Lineo Solutions (Japan) has released a board support package (BSP) for Renesas Technology's SH4 2D graphics reference board (RTS7751R2D), targeting portable and car video players, wireless TV-phones, point-of-sales terms, and broadcasting systems for buildings, aircraft, and trains. (more…)

Embedded Linux and an open, hacker-friendly architecture power the world's first high definition media player, the $499 Roku HD1000. The brainchild of ReplayTV inventor Anthony Wood, the device could touch off a cottage industry of third-party applications and media packs that work with its Linux-based OS and user-friendly media… (more…)

Digital signal processing (DSP), software radio, and data acquisition system board vendor Pentek says it has released Linux drivers for two of its software radio boards, the first in a series of boards that will support Linux. (more…)

Mind has ported eCos to Xilinx's Virtex-II Pro FPGA with embedded IBM PowerPC core, using Xilinx's ML300 Evaluation Platform as the target hardware. Mind says the port takes advantage of Xilinx's ML300 drivers for the 10/100 Ethernet MAC (EMAC) core, LCD controller, UART, IRQ controller, GPIO, and access to a microdrive… (more…)

Updated May 23, 2005 — Wind River, the world's largest embedded software company, has embarked upon a strategic shift toward embedded Linux, beginning with an Oct. 3, 2003, tools announcement it called “Just the first step.” (more…)

Embedded software giant Wind River has signaled it may move away from its proprietary “Tornado” development tools platform, favoring Eclipse, an open technology platform for cross-vendor tools integration popular among embedded Linux developers, as the basis of its future tools products. (more…)

Embedded software giant Wind River announced today that it has joined the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and will participate in the Lab's Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) Working Group. The announcement continues the company's recent about-face on Linux, an operating system it historically (more…)

Roku calls its first product, the $499 HD1000, “the world's first high-definition digital media player.” The product displays content from memory cards or networked PCs on High Definition TVs (HDTVs) including LCD and Plasma TVs. The HD1000's open, Linux-based architecture makes it especially interesting to embedded hackers, and Roku encourages such use. (more…)