Rob Wehrli of Arizona Cooperative Power, LLC will be giving a demo of uClinux running on the new Hitachi H8S-2148AF platform in Hitachi's booth at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco this week, and has invited the LinuxDevices.com community to drop by for a demo and a free t-shirt (while they last). Here is his announcement . . .

As a note to people attending the Embedded Systems Conference this week at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California; I'll be demonstrating the cool, new Hitachi H8S-2148AF uClinux platform at the Hitachi booth #1214 South. This exciting platform features an 18.432MHz Hitachi H8S 16-bit microprocessor with 512KBytes of SRAM and 128KBytes of Hitachi's own on-chip flash called ZTAT.

I invite everyone interested in embedded Linux to stop by and take a moment to login on the demo platform for a view of what is coming from Hitachi with a new, especially designed for uClinux, board based on a 33MHz H8S-2674R. The new board, due out in May, will have 8MB of SDRAM, 4MB of Flash, RTC and 10Mbits/s Ethernet. The goal with this board is to make it easier for educators, students and companies to explore full-featured uClinux on the H8S without incurring a hefty equipment expense. End-user pricing for the new development platform is going to be set at just $199.

I hope to see embedded Linux become a front-running member of the embedded world as a result of being freely available and licensed under the GPL. 100% of the code used in the Hitachi uClinux development platform is freely available and GPLd. My belief is that open source will continue to attract new opportunities for companies, developers and product designers as a function of its ease of use and availability. I can not express enough how much more helpful it has been to create and evolve products from a foundation of complete system source code. Writing new code to support a closed system is like reinventing the wheel or creating your own “wheel store.” If you're not in the wheel business, spinning your own wheels is going to cost you money and waste your time working on non-business related objectives. I truly appreciate the focus gained by using the source.

BTW…everyone come by the Hitachi booth (#1214 South) and see me for a free uClinux t-shirt and penguin! I want everyone to know that free as in freedom *and* free as in t-shirts is a GOOD thing! :) I'll be there Wednesday to Friday this week to answer questions, give demonstrations and hand out cool, free uClinux stuff.

Take Care.

Rob!

 
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