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RTOS

Green Hills Software

Green Hills Software Supports Sitara™ ARM Cortex-A8 Microprocessors from Texas Instruments

Embedded Software Leader Supplies Proven RTOS and Industry Leading Tools for Scalable Processor Offering...

Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced the availability of its embedded software solutions for the Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) Sitara™ AM3505 and AM3517 microprocessors (MPUs) based on the ARM® Cortex™-A8. Green Hills Software’s ARM-optimized solution includes the INTEGRITY® real-time operating system (RTOS), MULTI® integrated development environment (IDE), optimizing C/C++ compilers and Green Hills Probe. Green Hills Software brings more than 28 years of experience in the embedded market to TI’s new Sitara MPUs, enabling developers to create and deploy reliable, high-performance products for industrial control, automation, transportation, medical, and a wide variety of other embedded applications in the least amo...

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Date: April 26 2010

Industry News (Market)

The Embedded Masterclass 2010

Engineers From Across The UK to Visit Embedded Systems Event

The Embedded Masterclass 2010 have announced that over 130 engineers have so far registered to attend this year's two-day event. The Embedded Masterc...

The organisers of the hi-tech developers event, The Embedded Masterclass 2010 have announced that over 130 engineers have so far registered to attend this year's two-day event. The Embedded Masterclass is to be held near Cambridge on the 6th May and then again in Reading on the 11th May. www.embedded-masterclass.com "The response from engineers has been very positive this year, many are engineers that have attended previous years' events," said Richard Blackburn, event organiser. "The half-day technology workshops are proving particularly popular. They have gained a strong reputation for being very informative and very good value for money." This year’s event includes an agenda of technical presentations relating to the development of microprocessor based systems, a vendor tabletop...

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Date: April 21 2010

HCC-Embedded

HCC-Embedded Releases USB Product Range for TI C6000/OMAP Microprocessors

Budapest, Hungary and New York, NY – April 16, 2010 - HCC-Embedded today announced the release of its USB Device and Host stacks for the TI C6000 DSP...

The TI TMS320C6000™ DSP platform offers high performance ans power efficiency for fixed-point DSPs. It includes single core and multi-core devices. The TI OMAP applications processors are ARM Cortex-A8-based and ARM9-based devices for low-power, general-purpose, multimedia and graphics processing. HCC has ported its complete Embedded USB Device and Host stacks to these devices. A comprehensive range of class drivers is available including mass storage, audio, CDC-ACM, CDC-ECM, HID, MIDI, MTP, printer, RFI, and RNDIS. Complete working projects for these targets can be supplied using Code Composer Studio. 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 other embed...

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Date: April 20 2010

Tools

PragmaDev

PragmaDev to provide a free full version of its MSC Tracer

PragmaDev launches a free full version of its graphical tracing product to create and edit trace diagrams based on SDL-RT Message Sequence Chart and ...

This MSC Tracer release offers: - All features for tracing, editing, comparison, and saving for free, - A new symbol to trace an unformal action. PragmaDev MSC Tracer main features are: - Easy documentation Edit the MSC traces with the included MSC editor. Generate PNG, PostScript and HTML or copy/paste to word processors for easy documentation. - Conformance Visually compare MSC diagrams to check conformance with a specification or non-regression of your system under test. - Easy connection Connection to the tracer is done through a socket in text mode. Commands are human readable with a possibility of acknowledgement of each information received. - Integration in your testing or development environment The tracer can be started graphically or in batch mode and control com...

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Date: April 19 2010

HCC-Embedded

HCC-Embedded Releases USB Device Stack for TI MSP430 Microcontrollers

Budapest, Hungary and New York, NY – April 12, 2010 – HCC-Embedded today announced the release of a USB Device stack for the TI MSP430 microcontrolle...

The MSP430 microprocessor platform of ultra-low power 16-bit RISC mixed-signal microcontrollers is used for a wide range of low-power and portable applications. The new MSP430F550x, MSP430F551x and MSP430F552x microcontrollers include a USB device controller. HCC has ported its EUSB Device stack to these versions of the MSP430. HCC’s EUSB Device stack running on the MSP430 can support multiple class drivers, including Mass Storage, HID, CDC-ACM (virtual comm. port), CDC-ECM, MTP, RNDIS, RFI, Printer and Bootloader. Full support for composite devices is available. A developer-friendly tool is provided for creating USB descriptors. Fully integrated solutions, including file systems, USB stack and class drivers can be provided. Projects are available for standard MSP430 tool-c...

