Dedicated Systems e-Spotlight: Vol 9, Issue 42s published on October 30, 2008
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SDC Systems Ltd
UK Workshop to Help Engineers Understand the Transition from A Traditional RTOS to Linux
Systems has announced that it is to run a series of embedded engineering workshops. The first of these will focus on the migration of software from a traditional RTOS to the Linux operating system....
Embedded system tools and software company SDC Systems has announced that it is to run a series of embedded engineering workshops. The first of these will focus on the migration of software from a traditional RTOS to the Linux operating system. Working in conjunction with the leading realtime embedded Linux developer MontaVista Software, SDC Systems will hold the half-day seminar at Bracknell on the 4th November.
"Linux has proven itself in the engineering sector with up to one third of 32 and 64 bit designs now being based upon it, more than twice the share of any other embedded OS," said Stuart Parker, Managing Director of SDC Systems. "However, most software engineers will consider the moving of a project to another operating system to be a daunting task, full of u...
Date : Oct 20, 2008
SPOTLIGHT SELECTION
This is the spotlight edition of our e-gazette. You can still find all submitted announcements on our website.
Boards
Dynamic Engineering
HDETERM68 - improved breakout for PMC, VME, cPCI
Do you need to adapt from your PMC with a SCSI connector to system wiring? The HDEterm68 provides SCSI Connector <=>Screw Terminal Block<=>SCSI connector for easy access to your high density signals. HD...
The high density 68 pin SCSI II/III connector is being used for non-SCSI interfaces because of board and front panel space limitations. In the PMC environment the SCSI connector provides an excellent size and pin count for the front panel space allowed. The SCSI connector while dense, is not easy to connect to with wiring intended to go to multiple locations.
HDEterm68 provides SCSI Connector<=>Screw Terminal Block<=>SCSI connector for easy access to your high density signals. HDEterm68 snaps together with your PMC using standard SCSI cable. The system signals are tied in with the screw terminal block. Available with latch blocks or thumb screw, horizontal, vertical or mixed connectors, with and without the DIN rail mounting system.
HDEterm68 has been u...
Date: Oct 28, 2008
Patterson & Associates
PENTEK'S new Software Radio PMC Module Features Industry´s Latest 16-bit 200 MHz A/Ds
Four 200 MHz 16-bit A/Ds
Integrated high-performance two- or four-channel DDC
Signal bandwidths of up to 90 MHz
Radar and wideband communications
Complete, scalable, four-channel beamfor...
Pentek, Inc., has introduced its Model 7153 digital down converter (DDC), a four-channel, high-speed digitizer PMC module designed for processing baseband RF or IF signals from a communications receiver. This is the only available product of its kind that employs the new ADS5485 A/D Converter just released by Texas Instruments. Four of these 200 MHz, 16-bit monolithic A/Ds in the front end of the Model 7153 deliver a previously unattainable combination of speed and resolution. In addition, these new A/Ds exhibit a signal-to-noise ratio of 75 dBFS and a spurious-free dynamic range of 87 dBc at a 70 MHz input frequency.
"Building upon its Model 7150 hardware platform, Pentek has developed and installed full-function FPGA IP cores to create a series of turnkey solutions addressin...
Date: Oct 28, 2008
Industry News (Market)
Green Hills Software Ltd
Saab Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Relies on INTEGRITY from Green Hills Software
Development of UAV Flight Control Unit Jump-Started by Green Hills Software.
*Image reproduced courtesy of Saab AB. Photographer: peter@svarteld.com...
Green Hills Software, Inc., the technology leader in device software optimization (DSO) and real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced that Saab is using Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY® operating system in the Saab Skeldar unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Saab also selected Green Hills Software´s MULTI® debugger and the Green Hills Probe for use in the development of the UAV´s redundant flight control unit, which was based on the Freescale MPC5554 microcontroller.
"We selected Green Hills Software because it provided the best toolset for the MPC5554, our chosen processor," commented Torbjörn Helgesson, system engineer, Computer System Architecture, Saab. "The project was jump-started thanks to the use of INTEGRITY, which quickly gave us a working base for t...
Date: Oct 29, 2008
BittWare, Inc.
BittWare Announces Reconfigurable FPGA AMC Module Featuring SFP/SFP+ Compact Optical Transceivers
AdvancedMC enables higher port density while maintaining low power consumption, all in a completely flexible, reconfigurable platform ideal for serial communications....
SANTA CLARA, CA - October 22, 2008 - BittWare, the leading supplier of FPGA-computing and hybrid (FPGA+DSP) digital signal processing COTS solutions, announced today at the AdvancedTCA Summit their newest AdvancedMC module - the SF/GX-AMC (SF/GXAM). The SF/GXAM features four small form-factor pluggable-plus (SFP/SFP+) transceivers enabling support of virtually any serial communication standard, including Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, SONET, CPRI, and OBSAI. The four SFP/SFP+ SerDes channels are connected directly to the on-board Altera® Stratix® II GX FPGA which handles the higher level communications protocols. The SF/GXAM enables BittWare's customers to meet their increased bandwidth needs while also maintaining a small board footprint, and low power consumption.
"The...
Date: Oct 24, 2008
SYSGO AG
SYSGO Announces Support For Adobe Flash Lite In Embedded Linux Solution
Paris, Mainz, October 23, 2008
ELinOST, the Industrial Grade Embedded Linux solution from SYSGO to support Adobe Flash Lite 3.1
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SYSGO has been pioneering the embedded Linux market for almost ten years, and its ELinOST product has penetrated many market segments. SYSGO´s ability to provide trustworthy solutions for high reliability systems is now increasingly recognized and sought out by major players in fields as diverse as Industrial Automation and Consumers Electronics. In order to better support innovative applications in these areas, SYSGO is now announcing support for Adobe Flash LiteT offering its customers the possibility to develop rich Flash based applications within their embedded systems.
Adobe Flash Lite software is a powerful runtime engine for mobile and consumer electronics devices aimed at both device manufacturers and content developers. With more than 800 Million devices shipped with...
Date: Oct 23, 2008
Dolomite Microfluidics
Dolomite's Command Of Microfluidics Leads to Sales Growth and Expansion
Dolomite are celebrating both the opening of their Japanese office and sales growth of over 200% during the past year....
Microfluidic pioneers Dolomite are celebrating both the opening of their Japanese office and sales growth of over 200% during the past year. Dolomite are fast becoming a world leader in the development and manufacture of the microfluidic chips and connectors that are used in such industries as drug discovery, drug delivery, forensics and clinical diagnostics.
Microfluidics, an embedded technology also known as `lab on a chip', 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 management and analysis systems are created in a microfluidic chip and interfaced wit...
Date: Oct 23, 2008
SDC Systems Ltd
UK Workshop to Help Engineers Understand the Transition from A Traditional RTOS to Linux
Systems has announced that it is to run a series of embedded engineering workshops. The first of these will focus on the migration of software from a traditional RTOS to the Linux operating system....
Embedded system tools and software company SDC Systems has announced that it is to run a series of embedded engineering workshops. The first of these will focus on the migration of software from a traditional RTOS to the Linux operating system. Working in conjunction with the leading realtime embedded Linux developer MontaVista Software, SDC Systems will hold the half-day seminar at Bracknell on the 4th November.
"Linux has proven itself in the engineering sector with up to one third of 32 and 64 bit designs now being based upon it, more than twice the share of any other embedded OS," said Stuart Parker, Managing Director of SDC Systems. "However, most software engineers will consider the moving of a project to another operating system to be a daunting task, full of u...
Date: Oct 20, 2008
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