Freescale Semiconductor is showcasing Linux-based AdvancedTCA designs at its developer event in Orlando this week. Freescale's Open AdvancedTCA Development Platform includes reference designs for an AdvancedTCA blade and Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) supporting Serial RapidIO and Ethernet backplanes, and a “DSP farm module” AMC based on an eight-way StarCore DSP. (more…)

Artesyn is sampling an AdvancedTCA blade and a ProcessorPMC mezzanine card based on Freescale's fastest PowerPC chip. The KatanaQp blade features dual MPC7448 processors, while the PmPPC7448 card runs a single MPC7448. Both boards support Wind River's Carrier Grade Linux and VxWorks, and target telecom equipment. (more…)

Wind River says it has partnered with Freescale's network processor group to ensure that its embedded Linux tools and vertical market platforms support Freescale's latest PowerPC and PowerQUICC processors. Wind River's Carrier Grade Linux offering, Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition, supports a Freescale PowerPC-based AdvancedTCA platform from Artesyn Technologies. (more…)

IBM-built machines accounted for over half the listings on this year's TOP500 supercomputer rankings. IBM's BlueGene/L supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory earned the top spot on the list, followed by a similar BlueGene machine at IBM's own Watson Research Center in New York. (more…)

Encirq is shipping telematics tools that support embedded Linux on Freescale's MPC5200 processor. The Encirq Data Foundation Framework generates ANSI C code from high-level scripts, and includes cross-platform target libraries supporting Linux and other embedded OSes. It targets telematics control units, driver information and navigation systems, and instrument cluster control. (more…)

TimeSys has launched new network-based embedded Linux tools and services for companies designing with Freescale processors, a group it says includes numerous large aerospace, military, industrial, and enterprise customers. The Freescale Linux Component Repository includes kernel patches, drivers, updates for processor revisions, Linux source and binary packages, and reference distributions. (more…)

Capricorn Technologies says it has completed delivery of more than a petabyte of storage to the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization based in San Francisco that creates periodic snapshots of the Internet. Capricorn's PetaBox products are based on Via mini-ITX boards running Debian or Fedora Linux, (more…)

EmbWise has ported its embedded SDIO Linux stack to MontaVista Linux CEE (consumer electronics edition) running on Intel's newest mobile multimedia processor, the XScale PXA270 (Bulverde). Additionally, the Chennai, India based startup has joined MontaVista's third-party partner network, it says. (more…)

Linux is the star of embedded, according to an introductory feature at Design News. Once viewed skeptically by industry pragmatists, embedded Linux has been ported to every embedded processor and is considered for every embedded project. However, embedded Linux adopters may face unanticipated challenges, according to the Design News article. (more…)

[Updated June 22, 2005] — Nokia's 770 Internet Tablet is well-conceived as a single-purpose device for web and email, but may be too sluggish to achieve widespread success, according to a reviewer at InformationWeek who got the chance to play with a prototype for an hour. (more…)

Installing Linux on your iPod lets you record high-quality audio or play games, easily returning to the stock environment to listen to music, according to Macworld. iPod Linux is simple to install on all but the newest iPod models, and requires only 5MB of disk space. (more…)

Mobile phones with cellular and WiFi radios are the future, according to ABI Research. VoWiFi (voice-over-WiFi) is cheaper and works better indoors, while creating revenue opportunities for carriers, ABI says. Linux powers several available VoWiFi phones and carrier switches. (more…)

Arabella Software is demonstrating Linux software and microcode for Freescale NPUs (network processing units) at Freescale's developer event in Orlando this week. The EFP (expedited fast path) products target Linux-based networking and triple-play (voice-video-data) devices built with Freescale chips having integrated network acceleration engines. (more…)

Coraid is shipping a smaller version of its innovative SAN (storage-attached network) device for Linux servers. The 1U EtherDrive uses the open ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) protocol, supports up to four user-installed SATA disks, and can be set up in a variety of RAID configurations. (more…)

Freescale will demonstrate a pin-compatible die-shrink of its MPC7447A embedded processor at its developer conference in Orlando, Fla. this week. The PowerPC MPC7448 uses Freescale's 90nm SOI (silicon-on-insulator) CMOS process, said to reduce power while increasing clock and bus speeds. MPC74xx family processors appear in G4 Apple Macintoshes, (more…)