Dedicated Systems e-Spotlight: Vol 9, Issue 30s published on July 31, 2008
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SYSGO AG
Flight Management System will run on SYSGO´s PikeOS in the DIANA project
Paris, Mainz, July 17, 2008
SYSGO, leading supplier of software solutions for the world´s most demanding safety and security applications, today announced that their PikeOS safe and secure virtualization platfor...
DIANA stands for Distributed, equipment Independent environment for Advanced avioNics Applications. It is an avionics R&D project funded by the European Commission´s 6th Framework Programme and led by Skysoft, Portugal. The purpose of DIANA project is to define an advanced platform, called AIDA (Architecture for Independent Distributed Avionics), supporting execution of object-oriented applications over virtual machines and secure distribution services. The development process for the new platform will be based on the OMG standard Model Driven Engineering (MDE).
"We were looking for ARINC-653 compliant RTOS," said Tobias Schoofs, DIANA project leader at Skysoft. "PikeOS was like an obvious choice to us. Not only it has successfully passed our ARINC-653 Part 3 Verification Too...
Date : Jul 17, 2008
SPOTLIGHT SELECTION
This is the spotlight edition of our e-gazette. You can still find all submitted announcements on our website.
Boards
Eurotech Ltd
Eurotech's new Low Power ISIS & PROTEUS using the IntelŪ AtomT processor.
Eurotech has been working with Intel Corporation as an early adopter of the Low Power IntelŪ Architecture (LPIA). As a result of this work Eurotech will be offering the ISIS and PROTEUS products later this year....
Eurotech has been working with Intel Corporation as an early adopter of the Low Power IntelŪ Architecture (LPIA). As a result of this work Eurotech Ltd will be offering the ISIS and PROTEUS products later this year.
ISIS is a PC/104+ single board computer and PROTEUS is available as a standalone or COM-Express module. Both harness the low power capabilities of the IntelŪ AtomT next generation chipset but also offer x86 compatibility in a fan-less design. Both the ISIS and the PROTEUS offer the level of functionality and performance you would traditionally expect from a high performance x86 board, but at reduced power consumption of less than 5 watts.
A key feature of the ISIS and the PROTEUS is their full compatibility with a wide range of operating systems that include ...
Date: Jul 31, 2008
ELMA Electronic Inc.
Bustronic upgrades its 5-Slot ATCA backplane
Elma Bustronic Corporation, an industry leading designer and manufacturer of high performance backplanes has upgraded its 5-slot AdvancedTCA Backplane with a new shelf manager interconnect scheme....
Elma Bustronic Corporation, an industry leading designer and manufacturer of high performance backplanes has upgraded its 5-slot AdvancedTCA Backplane with a new shelf manager interconnect scheme.
The upgraded 5-slot ATCA backplane now features standard MicroTCA connectors, which are small and dense, for the Elma´s IPM Sentry shelf manager connections. In addition to saving space, the connectors are widely available, reliable, and with compression mount design are field-replacable. If damaged, the MicroTCA connector can be unscrewed from the backplane and replaced.
The 5-slot ATCA backplane features a 3x replicated Mesh topology, although a standard Full Mesh or even Dual Star can be implemented. The backplane has 18 layers and is optimized for performance via ...
Date: Jul 25, 2008
Industry News (Market)
SDC Systems
SDC Systems Goes That Extra Embedded Engineering Mile
SDC Systems launches 'SDC Professional Services', a UK new UK based facility that is geared towards integrating their leading embedded technologies into their customer´s development environment and the embed...
European embedded systems distributor SDC Systems has announced the launch of SDC Professional Services, a new facility that is geared towards integrating their leading technologies into their customer´s development environment and the embedded applications that they are developing.
The new Professional Services department will be managed by Andy Pont, a highly qualified and well respected engineer who has a wealth of real world experience, working with such technologies as embedded BIOS, embedded Linux, Windows CE, GUI development, software analysis tools and software-hardware integration.
Over the past 5 years SDC Systems has established itself as a leading source of innovative and powerful embedded development tools and technologies. Its broad range of products i...
