Santa Ana, CA — (press release excerpt) — REDSonic Inc. today announced its plans to release its RED-Builder 2.0 XE embedded Linux integrated development environment (IDE) on November 8, 2001. The RED-Builder IDE enables developers to efficiently customize, configure and build embedded devices and systems. (more…)

Geneva, Switzerland — (press release excerpt) — STMicroelectronics has introduced a new System-on-Chip (SoC) device that combines a 32-bit SuperH microprocessor with high-performance graphics for next-generation set-top box, Internet, and interactive TV applications. (more…)

Half Moon Bay, CA — (press release excerpt) — OnCore Systems Corp. announced the OnCore Windows Cross Development Suite, a C/C++ development environment that allows developers working on systems running Microsoft's Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0 to develop and debug embedded applications for PowerPC and x86 targets based on the OnCore OS and OnCore's (more…)

Transitive Technologies Ltd. is demonstrating their Dynamite “CPU morphing” software this week at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, CA. The technology enables code written for one type of CPU to run on another type of CPU without being recompiled. (more…)

Transmeta disclosed publicly for the first time today their plans for a highly integrated system-on-chip version of their code morphing Crusoe processor. The occasion for the announcement was the Microprocessor Forum being held this week in San Jose, CA. (more…)

Version 2 of the Open RTLinux Patent License has now been posted by FSMLabs on their website. Quoting from the license . . . (more…)

San Jose, CA; Microprocessor Forum — (press release excerpt) — MIPS Technologies, Inc. today announced a series of new enhancements to its popular MIPS32 and MIPS64 microprocessor RISC architectures. The new enhancements will increase processor efficiency and performance while cutting system power and costs in future implementations. (more…)

San Jose, CA; Microprocessor Forum — (press release excerpt) — QuickLogic Corporation today announced the availability of the QuickMIPS ESP field programmable system-on-chip (SOC) family. For the first time, a high-performance processor has been integrated with fully characterized, application specific functionality and a field programmable fabric for flexibility and differentiation. (more…)

San Jose, CA; Microprocessor Forum — (press release excerpt) — Altera Corporation today began production shipments of the first member of its ARM-based Excalibur embedded processor family. With today's announcement, Altera customers have access to the first general-purpose chip that combines programmable logic and… (more…)

San Jose, CA; Microprocessor Forum — (press release excerpt) — Transitive Technologies and Alchemy Semiconductor today announced they are working together to enable application software written for ARM-based platforms to run on Alchemy's family of MIPS microprocessors and evaluation platforms. (more…)

This article by Richard Jennings is based on the contents of several chapters from the third edition of LabVIEW Graphical Programming (McGraw-Hill, New York, 2001; ISBN 0-07-137001-3), a book which he coauthored with Gary W. Johnson. In the article, Jennings introduces the embedded Linux tools and development methods used in the book in the hope that they may be useful to readers in their… (more…)

Chris Edwards of EE Times reports that Silaria Ltd., a developer of processor intellectual property, has ported uClinux to its Proteus 3 processor as part of its revised tool suite. Edwards writes . . . (more…)

Oslo, Norway — (press release excerpt) — Trolltech is releasing the newest version of Qt, version 3.0, the multi-platform C++ Graphical User Interface Development framework. Qt provides users a software development environment they can use to create a single source tree that runs natively on Windows, Linux, Unix, Embedded Linux, and, for the first time, Mac OS X. (more…)

Introduction

Developing embedded systems with Linux can sometimes be a slow and painful task, especially for a beginner. The major Linux distributions want to fill up your hard drive with software you won't need on a small embeddable system, and the small freely downloadable “Linux-on-a-floppy” type distro's seem to be customized for specific applications like network routers. (more…)

Berkeley, CA — (press release excerpt) — In response to an uncertain political climate and the recent economic downturn, the USENIX Association and the Atlanta Linux Showcase, Inc. jointly announced today that they will offer free registration to everyone wishing to attend technical sessions at next month's Annual Linux Showcase & Conference in Oakland, California. (more…)