Jim Turley ponders what life would be like if the principles behind open source software were to be applied to hardware, in this article for Embedded Systems Programming . . . (more…)

Atlanta, GA; Supercomm 2002 — (press release excerpt) — Infineon Technologies today introduced the EasyPort broadband communications processor family. Based on a powerful 64-bit CPU core subsystem and featuring extensive packet and ATM cell processing functionality, EasyPort provides the compute power and flexibility for data and voice/data Integrated Access Device (IAD) systems, small and medium… (more…)

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LynxOS v4.0, the newest release of the POSIX-conformant hard real-time operating system (RTOS), has support for Linux ABI compatibility — where Linux application binaries can run unchanged in the LynxOS environment without necessitating source code recompilation. (more…)

O'Reilly editor Andy Oram offers his perspective on ADEOS in this online article at the O'Reilly Network . . . (more…)

By Rick Lehrbaum, LinuxDevices.com Executive Editor . . .

[Updated June 3, 2002, 10:30am PDT] (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — IDT (Integrated Device Technology, Inc.) and Jungo Software Technologies, Inc. today announced the availability of a jointly developed platform for wireless LAN, and SOHO and residential gateways. The platform is based on the combination of Jungo's OpenRG Linux-based software stack and IDT's RC32334 integrated communications processor. (more…)

The following is an excerpt of a press release jointly issued by: Philippe Gerum (FR); Karim Yaghmour (CA); Paolo Mantegazza (IT); ABUL (FR); AEL (BE);… (more…)

By Rick Lehrbaum, Executive Editor of LinuxDevices.com . . .

LynuxWorks has raised $4 million in “bridge funding” and is in negotiations with venture companies for additional funding, according to an announcement to be issued later today. The company has also successfully achieved quarter-over-quarter growth for the final two quarters of its fiscal year, which ended April 30, 2002. (more…)

[Note: This article appeared initially on the linux-kernel mailing list (LKML)]

We have released the initial implementation of the Adeos nanokernel. The following is a complete description of its background, its implementation, its API, and its potential uses. (more…)

Olching, Germany — (press release excerpt) — DENX Software Engineering today announced the first release of a new Embedded Linux Development Kit (ELDK). Our ELDK provides a complete and powerful software development environment for Embedded and Real-Time Systems: (more…)

David Coursey provides an easy-to-understand comparison of Bluetooth vs. WiFi in this article at ZDNet. Coursey offers observations on the two competing wireless standards, and predicts where each will most likely be used in consumer devices . . . (more…)

An announcement from the WISP-Dist project . . .

The WISP-Dist project is pleased to announce its first public release. “WISP-Dist” is a modular embedded Linux distribution for wireless routers, but can be used for other purposes as well. The entire system fits in 8MB flash / 16MB RAM. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com technical editor Jerry Epplin gives his impressions of the latest major book on the subject of using Linux in embedded systems and smart devices: Craig Hollabaugh's Embedded Linux — Hardware, Software, and Interfacing, published by Addison Wesley Professional (ISBN: 0672322269). (more…)

In this LinuxDevices.com whitepaper, Jorge Arellano Cid, the Dillo project's founder, maintainer, and lead developer, introduces the Embedded Linux community to the Dillo project. (more…)

First impressions

A system developer planning to use Linux for an embedded design is faced with a number of decisions, not the least of which is whether to use a packaged commercial Embedded Linux distribution or to devise a homebrew solution from the available free tools and components. (more…)