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	Industry News (Market)
	HCC-Embedded HCC-Embedded Releases File System and USB Product Ranges for Atmel SAM9G45 Microcontrollers Budapest, Hungary and New York, NY – June 15, 2010 – HCC-Embedded today announced the release of a complete range of embedded firmware for Atmel SAM9... The 32-bit SAM9G45 is a high-performance microcontroller that is very effective for industrial applications such as alarm systems, building management, HVAC, medical apparatus, process control, and many others. The SAM9G45 supports high speed USB (host and device), an SD controller, and high-performance NAND and ECC controller with support for error correction. HCC has ported all of its relevant embedded products to the SAM9G45. 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. HCC’s file system drivers are available for use with all memories supported by the SAM9G45. HCC’s normal distribution policy includes working projects, built with widely used tool-chains, for standar...	Full version Date: June 16 2010

	Boards
	Pentek, Inc. Pentek’s Virtex-6 FPGA Cobalt Quad-Channel Data Acquisition and Processing Board Excels with 200 MSPS at 16 bits Configurable memory up to 2 GB DDR3 SDRAM or 32 MB QDRII+ SRAM VITA 42.0 XMC and Gen 2 PCI Express support up to X8 *Onboard Virtex-6 FPGA precon... Pentek, Inc., today announced a new member of its Cobalt™ product family leveraging Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs for high-performance data acquisition and signal processing – the 71660 four-channel data acquisition module. The instrument targets radar and communications applications requiring next-generation performance and is a natural follow-on to Pentek’s popular Virtex-5 FPGA 7150 board family, improving signal quality and tripling DSP resources. “The 71660 delivers critical performance levels previously unattainable and provides an excellent technology-insertion path for existing applications,” said Roger Hosking, vice president of Pentek. “Its four front-end data acquisition channels offer the industry’s highest resolution and the back-end PCI Express interface offers at least four time...	Full version Date: June 15 2010

	Kontron AG High-performance IPv4/IPv6 Kontron Gigabit Ethernet Switch VX3910 for VPX and OpenVPX platforms The new Kontron Gigabit Ethernet Switch VX3910 offers 3U VPX and OpenVPX platforms Enterprise-Class Switching functionality with 28 Gigabit Ethernet ... Eching, Germany/Paris, France June 14, 2010 - The new Kontron Gigabit Ethernet Switch VX3910 offers 3U VPX (VITA 46.x) and OpenVPX (VITA 65) platforms Enterprise-Class Switching functionality with a total of 28 Gigabit Ethernet ports and advanced management features. With its implemented Kontron Embedded Network Technology, which offers the same advanced feature set and operational interfaces across multiple form factors, it simplifies IPv4/v6 inter-and intra-platform networking, reducing both time-to-market and development efforts for open application-ready and long-term available COTS platforms. The non-blocking fully managed L2/L3 Gigabit Switch Kontron VX3910, with its 20x Gigabit ports to the backplane offers the highest port density for the implementation of various networ...	Full version Date: June 14 2010

	PragmaDev PragmaDev to assign Hongke as its Chinese distributor. PragmaDev has assigned Hongke as the Chinese distributor of Real Time Developer Studio, PragmaDev set of model driven tools for the development of re... Real Time Developer Studio is based on standard graphical representations of traditional concepts used in the real time domain without leaving behind legacy code and years of experience. Real Time Developer Studio can generate full application code out of the graphical model embedding RTOS system primitives.The connection with cross-debuggers allows debug on target in the diagrams and at C level, as well as graphical dynamic traces. Chu Jie, VP of Hongke, commented: "With strong expertise in the Embedded Systems Industry, Hongke is willing to cooperate with Pragmadev in order to develop the Chinese market". "China was the only country missing in our network of distributors. I am very happy to have Hongke to fill in that gap as PragmaDev technology perfectly fits in Hongke range of pro...	Full version Date: June 14 2010

