
	Dedicated Systems e-Gazette: Volume11, Issue 04 published on Apr 08, 2010
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	Industry News (Market)
	Blunk Microsystems, LLC TargetTCP achieves IPv6 Phase 2 certification Blunk Microsystems' high performance embedded network protocol stack TargetTCP™ has been ready certified for IPsec and IPv6 Phase 2. ... San Jose, CA (February 24, 2010) Blunk Microsystems, LLC, a leader in embedded software and development tools, announces that TargetTCP™ has received IPv6 Ready certification by the IPv6Ready Organization (www.ipv6ready.org) for IPsec and Phase 2 Core Protocols. TargetTCP is a complete TCP/IP protocol stack designed for performance, reliability and security. Source licensed to embedded developers and designers, TargetTCP IPv4/IPv6 includes compile-time support for over 30 network protocols. The IPv6 Ready Organization's Phase 2 Core Protocol testing framework is industry standard in conformance testing for IPv6, the next-generation internet protocol. TargetTCP-IPv6 is an OS integrated IPv6 implementation designed and engineered exclusively for TargetTCP to ensure Blunk's tradition of ...	Full version Date:2/24/2010 6:21:00 PM

	Industry News (Financial)
	Green Hills Software Green Hills Software announces end of embedded industry recession Record 2009 revenues and profits confirm leadership in Independent embedded software solutions market. Global alliance with Dell to sell and supp... Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, has announced it achieved record revenues and earnings for 2009, signalling an end to the embedded industry recession. Green Hills Software remains the world's most profitable embedded software company, having achieved 27 consecutive profitable years. Green Hills Software's Q4 2009 sales increased by nearly 40% over the prior quarter. “The market for embedded software has rebounded strongly from its slumber between Q3 2008 and Q3 2009,” commented Dan O’Dowd, chief executive officer, Green Hills Software. “Many of our customers and partners share this observation based on their own improved business prospects. There is no doubt that the embedded recession is over.” Wind River’s Exit Strategy Q...	Full version Date:2/23/2010 2:10:00 PM

	The UK Embedded Masterclass Wind River Lifts the Lid off Symmetrical Multi-Processing at the UK Embedded Masterclass Half-day workshop introduces engineers to the process of migrating an application running in single-core mode to run in SMP (symmetric multi-processi... Engineers looking to work with multicore devices or exploit symmetrical multi-processing for embedded systems will be pleased to hear that both of these topics are central to this year's agenda at The Embedded Masterclass 2010, 6th and 11th May. www.embedded-masterclass.com Paul Tingey of Wind River will present a half-day workshop that introduces engineers to the process of migrating an application running in single-core mode to run in SMP (symmetric multi-processing) mode, taking advantage of the multiple cores to gain an increase in performance. "Just like in the desktop and laptop arena, adoption of multi-core processors in Embedded Systems is becoming increasingly widespread," said Paul Tingey, the presenter of the SMP workshop. "The advantages are well understood: a prom...	Full version Date:2/23/2010 11:20:00 AM

	SYSGO SYSGO’s PikeOS micro-kernel correctness presented at embedded world conference Mainz - February 22, 2010 A technical presentation on Operating System correctness applying to PikeOS will be given at the upcoming embedded world... PikeOS is MILS compliant by design and is already used in major safety-critical projects. Its innovative architecture makes it also suitable for systems requiring the highest level of security. For composite systems, high levels of the Common Criteria standard make mandatory the formal verification of the OS layer(s) that interface the user application with the hardware platform. Correctness of this software component is one of the major challenges that embedded solution suppliers are increasingly facing. Reasoning about operating system correctness has for a long time been a rather academic exercise. This is changing today with the emergence of separation kernel implementations, where partitioning analysis is already good practice. In the presentation it will be shown how the CVM “con...	Full version Date:2/22/2010 3:51:00 PM

	Pebble Bay Hitex Design UK and Pebble Bay Collaboration Offers Important Resource for Hardware Software Integration Strategic partnership offers service for software and hardware integration and embedded development.... Hitex Design UK and Pebble Bay have agreed a strategic partnership that will enable the two companies to offer a uniquely capable service for software and hardware integration and embedded development. With Hitex Design UK a leader in hardware design and Pebble Bay a world leader in board support and device driver software, this collaboration is expected to be an attractive service to hi-tech development companies around the world; helping companies to accelerate development and develop better products. "One of the major challenges of hi-tech development is the problem of enabling the software to interface with the hardware," said Ian Willats, Managing Director of Pebble Bay. "How well this is done impacts every aspect of the systems performance and reliability. Our collaboration with ...	Full version Date:2/17/2010 12:37:00 PM

	RTOS
	Green Hills Software Green Hills Software Announces World’s First Mobile Multivisor™ Multicore Hypervisor for ARM Cortex-A9 Processor Enables a New Generation of Mobile Device Usage Models... Mobile World Congress - Booth 7EM1 Barcelona, Spain Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent supplier of embedded software solutions, has announced the INTEGRITY® Multivisor™, a multicore hypervisor for ARM® Cortex-A9 MPCore™ processors. The INTEGRITY Multivisor is built on INTEGRITY, the world’s market-leading, high-reliability RTOS and the only technology certified by USA’s National Security Agency to EAL6+ High Robustness, the highest level of security ever achieved for any software product. The INTEGRITY Multivisor unlocks the performance potential of multicore designs, reduces OEM costs through processor consolidation, increases battery life by facilitating intelligent multicore power management, enables new usage models such as dual operating system personalities o...	Full version Date:2/15/2010 3:47:00 PM

