The European magazine for embedded
design
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Volume 10
Number 11
October 2006
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News
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Smartcard market continues growth; Researchers develop computer eye-control – Fraunhofer Institute; Sensor investment –DeepStream Technologies Ltd; ARM in Eclipse; Nomadik OS – STMicroelectronics and Mentor Graphics; Papers sought –Profibus U.K.
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ZigBee's improved specification is incompatible with version 1.0; Varan bus uses CANopen device profiles; RFID deal - IER/Innovision Research & Technology; Boards for portables - Dialog Semiconductor/Bsquare; Esterel acquires code - Thales Avionics SA and Diehl Aerospace; OTG certification
Technology
Automatically generating HDl code - The MathWorks
Kit provides everything for str912 - IAR systems
Fast rtos provides small footprint for blackfin applications - Green Hills
Perst lite for Java J2me platform – McObject
Subsystem combines audio and mpeg-4 video – Arc International
Special Focus:
Smart Cards & Security
Defeating the smart card code-crackers - IST
Leading the smart card revolution - NXP
The future of embedded security: the impact of emeging standards - Maxim
Holding the aces in the game of cards - Altium
Features
Accelerated debugging – bridging the gap between simulation and prototyping
Zibi Zalewski and Chris Szczur describe how to shave months off the verification process..
Technology boosts information systems for public transport users
The systems provided on public transport to both inform and entertain passengers are increasing in sophistication. Andrew brown describes the technologies being used to provide the services.
Curing the headaches of embedded Linux
Rob taylor explains collaboration can provide mutual benefits for users of open source software.
Upgrading a DSM and code generation tool
Metacase is preparing to launch version 4.5 of its Metaedit domain-specific modeling and code generation environment.
New Products
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8 bit MCUs for automotive designs - STMicroelectronics; dSPACE links tool to Doors; Kit for Stellaris evaluation - Luminary Micro; TCP stack for evaluation - Micrium
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XScale based SBC is RoHS compliant - Arcom; Kit eases the design of logic controllers - Rabbit Semiconductor Inc; Dragon tool for AVR design-in - Atmel
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Micro Client adds larger displays - Kontron; Wireless systems provide alarm - Marmitek; LynuxWorks upgrades Blue Cat Linux to version 5.4 - LynuxWorks; Library supports ARM MCUs - ARM