Date: Jul 31, 2008
Dolomite Microfluidics
Dolomite Multi-Layer Microfluidic Fabrication Wins International Acclaim
Dolomite succeededs in the development and fabrication of large-scale multi-layer microfluidic devices enabling instrument manufacturers to develop smaller, more cost-effective and more powerful systems....
Royston based microfluidic company, Dolomite, has announced that they have recently succeeded in the development and fabrication of large-scale multi-layer microfluidic devices and that they are currently in discussion with several international companies interested in the exciting opportunities that this new microfluidic technology offers.
Dolomite has become a recognised world leader in the field of Microfluidics, a technology also known as `lab on a chip'. It is an exciting new field of science and engineering that enables very small-scale fluid control and analysis, allowing instrument manufacturers to develop smaller, more cost-effective and more powerful systems. With lab-on-a-chip technology, entire complex chemical or biological management and analysis systems are...
Date: Jul 31, 2008
VMETRO
VMETRO´s VMDRIVE increases capacity and media options
VMETRO, a leader in high-speed data recording systems and rugged storage devices, today announced the availability of additional new storage alternatives for its VMDRIVE. Available since January 2007, the VMDRIVE 6U VME/...
VMETRO, a leader in high-speed data recording systems and rugged storage devices, today announced the availability of additional new storage alternatives for its VMDRIVE. Available since January 2007, the VMDRIVE 6U VME/cPCI slot storage products now include rotating media options as well as several larger capacity solid-state storage options. Designed to meet demanding military and aerospace applications, the VMDRIVE enables deployment of recording applications in rugged conduction-cooled or commercial air-cooled environments.
The rotating media VMDRIVE offers 300GB or 450GB storage capacity. This dual-slot VME or cPCI alternative is available in commercial air-cooled models. The VMDRIVE rotating media version stores data at 100 MB/s via dual channels of 2Gbps Fibre Channel.
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Date: Jul 30, 2008
Pentek Inc.
Pentek Introduces Two Rugged Software Radio PMC Modules with Unprecedented Performance and Density
·Full-featured, single-slot COTS PMC modules address diverse applications
·7141-420 covers a very wide range of transmit and receive bandwidths
·7141-430 provides 256 independently tunable receiver
chan...
UPPER SADDLE RIVER, NJ-July 29, 2008-Pentek, Inc., today announced a new family of rugged software radio modules with two of Pentek´s leading-edge, GateFlow FPGA IP cores installed on its recently introduced Model 7141 Dual Channel 125 MHz 14-bit A/D and 500 MHz 16-bit D/A Transceiver. As an added benefit, because the IP cores are pre-installed by Pentek, the end user is completely free from any FPGA development tasks. Pentek's 7141-420 and 7141-430, the first modules in this new family, transform the 7141 into two distinct and highly integrated products addressing a diverse range of applications.
"The speed, accuracy and enhanced dynamic range of the 7141 alone set it apart from other PMC products in the market," says Rodger Hosking, vice president of Pentek. "By d...
Date: Jul 29, 2008
Dynamic Engineering
LINUX for PCI IndustryPack Carrier PCI5IP
Now you can use LINUX with IndustryPack hardware. A new suite of IP Carrier and IP module software is being developed by DYNAMIC ENGINEERING. The Linux driver for PCI5IP - 5 position IP Module Carrier for the PCI bus i...
Now you can take advantage of LINUX with IndustryPack hardware. Linux has great performance with fast operation, low cost, and flexibility. IndustryPack hardware is modular, adaptable, cost effective, and high enough performance for many applications. IP Modules coupled with LINUX is the right architecture for many embedded applications.
Dynamic Engineering is designing a new suite of IP Carrier and IP Module drivers. The best features of the Dynamic Engineering WindowsŪs drivers are retained and improved with faster operation. Each of the 6 DYNAMIC ENGINEERING PCI based IP Carriers will be supported. The 5 position PCI based PCI5IP is the latest DYNAMIC ENGINEERING carrier with released Linux Drivers.
Each driver comes with the driver, plus a generic module to allo...
Date: Jul 25, 2008
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