MontaVista Software will add support to its embedded Linux operating systems for Intel's newly announced IXP42x network processors, according to a statement released at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose, CA this week. (more…)

MontaVista Software has validated the Hughes Software Systems (HSS) suite of telecom protocol stacks on the MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE), according to a statement issued by the two companies. The HSS stacks are said to support a broad spectrum of VoIP, Wireless, and Wireline protocols, including MAP, RANAP, and GTP-C/U. (more…)

Evans Data Corp. (EDC) asked over 400 software/hardware developers the question, “What is the most important consideration in selecting an embedded operating system?,” as part of its latest Embedded Systems Development Survey. Here's what they learned . . . (more…)

[Updated Mar. 4, 2003] — The Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) formally announced its release of the ELC Platform Specification (ELCPS) version 1.0 this week. The ELC describes its new embedded Linux standard as being “aimed at rallying the industry around a single Linux development standard for new embedded products,” and says “the specification delivers a unified open platform for embedded… (more…)

uCLinux is a derivative of the Linux 2.0 kernel that is intended for microcontrollers without memory management units (MMUs). uCLinux offers free, open-source code with no royalties; a small code footprint suitable for embedded and portable applications; a standard Linux API (with minor differences); high performance C libraries with a small footprint; and a variety of filesystems, including NFS, ext2,… (more…)

Wasabi Systems is developing a set of software components for developers of storage applications, according to a statement released this week at the Intel Developer Forum. (more…)

Intel has released version 3.0 of its Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) library, reports Semiconductor Business News. The routines support Pentium 4, Xeon, Itanium 2, and XScale-based processors, and work with Microsoft Windows and PocketPC, plus versions of Linux, according to the article. (more…)

Intrinsic Graphics Inc. has released Intrinsic Alchemy for Linux, a development and runtime environment that can be used to develop games for embedded Linux based devices. (more…)

PC BIOS pioneer Phoenix Technologies has introduced a software component, called Phoenix Core Managed Environment (CME), that is intended to help developers build essential applications and critical services into digital devices, making them “always protected and always accessible.” (more…)

MontaVista Software has added a ready-to-deploy version of Trolltech's Qtopia application environment to the recently launched MontaVista Linux Consumer Electronics Edition. (more…)

(PR excerpt) — At the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose, CA today, Intel announced new industry building blocks that bring the vision of the Digital Home closer to reality. Available immediately are Digital Home reference and concept platforms, and ten powerful UPnP tools that underscore Intel's support of the Digital Home vision. (more…)

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose, CA today, Intel disclosed performance capabilities and technical details for the upcoming Centrino mobile technology, described key technical features for the company's next generation desktop PC microprocessor (codenamed Prescott) and desktop chipsets, and highlighted several client device products based on XScale technology. (more…)

(PR excerpt) — LSI Logic Corp. today announced the availability of a complete Linux-based ADSL Ethernet reference design for developers of customer premises equipment (CPE). Building on its HomeBASE family of xDSL gateway products, LSI Logic has combined its proven ARM922-based HomeBASE chipset with a royalty-free Linux operating system to provide a reference design which offers a complete,… (more…)

Venture Development Corp. (VDC) forecasts that an emerging category of single-board computers (SBCs) which VDC calls “Computers-on-Modules” (“COMs”) will make a significant dent in the embedded computing market over the next several years. These devices are intended to be mounted upon, and to become integral parts of, carrier board systems or subsystems that require processing power in addition to… (more…)

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose, CA this week, a demonstration of InfiniBand interoperability from multiple vendors featured an Intel-led InfiniBand interoperability demonstration. The demonstration featured products from a number of InfiniBand vendors running the SourceForge-hosted open source InfiniBand software… (more…)