[Updated 4pm PDT] — The Embedded Systems Conference is seeking 1- and 2-day programs for a 2-day Consumer Design seminar series during the 2005 Embedded Systems Conference, March 7-10 in San Francisco. The seminars will focus on design issues in emerging technology sectors including consumer, cellular, and networking. (more…)

LynuxWorks is shipping a Linux 2.6 board support package (BSP) for Intel-based 3U CompactPCI (cPCI) boards from Kontron. The BlueCat 5.0 BSP comprises development tools and kernel and drivers, including a revamped DiskOnChip driver. (more…)

ARM has added three products to its library of off-the-shelf intellectual property for processor development around the ARM11 core. The products together comprise a high-performance interconnect between the processor, cache, and system memory. They target use in consumer, wireless, and other devices. (more…)

The shape of the “digital home” of the near future is becoming steadily clearer, according to a finding issued today by market analyst ABI Research. Traditionally the prerogative of the successful hip-hop producer or sports star, home automation — integrating media and entertainment with communications and “smart” household appliances — is nearly ready for a wider market of upper middle-class… (more…)

Wiscore has introduced a Linux-based device for consumers interested in running their own Internet server. The Tenon incorporates email, web, and ftp servers, along with a broadband router, hub, and firewall — all in a small, low-power device featuring an embedded Linux architecture for high security. (more…)

PFU Systems has introduced Linux-ready system-on-modules (SoMs) that use the latest embedded processor chipsets from Intel. The Plug-N-Run G3 SoMs are available with Intel Pentium M 745 (Dothan) chips clocked between 1.3 and 1.8GHz, and target VoIP (voice over Internet protocol), VoD (video-on-demand), network storage,… (more…)

Advantech will use a new flash-based storage technology optimized for mobile devices from DiskOnChip originator M-Systems in its lines of RISC-based single-board computers (SBCs) and system-on-modules (SOMs). Advantech markets SBCs and SOMs running Linux and Windows CE to vertical markets in the wireless, mobile, and embedded sectors. (more…)

Arcom will integrate wide area network (WAN) cards from Sangoma into its series of environmentally hardened embedded Linux based communications appliances which target the power and utility industries. (more…)

Intel added three recently introduced chips to its embedded processor lineup this week. The three include two in the Pentium family — the Pentium M processor 745 (formerly code named “Dothan”), and the Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) Intel Celeron M processor — plus one in the XScale family, the PXA270. (more…)

This simple embedded Linux project builds a dedicated music recording and editing computer using a CompactFlash card instead of a hard drive, to eliminate hard disk chatter. It uses the latest release from the Agnula (GNU/Linux Audio) project, and the newest VIA Epia MII-12000 mini-ITX board. (more…)

This simple embedded Linux project builds a dedicated music recording and editing computer that uses a CompactFlash card instead of a hard drive, to eliminate hard disk chatter. The project is simple because it starts with an embedded Linux distribution: a “Live CD” released last week by the Agnula Project. (more…)

Phoenix Technology today launched a family of next-generation BIOS firmware aimed at increasing the security and manageability of PCs, notebooks, servers, embedded devices, and the networks that connect them. The company also launched a pre-boot environment, firmware development tools, and key application components providing advanced device-based authentication and encryption features. (more…)

Intel said today that it plans to release the “Foundation code” of its next-generation firmware technology — a successor to the PC BIOS — under the Common Public License (CPL), an open source license, later this year. More than 20 years old, the BIOS (Basic Input-Output System) is the oldest software technology in PC platforms. (more…)

Jungo Software has added PowerPC driver capabilities to its cross-platform development tools for Linux. WinDriver is a graphical tool that creates user-space drivers that are portable across a number of OSes. WinDriver supports building drivers for USB as well as various PCI implementations, including CardBus, ISA, PMC, PCI-X, and CompactPCI. (more…)

AMD is now shipping a reference design kit (RDK) for thin clients based on its low-powered Geode GX processor. The RDK includes hardware and drivers for Linux and other embedded operating systems, and targets corporate thin clients, terminal-in-blade PCs, point-of-sale, education, information appliances,… (more…)