You already knew you could use a Linux box to create your own “Internet radio” station that streams MP3s onto the 'net, right? But did you know you could turn your Linux system into a real radio transmitter, using nothing but the system's parallel port as the wireless media interface? (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Jungo announced the release of WinDriver and KernelDriver version 5.0 driver development tools. Jungo's driver development tools offer hardware access and driver code generation capabilities, through a rich API. (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Tri-Pacific Software Inc. announced a new partnership with Lineo Inc., through which Tri-Pacific has ported its timing and schedulability tool suite, RapidRMA, to Lineo's Embedded Linux platform in order to meet the increasing demand of real-time engineers for a robust solution for timing and schedulability. (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — LynuxWorks and Trolltech announced the availability of Trolltech's Qt/Embedded for LynuxWorks' BlueCat Linux. The new agreement bundles Qt/Embedded with LynuxWorks' BlueCat Linux. LynuxWorks will resell and offer professional services, as well as work with Trolltech to ensure that Qt/Embedded is fully supported. (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Elmic Systems announced the general availability in the United States of eVM, a new embedded system software product that provides easy connectivity with Linux source code. Co-developed with Openloop, Inc. of Japan, eVM has the same functionality as Sun Microsystems' K Virtual Machine (KVM), a highly-optimized Java virtual machine… (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — LynuxWorks announced the availability of a CodeWarrior Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Edition for Lynuxworks Development Tools for companies using Linux and Solaris host development environments and deploying on LynxOS and BlueCat Linux targets. (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — LynuxWorks announced a new release of BlueCat Linux with MIPS support. With the release of BlueCat Linux 3.1, LynuxWorks now claims the broadest microprocessor support for embedded Linux. Supported architectures now include MIPS, Intel's Pentium, XScale and x86 compatibles, ARM family (including Thumb extensions), StrongARM, PowerPC… (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Extended Systems announced that it has begun shipping Version 1.2.1 of XTNDAccess Blue SDK, a multi-purpose software development kit (SDK) for
implementing Bluetooth wireless protocols in handheld devices. XTNDAccess Blue SDK 1.2.1 is based on the recently released Bluetooth specification version 1.1. The software implements… (more…)

San Francisco, CA; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Microtronix and Altera Corporation announced the a Linux Development Kit (LDK) for Altera's Nios embedded processor core. The new kit gives designers using the Linux operating system access to Altera's leading programmable logic products, as well as Excalibur embedded processor “system-on-a-programmable-chip” (SOPC) solutions. (more…)

EE Times editor Charles J. Murray reports on last week's Embedded Linux Consortium at which the idea of an ELC Platform Specification was proposed and discussed. Murray writes . . . (more…)

penguinppc.org has a story by Mark Hatle about last week's Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco as seen from the PowerPC/Linux perspective. Hatle summarizes the Linux offerings he saw at ESC — especially the PowerPC based solutions — and offers a few opinions. Hatle writes . . . (more…)

Question: What happens when you combine one multimedia producer, one chemist-turned-programmer, and one technologist, add a healthy dose of Linux, and stir? (more…)

The ELC initiative for a unified open platform for embedded Linux (the ELC Platform Specification) is a watershed event for the embedded industry. One of the most tantalizing promises of Linux for this highly fragmented market is the possibility of a single, open, multi-vendor standard platform for embedded software. (more…)

In this guest editorial, Dr. Inder Singh, Chairman of LynuxWorks and Chairman of the Embedded Linux Consortium, explains the potential significance to the embedded market of the recently proposed ELC Platform Specification. Singh writes . . . (more…)

This is a copy of the slide presentation on the newly proposed ELC Platform Specification that was given by Dr. Inder Singh at the ELC's annual membership meeting on April 9, 2001. Singh is the Chairman of the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) and is also CEO of LynuxWorks. (more…)