San Jose, CA; Communications Design Conference — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software today announced Linux support for the SiByte BCM1250 processor, the first product in Broadcom's SiByte family of high performance, low power, and highly integrated processors. The BCM1250 is designed for use in both control plane and data plane applications across Local Area Network (LAN), Metropolitan Area… (more…)

Despite claims to the contrary, uClinux may well represent the world's first, most mature, and most commercially successful embedded Linux distribution. While other embedded distributions rely on upscale processors to get reasonable performance, uClinux uses solid code, a firm guiding hand, and actual product experience with deeply embedded systems. (more…)

In part 2 of a 3-part guest commentary at ZDNet, John Carroll chronicles the top reasons why he believes the .NET framework will emerge as the preeminent development paradigm . . . (more…)

Apache became the most popular Web server in part because of the rich availability of third-party extensions for the server, and because its open architecture made it quite easy to roll your own extensions. Of course, nothing is ever just easy enough, so in developing Apache 2.0, one of the main goals was to improve the Apache API to make it even easier to develop extensions. (more…)

Stockholm, Sweden — (press release excerpt) — Strategic Test Scandinavia AB announced the Triton, an embedded CPU module based on the Intel XScale PXA-250 CPU. The DIMM144 format (2.7 x 1.4 in.) module offers a choice of 300 MHz or 400 MHz processors, 32/64MB SRAM, 32MB Flash, and RedBoot firmware. (more…)

Introduction

This whitepaper provides a discussion of theory and methods for building uClinux systems that boot, run, and operate using Flash memory. The paper begins with a brief introduction to Flash memory technology, followed by a discussion of the different ways uClinux system components can be laid out in Flash. (more…)

This whitepaper, written by Greg Ungerer of SnapGear, provides a discussion of theory and methods for building uClinux systems that boot, run, and operate using Flash memory. The paper begins with a brief introduction to Flash memory technology, followed by a discussion of the different ways uClinux system components can be laid out in Flash. (more…)

Embedded systems guru Bill Gatliff announces courses on embedded Linux and embedded GNU . . . (more…)

The Real Time Linux Foundation announced the Fourth Real-Time Linux Workshop to be held Dec. 6-7, 2002 in Boston, MA . . . (more…)

In this technical article at LinuxDevices.com, the originator of YAFFS introduces the open source YAFFS flash file system, which he describes as “the only file system, under any operating system, that has been designed specifically for use with NAND flash”. Flash memory chips are commonly used in embedded systems and devices in place of much larger and more fragile hard drives, but they require special… (more…)

ZDNet (UK) interviewed Jason Matusow, program manager of the Shared Source Initiative at Microsoft. Matusow offers insight into why Microsoft decided to open up some of its source code, and explains what is meant by 'Shared Source', who can gain access to it (and how they do that), how much source is available for various Microsoft OSes (including CE .NET), and what additional applications and tools the… (more…)

Overview

YAFFS stands for 'yet another flash file system' (see footnote 1). As far as I am aware, YAFFS is the only file system, under any operating system, that has been designed specifically for use with NAND flash. YAFFS is thus designed to work within the constraints of, and exploit the features of, NAND flash to maximize performance. (more…)

The Embedded Reasoning Institute of the Sandia National Laboratories recently constructed a 4-node Linux cluster based on commodity PC/104 modules and other related components. The system was designed for use in parallel programming tutorials, demonstrations, and displays, and was showcased at the Supercomputing 2001 Conference (Denver, CO) and at the Embedded Systems Conference 2002 (San Francisco, CA). (more…)

Introduction

In the summer of 2001 an initiative named the “Embedded Reasoning Institute” took form at Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA. This initiative was a program for student interns involving design and implementation of systems by use of embedded systems components, wearable computers, and wireless technologies. (more…)

BusyBox maintainer Erik Andersen issued this brief announcement of the release of BusyBox version 0.60.4 . . . (more…)