A note to the LinuxDevices.com embedded Linux community from Rob Wehrli . . .

I've been traveling to various colleges and universities speaking on porting uClinux to Hitachi's H8S series of microprocessors. Tonight I'm speaking at Caltech (details) and I'll be at Portland State University next week ( target=”new”>details). So far I've been to places like the University of Cincinnati, Georgia Tech, and MIT. Next month, I'll be in Salt Lake City, UT and at Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. I provide free pizza and soft drinks along with door prizes provided by O'Reilly and Associates.

Hitachi (http://semiconductor.hitachi.com) designed a board especially for uClinux with 8MB of SDRAM, 4MB of flash, 10Mbits/s Ethernet, RS-232 Serial and a Real Time Clock and plenty of expansion capability. This board features a 33MHz H8S-2674R microprocessor and is quite the screamer! Hitachi recently completed production of 500 of these boards for adoption by the Linux community at a relatively inexpensive price of $199 per unit. I have several units to give away to developers who are interested in truly assisting in the port of uClinux to this fantastic platform. Interested developers should join our mailing list on SourceForge and check our primary website for details and code.

We need the help of developers and project maintainers from the web site to CVS in this 100% GPLd project. Hitachi has built the hardware for us and now it is time for us to show what we can do with it by supporting it with code!

Also, if anyone wants me to visit their Linux Users Group in the US, I'll be happy to consider it! I pay my own way and appreciate the opportunity to tell others about uClinux and embedded systems. Part of why I'm doing this is in support of my speaking engagement this coming April at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco on this topic. I've really learned a lot from the LUGs I've visited and their questions are certainly helping me prepare for this conference.

Take Care.

Rob Wehrli
Arizona Cooperative Power, LLC

 
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