The Dreambox DM7000 from Dream-Multimedia-Tv (DMM) is a $395 Linux-based digital radio and digital TV (DVB) satellite (or cable) receiver with digital video recorder (DVR) functions and PC connectivity. It is implemented using IBM's STB04500 set-top box chipset, which provides the necessary DVB functions like transport stream demultiplexing and MPEG2 decoding inexpensively. (more…)

When the ability to write and modify your own management software is the main objective, a custom-built wireless access point is the way to go. Take a look at what's involved in building a wireless bridge using Linux, including software and hardware considerations. (more…)

The UPSLink, from Sena Technologies, is a small device that enables the management of an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) on an open network. The device is accessed via Internet/SNMP protocols, to enable a smart UPS to be managed on the network by SNMP, a web client, or telnet. (more…)

Chris Lanfear and Steve Balacco of Venture Develpment Corporation (VDC) have published their perspective on Wind River's announcement of Linux tools support. VDC speculates that Wind's announcement signals a strategic shift for the largest embedded software company, but wonders how the embedded Linux developer community will react, given the company's historic anti-Linux stance. (more…)

Digital Pioneer has put embedded Linux to work inside an innovative, next-generation payment terminal for parking lots, to solve the problem of reliability, theft, vandalism, and weather damage — common (and potentially expensive) headaches with parking payment meters. (more…)

Digital home communications technologies specialist D-Link worked with Intel to build an innovative “Central Home Drive” that leverages an embedded Linux operating system and Universal Plug-n-Play (UPnP) technology to create a network-attached repository for shared multimedia files in the home that works in heterogeneous networks out of the box. (more…)

This whitepaper from Intrinsyc describes how engineers at IBM's Pervasive Computing Advanced Technology Laboratory created an embedded Linux based intelligent, high-level remote control system for a model airplane as a way to showcase Gateway Server technology. (more…)

What is the value proposition of an embedded operating system? That it is real-time? That it offers high-performance? That it is scalable? That it is reliable? That it is configurable? That it offers broad tool support? That it offers fast time-to-market? That it is well understood? That it is economical? Certainly these attributes are part of what is a longer list of features. (more…)

Despite the title of the report, EMF's “Total Cost of Development” study is really about using the author's TCD metric to compare the development efficiency of Windows Embedded and embedded Linux. (more…)

The Embedded Market Forecasters (EMF) report seems to make Microsoft look better than it is, but the report is not far wrong about the bloated costs of unmanaged embedded Linux projects. Embedded Linux is an outstanding value for well-managed projects. The software is flexible, powerful, reliable and resource-frugal. (more…)

Linux 2.6 introduces many new features that make it an excellent operating system for embedded computing. Among these new features are enhanced real-time performance, easier porting to new computers, support for large memory models, support for microcontrollers, and an improved I/O system. (more…)

“A simple way to think about the concept is to ask this question: What makes your PC your PC? The answer is that it's . . . the hard disk, which contains your data; the rest is simply the access device. Using the Personal Server concept, we're virtualizing the hard disk through a wireless connection to whatever computing device is nearby and available.” — Roy Want, Principal Engineer, Intel Corp. (more…)

Quorum Tools Ltd has shipped its first product, an elegant electronic group whiteboard for collaboration based on embedded Linux. (more…)

This article introduces a free online course in embedded Linux that author Richard A. Sevenich hopes could someday save students buying a textbook, enabling them to buy an inexpensive device instead and thereby gain hands-on embedded programming experience. (more…)

Updated Sep. 3, 2003 — Venture Development Corp. has reduced its five-year forecast for the growth of embedded Linux. The following adjustment to VDC's annual Linux report (2002 version available here) is reproduced with permission, as a service to the embedded Linux community. (more…)