MontaVista Software announced the addition of IBM's latest device-oriented Java support, WebSphere Studio Device Developer (WSDD) 5.0, to its embedded Linux product line. (more…)

Samsung and Jungo jointly introduced a reference design that targets Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) manufacturers in the development of broadband gateways, routers, and DSL modems. (more…)

The PC/104 Embedded Consortium announced the winners of its first PC/104 Design Contest, at the Embedded Systems Conference today in San Francisco. The awards recognize engineers designing innovative systems and devices based on the consortium's PC/104 and PC/104-Plus standards. (more…)

InHand Electronics announced the immediate availability of the Elf3 platform based on the XScale PXA 255, running at up to 400MHz. The design is coupled with power management hardware and software technologies to extend battery life. (more…)

Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) show producer CMP Media presented the prestigious “Best of Show” award this evening to one of fourteen finalists which had been selected from among candidate applications submitted by the exhibitors at this week's ESC show in San Francisco. (more…)

Metrowerks announced the release of version 4 of its CodeWarrior Development Studio for Motorola's MCF5282 32-bit microcontroller, which boasts on-chip Ethernet LAN and Controller Area Network (CAN) fieldbus interfaces, along with 512KB of embedded Flash memory. (more…)

Tensilica announced today that its Xtensa microprocessor architecture now supports MontaVista's embedded Linux operating system. Xtensa offers a customizable processor core that targets high volume applications for datacom and telecom protocol processing, digital cameras, set-top boxes, office automation products, and wireless devices. (more…)

Sharp announced that its 200 MHz ARM922T-based 32-bit system-on-chip processor is now generally available. The Bluestreak processors offer high performance with low power consumption, and target mobile/multimedia, home/office automation, and industrial applications, Sharp said. (more…)

GDA Technologies has announced the release of its reference design kit for the new Motorola MPC8540 PowerQUICC III processor. It includes an embedded Linux board support package. (more…)

The open source “Matchbox” project announced a new release of the Matchbox X11 small footprint window manager and associated applications. Matchbox is designed specifically for resource-constrained X11-enabled devices such as handheld computers, PDA's, set-top boxes, and consumer devices where display size, storage, CPU bandwidth, and input mechanisms are limited, the group said. (more…)

Axis Communications unveiled a small, inexpensive Linux-based “device server” at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco today. The Axis 83 device server, which is based on the company's ETRAX 100LX multi-chip module, includes 16MB SDRAM and 6MB of… (more…)

LynuxWorks rolled out news versions of two of its embedded system development tools at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco today: version of 2.0 SpyKer, an embedded system trace tool; and version 5.0 of VisualLynux, a cross development tool which now enables BlueCat Linux and LynxOS RTOS application development using Microsft's new .NET products including Visual Studio .NET and Visual C++… (more…)

Vytek announced a Linux-based reference platform for developing what it calls “media gateways” — devices that combine the functionality of a TV set-top box and an Ethernet gateway. The reference platform is powered by an IBM PowerPC STB045XX system-on-chip processor running IBM's WebSphere Everywhere Embedded Software (WEES) middleware, and is supported by MontaVista Software's embedded Linux operating… (more…)

American Arium announced JTAG-based console and debug support for Linux-based embedded systems lacking serial or LAN connectivity. Arium's SourcePoint debugger provides ANSI terminal functionality using “debug communications channel” (DCC) commands over the target's JTAG port — a mechanism that works “straight from system reset,” the company said. (more…)

Mentor Graphics Corp. announced a USB software stack with a “Linux-like API” for its dual-role USB On-the-Go (OTG) controllers. The controllers, which are offered as hardware intellectual property (IP) for integration into custom chip designs, are said to support both the “USB host” and “USB function” capabilities of the USB OTG spec, including the ability to swap those roles dynamically. (more…)