Today's trends in Control Engineering and Computer Engineering are blending gradually into a slightly challenging area, the improvement of Real-Time implementations. Applications should timely deliver synchronized data-sets, minimize latency and jitter in their response and by using an efficient scheduling algorithm to be able to determine various system resources to meet optimal allocation and their… (more…)

In this paper, an RTAI-Linux based distributed platform for the control of the PUMA 560 robotic manipulator is presented. From the mechanical point of view, the PUMA 560, besides being one of the first and most popular 6-DOF anthropomorphic manipulator, is still a very good example of implementation of small size robotic arms. (more…)

A brand new embedded Linux software company has just joined the growing number of Asian companies that are embedding Linux within consumer Internet and information appliances. Timed to coincide with last week's Comdex extravaganza, Taiwan-based Esfia unleashed a volley of product and technology announcements and launched its new website. (more…)

Gateway's new Linux-based Connected Touch Pad was the recipient of this year's “Best of Comdex” (Fall, 2000) award in the Consumer Product division. The winners are chosen by a team of editors from CNET and ZDNet. Here's what the editors said about the product . . . (more…)

Cyclades has announced a new terminal and console access server in a 1U rackmount form-factor that uses MontaVista Software's Hard Hat Linux as its embedded operating system. The TS2000 can be used by ISPs, ASPs, and e-retailers to manage, remotely and securely, serial console ports in server farms. (more…)

Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corp. and GoAhead Software today announced a software solution enabling advanced reliability for complex telecom and Internet systems. As part of this agreement, TimeSys will also be joining the GoAhead Integration Alliance (GIA), becoming part of a network of companies banding together to develop new levels of service availability for Internet… (more…)

Last month, we reported on the Axis contest for project proposals based on their ETRAX system-on-chip device . . .

Want to win a free development board with the Axis ETRAX system-on-chip and a full port of embedded Linux? Axis has announced a contest which will award five of their “developer boards” to “the five… (more…)

eWEEK's Peter Galli reports that government officials throughout the world are increasingly supporting Linux and other open source software. Galli writes . . . (more…)

Houston, TX — (press release excerpt) — Texas Instruments (TI) has entered into an agreement with Jungo Software Technologies Inc. to support Jungo's Linux residential gateway software on TI's broadband cable modems. The two companies will demonstrate this technology at the upcoming California Cable Television Association's Western Show later this month. (more…)

uClinux can apparently be mixed together with real-time add-ons such as RTLinux and RTAI, as indicated by a message at realtimelinux.org. The message says: “Phil Wilshire has taken Kwonsk's uClinux/RTL patches up to a later revision of uCLinux. This allows users with the newer [uCSimms] (with the network hardware byteswap) to use the RTL patches.” (more…)

Milpitas, CA — (press release excerpt) — Sigma Designs, a specialist in digital video decoder solutions, announced today that their MPEG technology is a key part of the new National Geode SP1SC10 Set-Top Box reference platform. Sigma is providing their EM8400 MPEG decoder chip and software, which forms the basis for the platform's video delivery from digital TV broadcast, Video-On-Demand streaming, and… (more…)

Sally Bixby of the RTC Group writes . . .

Since the Hands-on Embedded Linux Development Workshop in Westborough, MA (Oct. 27th) was sold out, I lined up a second workshop for December 4th (same place, agenda, etc.). Here are the details: (more…)

As a result of the recent explosion in email spam, LinuxDevices.com has been deluged with unwanted emails. Consequently, we have been compelled to discontinue the practice of providing clickable links for contacting our staff. (more…)

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You might call Neoware a company on a mission. One of many companies struggling to carve out a profitable niche for itself in the market of selling Linux-based products, Neoware has tuned its efforts to what CEO Mike Kantrowitz dubs “Appliance Computing.” (more…)