Ampro Computers, Inc. today introduced the MIPS-based EnCore M3 which doubles I/O performance while reducing cost compared to an earlier model. Ampro combined the 400MHz MIPS32 Alchemy Au1500 chip from AMD which features an integrated 32-bit, 66MHz PCI bus interface, with its standard EnCore features to provide a complete standards-based CPU subsystem on a small form-factor module. (more…)

LWN.net reports that Linus Torvalds has merged the XFS file system into his development version of the Linux kernel. This means that it will become one of the filesystems supported in a future release of the kernel. (more…)

Toronto and Vancouver, Canada — (press release excerpt) — Arcturus Networks Inc. and Belcarra Technologies are teaming up to provide USB Remote NDIS (USB RNDIS) device support for next generation embedded Residential Gateway and CPE devices. Through the collaboration, Balcarra's USB support will be available for Arcturus' Residential Gateway firmware suites. (more…)

Planning to migrate an application from Solaris to Linux?

IBM has released PortingManager, a free tool that provides assistance when porting C and C++ Solaris applications to zSeries Linux. PortingManager scans a source code tree, looks for Solaris APIs, flags them, and provides documentation that is useful when porting the API from a Solaris-specific function call to an equivalent Linux function… (more…)

Boston, MA — (press release excerpt) — CMP Media today announced its 13th annual Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Boston to be held in the Hynes Convention Center, November 18-21, 2002. Featuring a robust technical program, ESC Boston provides a prime opportunity for design engineers, technical managers and developers to learn leading-edge techniques that address programming and real-time design… (more…)

Registration is now open for the October Meeting of the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum. This is being held in Cannes, France on October 15 – 17. The full agenda for the Cannes meeting follows: (more…)

San Francisco, CA — (press release excerpt) — The Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) and Extension Media, a publisher of custom media and marketing communication solutions, today announced an agreement to develop the first cross-vendor product catalog providing embedded developers with must-have data on development tools and applications that support Linux. (more…)

This two-part series from IBM developerWorks provides information about factors that must be considered during planning, designing, and even writing PHP code. The second artice, just released, shows you how to use variables effectively. It also shows how to make script configuration easy by constructing a configuration file parser using variable variable names in PHP. (more…)

An announcement from LinuxLinks.com . . .

The Zaurus SL-5500 PDA represents a new frontier. Here Linux is not an afterthought ported onto a windows platform — the Zaurus is a PDA that comes configured with Linux out of the box. And it's a good fit, Linux works well on relatively low spec machines like PDAs. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — LynuxWorks Inc. today announced that 4Front Technologies' Open Sound System (OSS) v3.9.7 software is available for LynuxWorks' LynuxOS 4.0 real-time operating system. The solution is the first integration of audio capabilities to LynxOS, further enhancing the feature set available to customers designing mission-critical embedded applications in a real-time… (more…)

Amsterdam; International Broadcasting Convention — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. today announced that MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 2.1 will support IBM's new STBx25xx integrated set-top box system-on-chip (SOC) controller chip for next-generation digital set-top boxes. (more…)

“Open's issue #35 examined the pitfalls and promise of embedded Linux. No sooner did [they] post that issue than [they] received a batch of letters either trumping up or trampling upon the embedded Linux market picture. Two particularly detailed responses [came] from two embedded-software insiders: Hank Cohen and Bill Weinberg stand on opposite sides of the issue. (more…)

Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corp. and Cyclone Microsystems today announced a partnership in which TimeSys Linux was named as the exclusive Linux distribution for Cyclone's CompactPCI Intelligent I/O Controllers. This partnership combines Cyclone's high bandwidth I/O controllers with TimeSys' enhanced performance Linux enabling designers to deliver complex solutions at reduced… (more…)

San Jose, CA; Intel Developer Forum — (press release excerpt) — Arcom Control Systems announced that it will produce, support and market a Telematics Multimedia Development Platform using Intel XScale technology based PXA250 processors. Telematics is a rapidly growing market segment for products providing multimedia 'infotainment,' wireless voice, mobile commerce, and network communications solutions… (more…)

San Jose, CA; Intel Developer Forum — (press release excerpt) — Arcom announced the forthcoming availability of its new PC/104 form factor Intel XScale based embedded processor board. The Viper board will be the world's first PC/104 single board computer to use Intel's 32-bit XScale application processor, the PXA250. (more…)