Embedded Planet has announced a family of PowerPC-based AMCs (advanced mezzanine cards) and an AdvancedTCA (ATCA) carrier board. The “AMC Platform” product family will support RapidIO or gigabit Ethernet backplanes, and work under Linux and other popular embedded OSes in standards-compliant wireline and wireless… (more…)

Texas Instruments (TI) has published an 18-minute videocast about programming its DaVinci RISC/DSP chips using Green Hills Software's (GHS) “Multi” IDE (integrated development environment). Used with a hardware JTAG probe, Multi permits simultaneous OS-aware debugging of Linux and DSP BIOS executives running on the DaVinci chips, GHS says. (more…)

Worldwide PDA shipments during the second quarter of 2006 reached the highest second-quarter level on record, Gartner reports. Total shipments were 3.7 million units, a 2.7 percent increase from Q2 of 2005; however, end-user revenue fell by 4.1 percent to $1.38 billion, reflecting a lower average selling price. (more…)

GE Fanuc Embedded Systems is shipping a 6U CompactPCI SBC (single-board computer) powered by a Freescale 1GHz MPC7447A or 1.4GHz MPC7448 PowerPC processor. The “C2K” features flexible I/O expansion, the company says, and is available with Linux in standard or ruggedized, conduction-cooled versions. (more…)

Italian developer Fulvio Ricciardi has produced a GPL-licensed x86 Linux router distribution available as a live CD or bootable CompactFlash (512MB) image. The ZeroShell Net Services distribution includes a Web-based configuration interface, and can provide “the main network services a LAN requires,” Ricciardi… (more…)

A small Canadian company is taking orders for a mobile robot that runs Linux, and is based on standard, modular PC components, interfaces, and bays — sort of a PC on motorized wheels. WhiteBox Robotics says its 914 PC-Bot “does everything a PC does,” with the added capability of mobility. (more…)

Access hopes to win 30 percent of the market for mobile device operating systems by 2010, according to Tomihisa Kamada, chief technical officer and co-founder, as quoted by the International Herald Tribune last week. The company's share is currently four percent, thanks to its acquisition of PalmSource. (more…)

Netgear used Linux and a MIPS32-based Cavium SoC with integrated security processing to build an SSL VPN server aimed at small- and mid-sized businesses. The ProSafe SSL VPN Concentrator uses SSL tunnels, rather than IPsec, to offer secure, browser-based access for up to 25 concurrent users, Netgear… (more…)

FSMLabs has hired Dr. C. Douglass Locke to help expand its presence in the aerospace and defense (A&D) market. The former Lockheed-Martin Chief Scientist and former TimeSys VP of Technology will serve as consulting engineer, while his consulting company will join FSMLabs's third-party integrator network. (more…)

[Updated 12:30] — Startup a la Mobile says its Linux-based mobile phone stack is available now for customer evaluation. The “Convergent Linux Platform” (CLP) is touted as the “first complete and configurable OS for mobile phones.” It will be demonstrated at the LinuxWorld Expo next week in San Francisco. (more…)

LinkGear is shipping a small form-factor, ultra-low-power network appliance device that comes preinstalled with Linux, and targets WiFi bridging and routing applications. The LinkGear Series 100 (LG100) is powered by an SH-4 (SuperH) processor, draws only two Watts (typical), and costs $200 in quantities of 25+, the… (more…)

Acrosser is shipping a pair of networking appliances that support Linux 6.5 and above, and feature “LAN bypass.” The AR-M9936 is a compact, fanless “micro box” powered by a Celeron 600, while the AR-M9942 is a 1U rackmount design supporting Pentium M CPUs up to 2GHz. (more…)

IBM has published the following new technical articles, tutorials, and downloads on its DeveloperWorks website. They cover a range of interesting (though not necessarily embedded) technical topics, primarily related to Linux and open source system development. Some require free registration. Enjoy . . . ! (more…)

AR Infotek is shipping a Linux-powered, high-performance, EM64T-based, server-appliance targeting core, access, and carrier network security applications. The Teac 5052 features removable LAN “modules” supporting a variety of fiber and copper transports, Linux drivers for LAN pass-by and other functions, and redundant… (more…)

DoGav Systems will soon ship two new microcode products for Freescale PowerQUICC processors. One implements “System Fabric Plane” (SFP.1) protocol, described as a “multiplexed voice-over-packet protocol” that supports higher densities than VoIP. The other implements “Generic Framing Protocol” (GFP), said to offer lower latency and greater bandwidth determinism than HDLC (high-level data link control). (more…)