LinuxDevices.com Embedded Linux Newsletter -- February 8, 2001


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Embedded Linux Newsletter
February 8, 2001

by Rick Lehrbaum -- Executive Editor
ZDNet's LinuxDevices.com


*** FEATURE ARTICLES ***

A walk on the embedded side . . . of LinuxWorld NY -- Rick Lehrbaum provides the "Embedded perspective" on last week's big LinuxWorld Conference in New York, including a comprehensive review of many of the embedded Linux product demonstrations. story

Details emerge on Transmeta's "Mobile Linux" -- Henry Kingman, senior producer of ZDNet's Linux Resource Center, attended a LinuxWorld talk by Dan Quinlan, a Linux developer at Transmeta, and filed this interesting report on the status of Mobile Linux. story

*** ANNOUNCEMENTS AT LINUXWORLD EXPO ***

Sun ships "Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition" for Linux -- Sun Microsystems announced availability of the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, (J2ME) Connected Device Configuration (CDC) and Foundation profile for Linux. Together, these components of the J2ME form a platform for networked devices in the home, auto and factory floor. story

Linux brushes up on Bluetooth -- ZDNet UK's Will Knight reports that Bluetooth -- the short-range wireless technology designed to replace cables -- is just beginning to trickle onto the market in Europe, but at the LinuxWorld show in New York a number of vendors were already showing off new wireless hardware running Linux. story

BlueCat gets Bluetooth -- Rappore Technologies and LynuxWorks announced support for Rappore's Bluetooth technology on LynuxWorks' BlueCat embedded Linux. story

Bayonne demonstrates Dialogic hardware support under GNU/Linux -- a new version of Bayonne, the telephony application server of the GNU project, demonstrated web integrated call center functionality supporting Intel/Dialogic telephony hardware and the GNU/Linux Dialogic SDK. story

Adaptec launches open source program/website -- Adaptec launched a new program (including a special website) to educate and support the Linux community, promote the release of new open-source drivers, and enable developers to create and share new drivers for Adaptec controllers. story

Embedded Virtual Machine development tools now online -- Insignia Solutions announced that it will offer its accelerated, Java-compatible Jeode Embedded Virtual Machine (EVM) technologies for Embedded Linux based system developers on DevelopOnline's Web-based open platform development site. story

Metrowerks enhances popular CodeWarrior IDE -- Metrowerks announced an enhancement to its CodeWarrior software development tools for the Linux operating system with new functionality to help Linux programmers increase their productivity and decrease their speed to market, including full Java support, native debugging, and concurrent and distributed compiling. story

Embedded Linux SDK supports TI ARM+DSP dual-core chips -- RidgeRun, Inc. announced plans to offer its DSPLinux SDK, based on Texas Instruments' TMS320DSC21 digital signal processor (DSP), through DevelopOnline's Web-based open platform development site. story

New open game API supports embedded devices -- RidgeRun, Inc. announced their Open Multimedia Interface (OMI), an API and multimedia plug-in for Linux. OMI provides an easy way to integrate multimedia functionality into applications and games. story

New open source Embedded Linux for Internet gateways -- Lightning, a manufacturer of secure Internet access gateways, announced its contribution to the open source community of a Linux 2.4 based implementation that supports advanced routing and gateway applications. story

A TASTE for Geode -- Tuxia announced a close partnership with National Semicondoctor whereby Tuxia's Linux-based TASTE operating system will support National's Geode system-on-chip processors and reference platforms. story

Lineo adds Embedded Power to its acquisition portfolio -- Lineo announced the acquisition of Embedded Power Corporation, a small software company that specializes in real-time operating systems for microprocessors and digital signal processors. story

Announcing linAXE: Linux for BattleBots -- and nicer robots too ;) -- Originally, linAXE started out as an effort to develop a Linux-based RTOS to control the popular "BattleBots" fighting robots, thus the combative name. Since then, the linAXE Project has undergone some changes and significantly broadened its scope! story

Alchemy Au1000 SOC gains Hard Hat Linux support -- Alchemy Semiconductor announced that it is partnering with MontaVista Software to provide an embedded Linux development tool kit for its Au1000 system-on-chip (SOC). The 400 MHz MIPS32-based SOC contains dual 100 megabit Ethernet interfaces. story

