26 October 2009
 

Introduction

Highlights of this issue include new product releases from Altium, Ember, BittWare and Amplicon; design features on software-porting and development board support; embedded systems-related design ideas; schedule of the HiPEAC 2010 and the MUM 2009 conferences; and market intelligence on Embedded Software 2009
 

FPGA-based development board
Altium has appointed Premier Farnell as the web distributor for its new NanoBoard 3000 FPGA-based development board. The agreement extends to Premier Farnell’s family of global marketing and distribution services. The NanoBoard 3000 can help to make FPGA design easy.
Altium

ZigBee development kits
Ember has announced the availability of its new EM35x InSight development kits through its worldwide distribution channels. The kits enable development and debugging of ZigBee products on the ARM Cortex-M3 based EM351 and EM357 SoCs (system-on-chips) in the EM300 series semiconductor platform. The low-power SoCs feature high wireless networking performance and application code space.
Ember

Hybrid signal processing VPX board
BittWare has released the GT-3U-VPX (GT3X) board, which features a large Altera Stratix II GX FPGA and one cluster of four ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC processors from Analog Devices. The front panel provides high-speed SerDes, 10/100 Ethernet, and RS-232; and the back panel interface supports PCI Express, Serial RapidIO, GigE, and 10 GigE.
BittWare

Atom based embedded computers
Amplicon has launched the Impact-E 30 series of Atom based embedded computers adding to its existing Industrial PC range. The Impact-E 30 series are next generation embedded computer systems that utilise the Atom N270 processor to achieve high performance at low power consumption – typically around 11W with Windows XP Professional installed.
Amplicon
 

Speaking Of Porting Software
This software-porting hands-on experiment uncovers a potential audio decoder for embedded system applications, adding audio or speech to the applications’ user interfaces. The goal of this hands-on project was to port a common set of software across a variety of processor architectures: two ARM Cortex-M3 ports using Atmel and TexasInstruments processors, a port to a Microchip PIC32device, and a port to an Atmel AVR32 processor.

Xilinx rationalises and advances development-board support
Earlier in 2009, Xilinx announced its intention to support its Virtex and Spartan FPGA product lines with design-tool suites tailored to particular application domains. Since then, the company says, it has been introducing some individual elements of its new approach; now, it has added the Base Targeted Design Platform, blending the version 11.2 release of its ISE design tool suite.

High-Level Software For Embedded-System Design
Domain experts are gaining more control of embedded-system design, but electronic and code-design skills remain key to successful projects. Powerful high-level software tools give domain experts in such diverse fields as aerospace engineering, medical electronics, mechatronics, and even graphics design increasing control over the implementation of embedded systems.

Cypress extends PSoC with ARM and 8051 cores
Cypress Semiconductor designed its PSoC (programmable System-on- Chip) devices to contain all of the functional blocks of a small embedded system : a microcontroller core, programmable logic, and configurable analogue functions.
 

HiPEAC 2010, 25-27 January 2010, at Pisa, Italy
The HiPEAC conference provides a forum for computer and compiler architects in the field of high performance architecture and compilation for embedded and general-purpose systems, with a special emphasis on cross-cutting research that can be applied to both. The conference aims at the dissemination of advanced scientific knowledge and the promotion of international contacts among scientists from academia and industry.

MUM 2009, 22-29 November 2009, at Cambridge, United Kingdom
The 8th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2009) is organized by Microsoft Research, Nokia Research, and University of Cambridge, in cooperation with ACM Sigmobile. MUM is a forum for advances in research and technologies that drive innovation in mobile and multimedia systems, applications, and services.
 

Embedded Software 2009 Market Intelligence Service
As part of its Embedded Software 2009 Market Intelligence Service, VDC Research Group (VDC) has released a study covering the worldwide market for Linux employed in the development of embedded and mobile systems. This report contains estimates for 2008 shipments of embedded Linux-related solutions and forecasts of shipments through 2011.
 

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