	HCC-Embedded Kft. HCC releases File System and USB products for 32-bit AVR Budapest, Hungary and New York, NY – February 10, 2010 - HCC-Embedded today announced the release of a complete range of embedded firmware for the At... The 32-bit AVR product family is optimized for highly integrated applications and low power consumption. Among the many features of the AVR32 family are high speed USB (host and device), 4-bit SD controller and high-performance NAND and ECC controller with support for 4-bit error correction. HCC has ported all of its relevant embedded products to the AVR32 line. Included are the embedded USB host, device and OTG stacks, as well as the FAT, SafeFAT and SafeFLASH file systems, and the SafeFTL flash translation layer. Working projects, built with standard tool-chains, are available for standard AVR32 development boards. HCC’s embedded products are designed for operation with or without an RTOS. They can be supplied in a fully integrated state, with many RTOSes, TCP/IP stacks and o...	Full version Date:2/12/2010 1:31:00 PM

	SYSGO SYSGO announces ELinOS support for OMAP35x™ Evaluation Module Mainz, Paris – February 11, 2010 SYSGO, leading supplier of software solutions for the world’s most demanding safety and security applications, anno... Devices of the OMAP35x family are based on ARM® Cortex™-A8 core. Combined with graphics capability and DSP technology, they offer one of the best combinations of integrated processing capabilities in any single-chip combination. They are best suited for applications such as portable navigation devices, portable media players, point of sale, point of services and personal medical equipment. When paired with SYSGO’s ELinOS industrial grade Linux operating system, the OMAP35x based platforms enable the rapid development of sophisticated reliable systems requiring low power and high performance. SYSGO’s ELinOS board support package for the OMAP35x EVM allows developers to fully access and leverage the strengths of the board, including the speed optimized OMAP3530 processor (720MHz ARM Cort...	Full version Date:2/11/2010 10:15:00 AM

	Tools
	AdaCore AdaCore Releases GNAT Pro 6.3 Ada development environment now supports 64-bit code generation on Windows ... BRISTOL, United Kingdom, NEW YORK and PARIS, February 9, 2010 – Safety-Critical Systems Symposium – AdaCore, a leading supplier of Ada development tools and support services, today announced the latest major release of its GNAT Pro Ada development environment. GNAT Pro 6.3 is now available on several new platforms including 64-bit Windows, Windows 7, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, VxWorks MILS, and PikeOS (ARINC 653). The product incorporates performance improvements and a variety of enhancements, many based on customer feedback, and it offers the first implementation of new Ada 2012 features. GNAT Pro 6.3 works with a number of complementary tools, sold separately, including the CodePeer automated code review and validation tool. “We continually strive to provide our customers with world-clas...	Full version Date:2/9/2010 10:24:00 PM

	Pebble Bay Pebble Bay to De- Mystify Device Driver Development At Embedded Masterclass workshop intendeds to help engineers understand how software interfaces with typical embedded system hardware and to understand the purpose, structur... UK embedded engineering experts, Pebble Bay, have announced that they will be presenting a half-day technical workshop at this year's Embedded Masterclass event. Entitled "An Introduction to Hardware Interfacing and Device Driver Development" the workshop is intended to help engineers understand how software interfaces with typical embedded system hardware and to understand the purpose, structure and typical components of a device driver. The Embedded Masterclass will take place 6th and 11th May 2010 in Cambridge and Reading. Over the past 9 years, the Embedded Masterclass has established itself as an important UK event for hi-tech engineers looking to explore the most recent tools and technologies for the development of microprocessor based systems. UK based Pebble Bay is a busine...	Full version Date:2/5/2010 11:42:00 AM

	Other
	Verotec New three hundred page packaging handbook is now available Verotec manufactures and supplies, from the original tooling, the Vero Electronics families of metal enclosures, system components, power supplies, b... Verotec manufactures and supplies, from the original tooling, the Vero Electronics families of metal enclosures, system components, power supplies, backplanes and configured hardware solutions for open system architecture, general purpose and ruggedised electronic applications. A new 300 page full colour hard copy and PDF product catalogue is now available, giving full technical and application details of more than 4000 standard products. The hard copy catalogue can be ordered from http://www.verotec.co.uk or by calling 023 8024 6900 in the UK or 603.821.9921 in the US. If preferred, each of the 14 individual sections can be downloaded as a PDF from the relevant product section on the web site. The major product families from Verotec include many well-known brands such as KM6 subracks,...	Full version Date:2/4/2010 11:39:00 AM

	Boards
	BVM Ltd PCI Express mini card has dual eSATA ports The new MPX-3132 from BVM is a high performance PCI Express mini card with two external Serial ATA (eSATA) ports.... The new MPX-3132 from BVM is a high performance PCI Express mini card with two external Serial ATA (eSATA) ports. With the ever increasing availability of PCI Express mini card slots on modern motherboards, these modules provide a convenient and efficient means of adding external storage capability to compact systems. Each eSATA port has a bandwidth of 3Gbits/s and the MPX-3132, based on the Sil3132 SteelVine controller, uses frame information structure (FIS) based switching with a balancing algorithm to ensure a fair allocation of available bandwidth to each drive, aggregating the throughput to the single lane PCIE host. The unit also supports Port Multipliers. Available with drivers for Windows and Linux drivers, the card supports RAID 0 (FAST), 1 (SAFE) and BIG drive spanning acr...	Full version Date:2/3/2010 11:39:00 AM

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