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Diversified Technology’s ATC6239 Dual Quad-Core board is powered by 2.4-GHz AMD “Shanghia” Opteron processors with 6 Mbytes of L3 cache. The PICMG 3.1-compatible board supports up to 32 Gbytes of DRAM plus dual-port 10-Gbit Ethernet.

Bill Wong discusses the reliability of the new CoreMark benchmark with Markus Levy, president of the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC).

Technology Editor Bill Wong talks to Brant Ivey, Application Engineer at Microchip, about low power microcontroller system design. Low power design tends to be application specific so there is a lot of ground to cover. Brant touches on a range of power related issues and discusses ways to reduce power consumption.

Keith Curtis, Technical Staff Engineer at Microchip, gives Technology Editor Bill Wong a detailed overview on microcontroller-based touch sensing solutions. This includes capacitive and induction touch sensing solutions including how it works and issues that arise using various approaches. Just the thing to get started with touch sensing designs.

Citrix and Open Kernel Labs have joined forces to deliver remote application execution to smart phones and other devices running Open Kernel Labs OKL4. The secure, partitioned hypervisor allows organizations to deliver enterprise applications via Citrix Receiver, a remote-control application, connected to a Citrix Server.

RoweBots Research has delivered a pair of ultra-tiny, Linux-compatible real-time operating systems (RTOSs) for Renesas’ R8C, M16C, and R32C/100 microcontroller families. The DSPnano and Unison are also POSIX-compatible. Both work with Renesas’ High-performance Embedded Workshop (HEW) integrated development environment (IDE).

The nanoWatt XLP line of 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers from Microchip reduces power draw to 20 nA when sleeping in its lowest-power mode. The eXtreme Low Power (XLP) technology supports a range of sleep modes including a 400-nA watchdog and 500-nA real-time clock mode. These chips are designed for use in sealed battery and energy-harvesting applications.

Technology Editor Bill Wong talks with Charlie Ice, Product Marketing Manager for Texas Instruments, about the new 300 MHz Delfino C2834x DSP that doubles the floating point performance of its predecessor. It is ideal for a range of applications including high performance motor control.

BitBake from the OpenEmbedded project is central to Monta Vista’s latest Linux real-time operating system (RTOS) and system tool release, Monta Vista Linux 6 (MVL 6). MVL 6 has the latest Linux and Eclipse development system enhancements and bug fixes, but the BitBake build environment is being exposed in this release. BitBake is a system designed to build systems, sort of like a super make facility. In fact, it is designed to work with standard make tools like Ant.

Supercomputing continues to get faster, cheaper, and move available. Costs are dropping rapidly partially because of graphics processing units (GPUs) and their highly parallel architecture. NVidia continues to deliver high-performance Tesla GPU computing platforms for the masses with its Telsa Preconfigured Cluster. The Telsa Preconfigured Cluster is designed as a scalable solution for midrange supercomputing applications.

In some sense, the Eclipse Public License (EPL) is a “mortgage-free” license in that one is allowed to add components and market them in an open-source or closed-source way. You can take and never give back. The EPL allows open-source software loans to default since one can add components on top of Eclipse and market them in an opaque and restricted fashion. This creates the potential for a software subprime crisis: One can borrow and never pay back.

The S705 Raider from General Micro Systems lets developers put a 2.16-GHz Core 2 Duo processor into rugged environments such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The compact 4.6- by 4.6- by 1.6-in. package weighs only 2 lb with a single hard drive.

Adlink Technology is looking to put more PC/104 boards into very rugged environments with its MilSystem 800, which is an STD-MIL-38999 version of the already rugged RuffSystem 800. This conduction-cooled enclosure is dust-proof and splash-proof, and it has an operating range of –40°C to 75°C.

RF Micro Devices Inc.'s RF1450 single-pole four-throw (SP4T) switch has been selected by a leading manufacturer for integration into an upcoming multi-featured CDMA smartphone.

OEM automotive electronics systems supplier Delphi is deploying Microtune's MT2067 tuner in the TV receiver system of its factory-installed front- and rear-seat entertainment systems that are shipping to Europe and Japan.

Technology Editor Bill Wong takes a look at Texas Instrument’s DLP Pico Kit and Beagle Board. The pair work together to provide some interesting videos.

Technology Editor Bill Wong takes a look at some Flexis microcontroller development kits from Freescale Semiconductor.

Parallel computing is the way of the future. Many advantages can be reaped if IP networking can be taken to the tactical edge—where sensors collect valuable data. Why? Because IP networking is pervasive and inexpensive. And better than any other protocol we have today, IP networking can minimize the interoperability risks of developing applications on compute clusters in the laboratory and then deploying them to large systems in the field.

For its SecPath high-end security systems, H3C Technologies employs IDT’s 89HPES48H12, a 48-lane, 12-port PCI Express system interconnect switch with an advanced architecture.

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