Santa Ana, CA — (press release excerpt) — REDSonic Inc. today announced its plans to release its RED-Builder 2.0 XE embedded Linux integrated development environment (IDE) on November 8, 2001. The RED-Builder IDE enables developers to efficiently customize, configure and build embedded devices and systems. (more…)

San Jose, CA; Microprocessor Forum — (press release excerpt) — National Semiconductor today unveiled a new Geode family of x86-based, highly integrated processors designed exclusively for information appliances. The new Geode GX2 family is targeted to information appliances such as thin clients, digital set-top boxes, residential gateways, and personal Internet access devices. (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. today announced that its High Availability Framework for Hard Hat Linux 2.0 is available immediately to customers. The High Availability Framework is second-generation software that provides a standards-based platform for fault-resilient systems. (more…)

Transmeta disclosed publicly for the first time today their plans for a highly integrated system-on-chip version of their code morphing Crusoe processor. The occasion for the announcement was the Microprocessor Forum being held this week in San Jose, CA. (more…)

Transitive Technologies Ltd. is demonstrating their Dynamite “CPU morphing” software this week at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, CA. The technology enables code written for one type of CPU to run on another type of CPU without being recompiled. (more…)

Half Moon Bay, CA — (press release excerpt) — OnCore Systems Corp. announced the OnCore Windows Cross Development Suite, a C/C++ development environment that allows developers working on systems running Microsoft's Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0 to develop and debug embedded applications for PowerPC and x86 targets based on the OnCore OS and OnCore's (more…)

Geneva, Switzerland — (press release excerpt) — STMicroelectronics has introduced a new System-on-Chip (SoC) device that combines a 32-bit SuperH microprocessor with high-performance graphics for next-generation set-top box, Internet, and interactive TV applications. (more…)

Version 2 of the Open RTLinux Patent License has now been posted by FSMLabs on their website. Quoting from the license . . . (more…)

This article by Richard Jennings is based on the contents of several chapters from the third edition of LabVIEW Graphical Programming (McGraw-Hill, New York, 2001; ISBN 0-07-137001-3), a book which he coauthored with Gary W. Johnson. In the article, Jennings introduces the embedded Linux tools and development methods used in the book in the hope that they may be useful to readers in their… (more…)

San Jose, CA; Microprocessor Forum — (press release excerpt) — Transitive Technologies and Alchemy Semiconductor today announced they are working together to enable application software written for ARM-based platforms to run on Alchemy's family of MIPS microprocessors and evaluation platforms. (more…)

San Jose, CA; Microprocessor Forum — (press release excerpt) — Altera Corporation today began production shipments of the first member of its ARM-based Excalibur embedded processor family. With today's announcement, Altera customers have access to the first general-purpose chip that combines programmable logic and… (more…)

San Jose, CA; Microprocessor Forum — (press release excerpt) — QuickLogic Corporation today announced the availability of the QuickMIPS ESP field programmable system-on-chip (SOC) family. For the first time, a high-performance processor has been integrated with fully characterized, application specific functionality and a field programmable fabric for flexibility and differentiation. (more…)

San Jose, CA; Microprocessor Forum — (press release excerpt) — MIPS Technologies, Inc. today announced a series of new enhancements to its popular MIPS32 and MIPS64 microprocessor RISC architectures. The new enhancements will increase processor efficiency and performance while cutting system power and costs in future implementations. (more…)

Oslo, Norway — (press release excerpt) — Trolltech is releasing the newest version of Qt, version 3.0, the multi-platform C++ Graphical User Interface Development framework. Qt provides users a software development environment they can use to create a single source tree that runs natively on Windows, Linux, Unix, Embedded Linux, and, for the first time, Mac OS X. (more…)

Chris Edwards of EE Times reports that Silaria Ltd., a developer of processor intellectual property, has ported uClinux to its Proteus 3 processor as part of its revised tool suite. Edwards writes . . . (more…)