IBM Embedded Java support added to Hard Hat Linux -- MontaVista Software announced the availability of IBM's VisualAge Micro Edition (VAME) for its Hard Hat Linux. VAME contains IBM's latest embedded Java technology, the J9 Virtual Machine. story

StrongARM-based embedded Linux SBC drives two displays -- Applied Data Systems introduced the "Tandem", a "two-headed" StrongARM SA-1110 based single board computer (SBC), available with embedded Linux. story

Trolltech & IBM demo Linux speech recognition & TTS -- Trolltech, IBM, and KDE teamed up to demonstrate IBM's ViaVoice speech-recognition technology running on Trolltech's Qt, a cross-platform C++ GUI framework in KDE. story

Online development for Embedix+STPC combo coming soon -- developers using STMicroelectronics' STPC system-on-chip processors can soon take advantage of the Lineo Embedix operating system using resources available at DevelopOnline's Web-based open platform development site. story

OnCore ships comprehensive IBM PowerPC 405 support -- OnCore Systems Corporation announced shipment of comprehensive support for IBM's PowerPC 405 embedded processor, Revision D, the latest release of this high-power embedded processor line. story

TimeSys unveils Linux/RT Version 2.0 -- TimeSys unveiled Version 2.0 of Linux/RT, a Linux distribution with enhancements to meet embedded real-time quality-of-service requirements. story

*** OTHER NEWS ***

Announcing: the Real Time Linux Foundation -- The Real Time Linux Foundation, Inc, has been established as an impartial, vendor-neutral, non-profit organization dedicated to real-time Linux. story

Yodaiken unveils RTLinux patent license -- Victor Yodaiken has finally published the patent license for RTLinux. story

Embedded Linux Journal design contest finalists announced -- Big Mouth Billy Bass as a webcam? This and 99 other projects have been announced as finalists in Embedded Linux Journal's "Win an MZ104 -- Embedded Linux Design Contest". story

Compaq "letter to the editor" on StrongARM sleep mode -- this letter to the editor from Compaq's Western Research Laboratory relates to the recent announcement by ADS claiming the first full sleep mode support for the StrongARM processor. story

Momentum builds for open-source processors -- Peter Clarke reports in EE Times that momentum is slowly building for freely available open-source processors, the semiconductor market's equivalent of open-source software. story

Seminars highlight PC processors and info appliances -- two half-day Microprocessor Report seminars will be presented on March 15 in Santa Clara, CA by MicroDesign Resources, publishers of the Microprocessor Report. story

Java-based embedded software rides with Delphi Automotive -- Delphi Automotive Systems will use NetClue's Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) compliant technology and File Viewer in Delphi's Mobile MultiMedia products. NetClue's technology for Internet file viewing will be used in association with text-to-speech software. story

Sun Microsystems veteran becomes new TimeSys CEO -- TimeSys Corporation today announced the appointment of Francis X. Dougherty as the company's new CEO. story

*** LINKS OF THE WEEK ***

The Embedded Systems Glossary -- many of the terms an embedded systems developer might encounter, from ASIC to watchdog timer, in a handy online resource. story

the LinAXE Project -- an open project to promote the development of a Linux based RTOS that will allow developers, experimenters and students to develop and test ideas on these types of platforms . . . and scale up to larger applications such as industrial, exploration, military, medical, and many more. story

the Real Time Linux Foundation -- an impartial and vendor-neutral group has been established between industry, academia, users, and developers devoted to real-time Linux. story

Embedded Coyote Linux Firewall Project -- the project's goal is to provide a commercial quality, open source and free firewall solution that is designed to run as a fully embedded OS. story

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*** THE 2001 EMBEDDED LINUX MARKET SURVEY ***

As part of our continuing efforts to support the rapidly growing Embedded Linux Market, we are pleased to announce the online 2001 Embedded Linux Market Survey. The survey, which is structured in three parts, asks developers of Linux-based embedded systems and intelligent devices to anonymously provide information about their applications, their embedded Linux OS requirements and preferences, and the perceived advantages and disadvantages of using Linux in embedded applications.

Note: Please participate in this new survey, even if you already did so in 2000. Thank you!

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