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Date: April14 2010

eSOL Co., Ltd.

eSOL Co., Ltd. Unveils eSOL for Android, a combination of eSOL OS products and services that enables developers to replace the Android Linux kernel with another OS

Introducing eSOL for Android, a comprehensive solution that enables developers to replace Linux with true RTOSes and create more complex embedded app...

eSOL Co., Ltd. Unveils eSOL for Android, a combination of eSOL OS products and services that enables developers to replace the Android Linux kernel with another OS Tokyo, Japan. April 14, 2010 - eSOL Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Nakano-ku, Tokyo, President: Tsutomu Sawada, henceforth eSOL) today announced eSOL for Android™ as a one-stop solution for embedded systems development using Android™, an open source platform from the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). eSOL for Android consists of eSOL Adaptor for Android™, which enables Android to run on non-Linux OSes, and eSOL Professional Services for Android™, which offers technical services for Android-based software development. As a result, eSOL for Android is expected to bring Android to a much wider market beyond mobile phones. eSOL has ove...

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Date: April 14 2010

Boards

Pentek, Inc.

Pentek Announces Series of VPX Software Radio Boards that Delivers Extreme Performance

•Maximum Data Rates up to 4 GB/sec with Gen 2 PCIe •Wide-Range of 3U VPX Compact, Rugged COTS Solutions •Fabric-Transparent Switch Enables High-Spe...

Pentek, Inc. has introduced 14 products in their new family of 3U VPX boards for data acquisition, software radio and digital signal processing. These new boards offer flexible backplane fabric connections supporting maximum data rates of up to 4 GB/sec with PCI Express (PCIe) Generation 2 (Gen 2) and 2.5 GB/sec with other protocols. The 3U VPX form factor is compact and extremely well suited for avionics, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), shipboard and airborne radar, and signal intelligence applications. According to Rodger Hosking, vice president of Pentek, "Pentek’s new VPX modules fully support the OpenVPX standard (VITA 65) for improved interoperability among vendors and long-term availability.” He went on to explain, “The latest embedded system designs have shifted str...

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Date: April 13 2010

AdaCore

MBDA Extends Global Software Licensing Agreement with AdaCore

Leading missile company adopts SPARK Pro and AdaCore’s GNAT Pro development environments as corporate standard ...

PARIS, NEW YORK and BATH, England – April 13, 2010 – AdaCore today announced a new global licensing agreement with world-leading missile systems company MBDA. The three-year agreement will see the MBDA Group of companies extend its existing contract with AdaCore to now include the SPARK Pro high assurance software development toolset, as well as the GNAT Pro development environment. The combined contract, which covers 80 developers, will enable MBDA to benefit from a single access point for all software and support queries, as well as the advantages of using a single development platform that spans the tightly integrated SPARK Pro and GNAT Pro. This builds on MBDA’s existing long-term commitment to the Ada programming language and use of SPARK Pro and GNAT Pro as corporate standard...

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Date: April 13 2010

Industry News (Personnel)

HCC-Embedded

HCC-Embedded Appoints Gyorgy Gati as Test and Quality Manager

Budapest, Hungary and New York, NY – April 9, 2010 – HCC-Embedded today announced the appointment of Gyorgy Gati as its test and quality manager....

HCC-Embedded is totally committed to delivering high-quality software to the embedded marketplace. HCC’s establishment of the position of manager of test and quality, and Gyorgy Gati’s appointment, underscore and strengthen this commitment. Gyorgy Gati brings to HCC more than 20 years development and management experience in software systems. His work has covered a broad range of industries including banking, communications, POS systems and a large variety of embedded applications. Gyorgy Gati’s embedded projects, particularly, were technically challenging, including the POS systems, in which standards and quality are critically important. His role will be to maintain and further develop the code testing and quality systems for HCC’s hardware and firmware development groups. About ...

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Date: April 13 2010

Embedded Masterclass

UK Election Day Sees Embedded Systems Event in Cambridge

This year's Hi-Tech Developer's conference, the Embedded Masterclass, is to take place in Cambridge on the same day as the election. Organisers are f...

This year's Hi-Tech Developer's conference, the Embedded Masterclass, is to take place in Cambridge on the same day as the election. Organisers are facing up to the fact that Gordon Brown has chosen the 6th May for the election, the very day that the organisers of the Embedded Masterclass chose sometime back in 2009. "In many ways it is not a problem," said Richard Blackburn, the event organiser. "We will be reminding delegates that they can either apply for a postal vote or simply vote before or after the event, as polling stations will be open until 10pm. Not a lot happens on the actual day of the poll, so we think engineers will not be too distracted by this. They will be able to exercise their democratic right and boost their skills levels all on the very same day." This event i...

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Date: April 12 2010

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