Texas Instruments (TI) and MontaVista Software announced that they are collaborating to provide embedded Linux support for OEMs using TI's OMAP application processors. According to TI, the OMAP processors target a broad range of Internet- and multimedia-enabled consumer, business, and industrial applications including 2.5G/3G handsets, specialized PDAs, telematics, biometrics, and gaming systems and… (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — LynuxWorks today announced an agreement to obtain Rockwell Collins' Virtual Machine Operating System (VMOS) technology and plans to launch a new DO-178B level A certifiable version of LynxOS, LynuxWorks' POSIX-compatible real-time operating system (RTOS). (more…)

Chelmsford, MA — (press release excerpt) — Axis Communications today announced the general availability of the ETRAX 100LX MCM 2+8, a new generation system-on-chip that combines the monolothic ETRAX 100LX highly integrated RISC processor based system-on-chip along with 2MB Flash, 8MB SDRAM, and an Ethernet… (more…)

In this brief, nontechnical article at WEEK, Timothy Dyck summarizes several key performance enhancements coming to Linux as a result of the next major kernel release (vers. 2.6), which is anticipated in mid-2003. The areas covered by Dyck's article include improvements in kernel preemption and latency, block I/O, memory and disk management algorithms, security, and system administration. (more…)

Virtio Corporation announced an evaluation and development environment for system-on-chip (SOC) platforms based upon MIPS32 and MIPS64 processor cores. Co-developed by Virtio and MIPS Technologies, the tool will help engineers conduct hands-on evaluations of real time operating systems (RTOSes), tool chains, and software on a virtual Malta Development Board. (more…)

LynuxWorks today launched a new pricing model intended to make LynxOS, the company's real-time operating system (RTOS), compete more effectively for design wins in low-cost consumer device applications. Simultaneously, a new source code availability and toolset bundle was announced. (more…)

Seattle — (press release excerpt) — RealNetworks, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK) today announced the Helix DNA Producer source code is now available to software developers through the Helix Community. Helix DNA Producer is the core source code of RealNetworks' Helix Producer, which thousands of content creators already use to create RealAudio and… (more…)

In this brief, self-published article, Anthony Barker offers a few suggestions to software developers who are newcomers to Linux, especially in the area of selecting among the available GUI technologies. (Note: Embedded GUI technologies are not discussed.) Barker writes . . . (more…)

Jerry Cooperstein discusses recent advancements in Linux threading implementations in this technical article from the O'Reilly Linux DevCenter . . . (more…)

This do-it-yourself article by Russell Pavlicek explains how to build a TiVO-like Linux-based TV time-shifting box — the perfect project for those snowy Winter weekends. All you need are some inexpensive hardware (PC motherboard, video capture card, VGA-to-TV converter, memory, hard drive, remote control), Linux, and a sense of adventure. (more…)

SashXB extends JavaScript with objects that wrap native functionality — and provides all the necessary tools for writing applications from scratch. In this article at IBM's developerWorks website, the developers of SashXB explore its inner workings and demonstrate how SashXB simplifies the development, download, and installation of applications. (more…)

This article at Business 2.0 magazine provides background and perspective on Mono, an open source project (led by Miguel de Icaza of Ximian Inc.) to create a GPL, Linux-compatible alternative to Microsoft's .NET Framework. Erick Schonfeld writes . . . (more…)

In this column at Embedded.com, EE Times editor Bernard Cole examines the significance of recent announcements by Wind River and Green Hills regarding vertical market software bundles for the embedded systems market, comparing it to the importance of… (more…)

This article at LinuxDevices.com introduces the Terapin “mine” — a hand-held, Internet-enabled, personal data storage and record/playback device. The PowerPC and Linux powered device's built-in 10 GB HDD can hold thousands of digital photographs and audio tracks, plus lots of other data. (more…)

In a major milestone toward their plan to fabricate a complete “system on a panel,” Sharp and Semiconductor Energy Laboratory (SEL) report they've successfully integrated an 8-bit Z80 microcontroller onto a liquid-crystal-display glass substrate. (more…)