[Pease Porridge] What's All This Recipe Engineering Stuff, Anyhow? (Part 2)
Several people have asked me, "What the heck is 'Pease Porridge?' Is it a kind of oatmeal?" Not at all. Oats have nothing to do with it. Every general cookbook has a recipe or two for pea soup with ham. Here is a delightful recipe for a Pease...
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Bob Pease
[TechView: The Industry] Ultra-Small Server Web-Enables Any System
As companies trim labor overheads, they're looking to fill the void with remote diagnostics, maintenance, and data collection. One method is to Web-enable more systems to use the Internet and World Wide Web to collect data and diagnose or control...
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Staff
[TechView: The Industry] New Database Powers IC Design Suite
By opening up its Milkyway design database and building its new Galaxy design platform around it, Synopsys has accomplished two critical goals. For one, it has cut the risks in nanometer design by bringing consistency in timing and delay calculation...
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Staff
[TechView: Analog & Power] Product News
Lattice Semiconductor's ispPAC Power Manager integrates power-supply sequencing and monitoring functions into a single IC that lets designers program parameters such as sequencing delay and ramp rate (see the...
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David G. Morrison
[TechView: Communications] Multimode WLAN Chip Set Hits The Streets
The fastest growing segment of wireless these days is the IEEE 802.11b 11-Mbit/s wireless-LAN-enabled products that operate in the unlicensed 2.4-GHz band. With this standard, laptops can access nearby enterprise local-area networks (LANs), home...
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Louis E. Frenzel
[TechView: Components & Test] Breaking News
New automated calibration procedures from Fluke Corp. for three Tektronix oscilloscopes—the TDS 5000, TDS 6000, and TDS 7000 series—substantially reduce downtime. Performance-verification time is cut to about 60 minutes or less. MET/CAL Plus...
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Roger Allan
[Embedded in Electronic Design] Location, Location, Location
It's true for real estate. It's true for processors and devices, too. That's right. In system design, location dictates the kind of interconnect that will be required, and no single solution works in all circumstances. This is why so many new...
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William Wong
[Embedded in Electronic Design] 4-Port Serial ATA Chips Ship
The Serial ATA onslaught has begun. Vitesse's new four-channel VSC7174 host bus controller (HBC) and two-enclosure management controllers (VSC420 and VSC425) are now available. They conform to the Serial ATA 1.0 and Serial ATA II, Phase I...
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William Wong
[Embedded in Electronic Design] PCI Express: The Undisputed King
The roadmap is clear, even though travel won't start for a while. PCI Express Base hardware will emerge near the end of the year, with switch-fabric shipments not expected until 2004. The Advanced Switching Standard is being incorporated into a...
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William Wong
[Embedded in Electronic Design] Advanced TCA: The New Comm Platform
PICMG's (www.picmg.org) Advanced TCA (Telecom Computing Architecture) is a massive new specification that targets next-generation carrier-grade equipment. While proprietary hardware dominates this market, the move to standards-based platforms...
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William Wong
[Embedded in Electronic Design] VME Packs I/O And Mezzanine Options
Pentek's Model 4205 incorporates a 600-MHz MPC7455 processor and two Xilinx Virtex-II Series XCV1000 FPGAs. The board supports Ethernet, VME64, dual RACE++ channels, and one or two Gigabit Fibre Channels. Mezzanine module combinations include...
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William Wong
[Embedded in Electronic Design] Dual PowerPC Drives Dual RACE++ Links
Mercury Computer System's PCI-64-based VantageRT FCN links two 267-Mbyte/s RACE++ channels with a pair of G4 7410 Power PC processors and a Xilinx Virtex II FPGA. The FPGA supports 8- or 12-Mbyte SRAM and 256-Mbyte DRAM. Each processor has a...
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William Wong
[Embedded in Electronic Design] VME SBC Draws A Mere 14 W
A total of 14 W is not much power for a VME board with dual 733-MHz Power PC processors. Ideal for harsh environments that require convection cooling, the PowerEngine7 from Thales Computers can handle up to 512-Mbyte SDRAM and 128-Mbyte flash....
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William Wong
[Embedded in Electronic Design] Dual Pentium IIIs Power CompactPCI
Using two 933-MHz, low-voltage Pentium IIIs, Concurrent Technologies' PP 120/01x handles up to four Gigabit Ethernet channels. It supports the PICMG 2.16 (dual Gigabit Ethernet), PICMG 2.1 (IPMI), and PICMG 2.0 standards. There's space for an...
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William Wong
[Embedded in Electronic Design] Versatile Multimedia SBC Plugs Into cPCI
The CompactPCI-based C161 Aurora from General Micro Systems uses a dual-mode Asiliant 69030 video controller with RGB and DVI outputs supporting resolutions to 1600 by 1200. The single-board computer (SBC) is powered by a 1-GHz Pentium III with...
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William Wong
[Embedded in Electronic Design] DOS-Based Controller
The Flashlite 186 controller developed by JK Microsystems costs only $69. It has a 33-MHz, 186-compatible processor with 512 Mbytes of DRAM, flash memory, and support for M-System's DiskOnChip. www.jkmicro.com ...
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William Wong
[Embedded in Electronic Design] Linux Gets New Features
Monta Vista's Linux Professional Edition 3.0 includes a wide range of new features and tools. This includes improved low-memory condition handling, IPv6 support, and the XFS journaling file system. It now supports XScale, MIPS, ARM, and SH platforms....
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William Wong
[Embedded in Electronic Design] NPU Tool Adds C Support
The Teja NP 3.0 tacks on a C development environment to Teja's GUI model-based network processor design tool. The new C environment makes legacy-code use easier to incorporate into IXP2xxx designs....
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William Wong
[Embedded in Electronic Design] Code Morphing Does Security
Transmeta's existing and future Crusoe processors will support Transmeta Security Extensions (TSX). The approach allows encryption, authentication, and secure key storage to be incorporated directly in the processor....
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William Wong
[Embedded in Electronic Design] Military Gbit Switch
Radstone Technology's new GBX8 eight-port 1000BaseT switch with an on-board PowerPC is designed for rugged environments. Two ports can handle optical connections. Available in air- and conduction-cooled formats, the GBX8 temperature ranges from...
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William Wong
[Embedded in Electronic Design] 2x(Xeon +Gb Enet)
Adlink Technology's new NuPRO-900 packs dual, low-voltage 2.4-GHz Xeon, a pair of 64-bit Gbit Ethernet adapters, and 8-Gbyte DDR266 RAM on a PICMG 1.2-compliant ePCI-X board. It comes equipped with a miniPCI socket, USB, and VGA....
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William Wong
[Embedded in Electronic Design] CompactPCI SMP PPC Handles Linux
Force Computers CHAMP AV (Common Heterogeneous Architecture for Multi-Processing server blade with AtliVec technology) lets Linux drive an MPC8240 and quad MPC7410 Power PC processors. It can be partitioned into two dual MPC7410 systems with...
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William Wong
[Embedded in Electronic Design] Advanced TCA Rack
Developers that need to get started with Advanced TCA can look to Pentair Electronic's Schroff 12U 14-slot development system. It supports the PICMG 3.0 standard with a full mesh backplane. The shelf manager is based on the Intel ZT7102 chassis...
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William Wong