	Pebble Bay Consulting Pebble Bay Joins National Microelectronics Institute Pebble Bay seeks to share knowledge and expertise with the wider Embedded Systems Industry.... Pebble Bay seeks to share knowledge and expertise with the wider Embedded Systems Industry. Leading UK embedded systems engineering consultancy, Pebble Bay, have announced that they have joined the National Microelectronics Institute (NMI), a trade association representing the semiconductor industry in the UK and Ireland. The NMI’s objective is to help build and support a strong micro and nano-electronics community by acting as a catalyst and facilitator for both commercial and technological development. Pebble Bay assists technology companies in the development and optimisation of microprocessor based systems (embedded systems). Pebble Bay are experts in software/hardware integration and also in the adoption of new technologies. Working with companies across the world, Pebble Bay h...	Full version Date: June 6 2010

	Kontron 3U CompactPCI IPv4/v6 Kontron Gigabit Ethernet Switch CP3923 with superior price & performance Kontron´s fully managed Gigabit Ethernet Switch CP3923 offers up to 16 Gigabit Ethernet ports and is a cost-effective high-performance solution for h... Eching, Germany, June 10, 2010 – Kontron announced today the latest member of the 3U CompactPCI product family for IPv4/v6 communication networks and network-centric applications: the Kontron Gigabit Ethernet Switch CP3923. With up to 16 Gigabit Ethernet ports, the Kontron CP3923 fully managed switch is a cost-effective high-performance solution for harsh environments. The target markets include networking, transportation, aerospace, military and automation. “The new 3U CompactPCI switch is designed to meet the growing demand for high performance IPv4/v6 Ethernet switching for rugged intra- and inter-system communications. With its implemented Kontron Embedded Network Technology, that unifies an advanced feature set and a wide range of operational interfaces across multiple form factor...	Full version Date: June 6 2010

	Kontron Kontron CompactPCI processor board CP6002 brings latest Intel Core i7 performance to 6U systems Kontron introduced the CPCI processor board CP6002 based on the Intel Corei7 mobile processor technology for leading-edge performance with low power ... Eching, Germany, June 08, 2010 – Today Kontron introduced the 6U CompactPCI processor board CP6002 based on the latest Intel Corei7 mobile processor technology. It is designed to bring leading-edge performance with low power consumption and low heat dissipation to a broad range of applications in the communications, military, aerospace, medical, industrial and monitoring systems markets. With the 2.53 GHz Intel Core i7-610E and the LV 2.0 GHz Intel Core i7-620LE, the long term available Kontron CP6002 not only speeds up multiprocessing tasks via hyper-threading technology (HTT), but also processes single-threaded tasks much faster thanks to the new Intel Turbo Boost technology. This allows for a clock speed of up to 3.33GHz without exceeding the defined thermal design power (TDP) and ...	Full version Date: June 8 2010

	UK Embedded Masterclass Power Point Ban Proves An Outright Winner for TTE Systems Dr Michael Pont of TTE Systems Ltd was voted "The Best Presenter" at the recent UK embedded systems conference. ... Organisers of the recent UK Embedded Masterclass, an annual hi-tech developers conference, have announced that Dr Michael Pont of TTE Systems Ltd was voted "The Best Presenter". With just a whiteboard and his wit and charm, Michael discussed the advantages of developing software using a 'Time-Triggered' methodology, as opposed to a multi-tasking interrupt driven software architecture. Michael's performance was dynamic, informative, humorous at times and serious when relating his technology to safety critical issues. In many ways, his message regarding 'time-triggered architectures' challenged the traditional approach to software development, ensuring that the presentation was both provocative and compelling. In addition to this, Michael expressed a deep understanding of real-time embe...	Full version Date: June 2 2010
	Industry News (Personnel)
	Green Hills Software Green Hills Software extends support for Cavium Networks OCTEON II family of multicore microprocessors Embedded software leader optimizes Its multicore embedded software solutions for Cavium’s OCTEON II Internet Application Processor (IAP)... Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, has announced the availability of Green Hills Software’s multicore embedded software solutions for the OCTEON® II family of multicore processors from Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications, and the digital home. The new OCTEON II IAP processor family is designed to fuel the voice, video and data convergence driven by mobile internet, enterprise and data center applications that require a dramatic increase in intelligent packet processing, secure application delivery and quality-of-service (QoS) performance. Green Hills Software’s feature-rich portfolio of software solutions has been optimized t...	Full version Date:5/20/2010 3:27:00 PM

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