The European magazine for embedded
design
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Volume 8
Number 57
April 2004
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News
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Mixing 16bit MCU with database - Metrowerks and
Encirq
LynuxWorks supports PowerPC G5
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iSYSTEM and SDC in partnership
Vector Informatik joins AUTOSAR
PC recycling comes under scrutiny
IR research in Denmark
Geotest Swedish sales
Group pushes security - MultiMediaCard Association
IAR is Italian choice
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Obsolescence group in Germany
Sales growth returns to embedded boards
Radstone earns new torpedo contract
GPS agreement
Linux support - MapuSoft Technologies
LonMark milestone
Xilinx buy Triscend
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Technology
MAX
II CPLDs cut power and costs; FFT IP core suitable for FPGA
co-processors - Altera
Diopsis
GFLOPS dual processor; AVR microcontroller for CAN networking
applications - Atmel
2
and 3 dimensional tracking & positioning
- 3LT Technologies
Portable
unit for evidence recording - Cypherix
Small
400MHz RISC/DSP processor - ARC
International
Image-Link
controller runs TFT displays via the USB2.0
bus - Distec
12-bit
data converter joins ARM7 - Analog
Devices
Telelogic
extends tools to multiple application platforms
- Telelogic
Zilog
expands 8-bit MCU portfolio - Zilog
Internet-ready
emulator provides a plug-and-play
replacement - Alptex/Spec.Tec
Evaluating
video & data - Celoxica
Integrating
design for IC, package and PCB -
Cadence
Logic
analysers with more flexibility - Agilent
Technologies;
FLO/PCB
enables multi team cooperation -
Flowmerics
Special Focus:
Debug & Test
8GHz
scope has Pinpoint triggering -
Tektronix
Boundary
controller interface choice - JTAG
technologies
Lauterbach
add self-calibrating Autofocus -
Lauterbach
Cyclone
PRO supports multiple MCUs - Computer
Solutions
LeCroy
brings larger screens to scopes down the design
chain - LeCroy
ETM3
support from RealView Trace unit - ARM
Tools
eases boundary-scan testing - Corelis
Flash
testing for intelligent circuits - Clare
Instruments
Hitex
add support for more TI devices -
Hitex
Special Focus:
Communications Systems
Wireless
power amps stay steady -ABI Research;
Software
boosts phone quality of service - fg
microtec
Interworking
multiple protcols for next generation telecom
designs - Interphase
A
single communication engine for handsets and convergent
devices - StarCore
Developers
kit for GPS receivers - Trimble
RF
tagging system for product traceability -
APV
Ethernet
and serial working together - Alpha Micro
Components
Technology
eases Oslo congestion -Wavecom
Developing
a complete cellular modem on a single
processor - TTPCom
Features
A
foundation platform for smart HVAC control
Paul Philips, Nick Kesteven, and Craig Langley describe the
development of the IQView display panel designed especially for
heating and ventilation control in intelligent buildings.
SAW
resonators for tire pressure
monitoring
Alexander Schmoldt explores the alternatives for tire pressure
monitoring systems and shows how a novel SAW resonator design can
reduce TPMS costs.
MIPS
& multiprocessing - an embedded perspective
Tom Riordan takes a look at how off-the-shelf, integrated
multiprocessors on a standard OS framework make it possible to
achieve the benefits of scalability implicit in the MP
promise.
