Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corp. and Cyclone Microsystems today announced a partnership in which TimeSys Linux was named as the exclusive Linux distribution for Cyclone's CompactPCI Intelligent I/O Controllers. This partnership combines Cyclone's high bandwidth I/O controllers with TimeSys' enhanced performance Linux enabling designers to deliver complex solutions at reduced… (more…)

San Jose, CA; Intel Developer Forum — (press release excerpt) — Arcom Control Systems announced that it will produce, support and market a Telematics Multimedia Development Platform using Intel XScale technology based PXA250 processors. Telematics is a rapidly growing market segment for products providing multimedia 'infotainment,' wireless voice, mobile commerce, and network communications solutions… (more…)

San Jose, CA; Intel Developer Forum — (press release excerpt) — Arcom announced the forthcoming availability of its new PC/104 form factor Intel XScale based embedded processor board. The Viper board will be the world's first PC/104 single board computer to use Intel's 32-bit XScale application processor, the PXA250. (more…)

Pittsboro, NC — (press release excerpt) — EMJ Embedded Systems introduced White Dwarf Linux version 1.2.0, its latest Linux revision, designed to fit in 10MB of Flash and 16MB of DRAM. (more…)

Euless, TX — (press release excerpt) — American Microsystems, Ltd. (AML) announced a new family of Linux-based wireless data collection products. AML's new wireless data collection products maximize flexibility, performance, and value in mobile data collection computing and are ideally suited for real-time, information-intensive applications in retail, distribution, warehousing, manufacturing, and… (more…)

In this guest column, RTC Magazine editor-in-chief Tom Williams notes that the Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) has now been replaced by programmable logic devices such as the Field Programmable Logic Array (FPGA), why this has occurred, and what are some of the consequences of this trend to embedded system development. (more…)

This brief technical article summarizes a project of porting RTLinux to the MIPS Atlas board with MIPS 4Kc core, in an effort to develop a suitable real-time environment for system-on-chip based applications such as multimedia and VoIP gateways, routers, etc. As part of the project, the team measured the response time of the real-time interrupts and the scheduler, and compared it to that of the standard… (more…)

In this guest column at LinuxDevices.com, the CEO of Mind NV explains how Mind has successfully become profitable while remaining a pure free and open source software based embedded development company. Peter Vandenabeele writes . . . (more…)

[Updated Sept. 11, 2002, 4:00 pm] This LinuxDevices.com 'special report' features selected stories and news of interest to the Embedded Linux community from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) conference held in San Jose, CA, Sept. (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Trolltech today announced the release of Qt 3.1 beta 1. This new version is particularly noteworthy because it gives developers and corporate IT professionals — for the first time — a way to gradually migrate from the limited world of Motif and MFC over to the single-source, multiplatform nirvana of Qt. (more…)

Writing at Salon, Farhad Manjoo reports on a new trend — developing applications for Mozilla, the 'platform' . . . (more…)

Introduction

The aim of this research project was to port RTLinux to the MIPS Atlas board with MIPS 4Kc core. We further intended to measure the response time of the real-time interrupts and the scheduler, and develop a suitable real-time environment for system-on-chip (SOC) based embedded applications such… (more…)

A seminar entitled “Secure, Legal and Cheap: The Benefits of Open Source Software” will take place on Sept. 17, 2002 from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm at the Barristers Club of the Bar Association of San Francisco. The speakers will be Holden Aust, Christian Einfeldt, and Josh Berkus. Here is a brief description of the content which will be covered . . . (more…)

This LinuxDevices.com article takes a look at a new 'home media gateway' design that was unveiled by Intel at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose, CA. The device is expected to be manufactured by multiple consumer electronics manufacturers in Asia, and will enable the distribution of PC digital media to TVs… (more…)

Irvine, CA and Toronto, Canada — (press release excerpt) — TransDimension Inc. and Arcturus Networks Inc. today announced a USB developer's platform for evaluating and designing in USB On-The-Go (OTG) host and function controllers. The partnership will combine the expertise of both Arcturus and TransDimension to provide a USB development solution for the Arcturus uCdimm microcontroller module. (more…)