Anyone wanting to get deeper into microcontroller based embedded system development may want to checkout these two online tutorials about designing with microcontrollers, from IBM developerWorks. The first tutorial presents an introduction to… (more…)

San Francisco, CA — (press release excerpt) — This year's Embedded Systems Conference Munich will take place at electronica 2002, the world's largest electronics trade show. The conference will enhance electronica's expected attendance of 80,000 engineers and technical managers and 3,000 exhibiting companies. (more…)

Atlanta, GA; Supercomm 2002 — (press release excerpt) — this week, Broadcom Corp. announced the industry's first single-chip high-performance DSL router solution for the customer premises equipment (CPE) market. (more…)

[Updated June 6, 2002] Hitachi has just released a new model of its Linux-based FLORA-ie wireless web pad. The device was initially launched in November 2000. (more…)

David Coursey, executive editor of the popular ZDNet AnchorDesk, investigates how to add functionality to the embedded Linux-based TiVo personal video recorder by hacking it . . . (more…)

CNET writer Paul Festa offers insight into Mozilla's road to release. Festa writes . . .

“More than four years after the launch of the Mozilla.org open-source project, Mozilla 1.0 is ready to browse.” (more…)

Mountain View, CA — (press release excerpt) — Mozilla.org, the organization that coordinates Mozilla open-source development and provides services to assist the Mozilla community, today announced the release of Mozilla 1.0, the first major-version public release of the Mozilla software. (more…)

Embedded software vendor LynuxWorks says the newest release of LynxOS, their proprietary real-time operating system (RTOS), has achieved Linux ABI compatibility — allowing unmodified Linux application binaries to run on LynxOS (without requiring recompilation). This whitepaper by Arun Subbarao, Director of Software Engineering for LynuxWorks, examines the architecture, technology, performance… (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Royal Philips Electronics today announced one of the semiconductor industry's first complete USB “On-The-Go” (OTG) system developers kits. Based on Philips OTG ICs, the kit simplifies addition of USB OTG to handheld and mobile devices using the Intel PXA250 applications processor with Intel XScale technology. (more…)

Atlanta, GA; Supercomm 2002 — (press release excerpt) — Telrad Connegy announced the CNS 3200e, a server-based LAN telephony system derived from the company's CNS 3200 Hosted Telephony System and i.Picasso 6000 IP telephone. The CNS 3200e is an applications-oriented LAN telephony system that scales without the limitations found on traditional and competitive systems. (more…)

Lincoln, MA — (press release excerpt) — Sleepycat Software announced today that its embedded open source XML data management engine, Berkeley DB XML, is scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of 2002. Berkeley DB XML will provide the first truly embedded, high performance XML database system. (more…)

An announcement from the OPIE team . . .

Being the first completely open source GUI platform for Linux-based PDAs, the Open Palmtop Integrated Environment (OPIE) presents its first official 0.9 release at this year's LinuxTag event being held June 6-9, 2002 in Karlsruhe, Germany. (more…)

Irvine, CA — (press release excerpt) — Broadcom Corporation today announced that it is sampling the BCM112x line of highly integrated, single-core MIPS64 processors. The new processors target high-volume, cost-sensitive segments within next generation networking, wireless communications, storage equipment, server/web appliance and printer/imaging markets. (more…)

New York, NY — (press release excerpt) — Wasabi Systems today announced the integration into the NetBSD source tree of support for Broadcom's BCM1250, the first product in Broadcom's SiByte new family of high-performance, low-power, highly-integrated processors for networking, wireless communications, storage, appliance, and imaging applications. (more…)

Atlanta, GA; Supercomm 2002 — (press release excerpt) — SSH Communications Security today announced an integrated VPN and firewall security toolkit optimized for network edge and network access devices. The new toolkit supports VxWorks, Nucleus, Linux, and NetBSD. (more…)