Dedicated Systems e-Spotlight: Vol 8, Issue 36s published on October 25, 2007
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SDC Systems
RapiTime Code Analysis Tool Gets Eclipsed
The new RapiTime 1.3 version includes full Eclipse based RapiTime report visualisation, fast display of very large reports, integration with standard C Eclipse based source code editor and source code worst-case path col...
RapiTime Code Analysis Tool Gets Eclipsed
RapiTime 1.3
version to be demonstrated at UK Embedded System Show
Rapita
Systems have announced that their acclaimed software analysis tool
RapiTime has undergone a number of significant updates, a key feature
being that RapiTime is now integrated with the industry standard Eclipse
IDE. Rapita's state-of-the-art RapiTime worst-case execution time analysis
solution has enjoyed a great deal of success and recognition since its
inception and the additional features are expected to broaden its appeal
amongst embedded software developers.
The new RapiTime 1.3 version
includes full Eclipse based RapiTime report visualisation, fast display of
very large reports, integration with standard C Eclipse based source code
editor a...
Date : Oct 17, 2007 
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Industry News (Financial)
Enea Embedded Technology S.a.r.l.
Enea publishes today interim report for the third quarter, 2007
Enea publishes today interim report for the third quarter, 2007...
Third Quarter
Net sales increased by 9 percent to SEK 183.8
(168.6) million. Currency-adjusted growth was 11 percent.
Software
sales climbed 4 percent to SEK 72.8 (69.8) million. Currency-adjusted
growth was 7 percent.
Operating profit was SEK 16.4 million (17.2).
Operating margin was 9 (10) percent.
Net profit after tax was SEK 11.6
(12.5) million and earnings per share totaled SEK 0.03
(0.03).
January - September
Net sales increased by 8 percent to
SEK 588.4 (543.8) million. Currency-adjusted growth was 10
percent.
Software sales climbed 13 percent to SEK 227.6 (201.4)
million. Currency-adjusted growth was 16 percent.
Operating profit rose
to SEK 47.6 (46.8) million. Operating margin was 8 (9) percent.
Net
profit after tax ros...
Date: Oct 25, 2007 
Enea Embedded Technology S.a.r.l.
Enea Launches repurchasing program of own shares
Stockholm, October 24, 2007 - The Annual General Meeting in Enea AB resolved on May 15, 2007 to authorize the Board during the period until the next Annual General Meeting to repurchase Enea shares. After the acquisition...
In support of this decision, the Board of Enea has decided to
acquire a maximum of 18 355 000 shares. Shares will be acquired at OMX
Nordic Exchange in Stockholm for a price within the registered share price
interval at the time of each transaction.
The purpose of the share
repurchase program is to continuously be able to adjust the capital
structure of Enea to the financial needs of the company and to enable
financing, fully and partly, of acquisitions.
Enea does not own
any Enea shares before the launch of the share repurchase program. The
number of registered Enea shares today amounts to 367 114 264.
The
information provided herein is such that Enea AB is obligated to disclose
pursuant to the Securities and Clearing Operations Act and/or the
Financial Instrum...
Date: Oct 25, 2007 
Industry News (Market)
Enea Embedded Technology S.a.r.l.
Enea Announces Middleware Support For SA Forum Compliant MicroTCA Hardware
Company to Showcase Support at the Third Annual AdvancedTCA
Summit, Representing the First Working Demonstration of its Kind
..
Stockholm, Sweden, and Santa Clara, Calif., ATCA Summit, Oct.
16, 2007 - Enea (Nordic Exchange/Small Cap/ENEA), a world-leading provider
of network software and services, today announced that its carrier-grade,
high availability middleware platform, ElementT now supports Emerson
Network Power´s MicroTCA Development System. Enea will be demonstrating
this solution at the AdvancedTCA Summit to be held October 16 - 18 ,2007
in Santa Clara, California as a compelling example of a working
combination of MicroTCA hardware, carrier-grade operating system and
Linux-supported, high availability management
middleware.
The demonstration will feature the Enea Element
middleware running on Emerson Network Power´s MicroTCA Development System,
and will showcase capabilities ...
Date: Oct 23, 2007 
SDC Systems
MontaVista Software Expands Sales, Support, and Services in the U.K. and the Republic of Ireland
Distributor SDC addresses growing demand for embedded Linux® software and services...
London, UK. - 18 October, 2007 - MontaVista Software, Inc.,
the leading provider of Linux® for intelligent devices and communications
infrastructure, today announced that it is expanding its sales, support,
and services for device designers and embedded developers in the U.K. and
the Republic of Ireland by the appointment of SDC Systems Limited (SDC) as
a distributor of MontaVista products in those regions. Under terms of the
agreement, SDC will market and distribute MontaVista® products and also
provide technical support and professional services for software
developers. SDC will provide resources in addition to the sales, support,
and services MontaVista currently provides from their office in Bracknell,
England.
"SDC are well established and have a solid reputation for
their ex...
Date: Oct 18, 2007 
RTOS
AVIX-RT
AVIX-RT releases version 2.01 of the AVIX RTOS with memory support and increased performance
AVIX-RT has released version 2.01 of its AVIX RTOS for Microchip PIC24 and dsPIC. Most important addition is support for memory pools. Furthermore a number of significant performance enhancements have been made, making i...
AVIX-RT has released version 2.01 of its AVIX RTOS for
Microchip PIC24 and dsPIC. Most important addtion is support for memory
pools usable from user threads and Interrupt Service Routines. The
mechanism works with pools of fixed size blocks where both the number of
blocks in a pool and the size of a block are user specified. The mechanism
operates in a bound time making it suitable for use in hard real time
environments.
As part of this release a number of performance
enhancements have been made. Together with five major competing products,
AVIX is benchmarked against the open source Thread-Metric performance test
suite. This test suite contains seven tests where for five of these AVIX
has by far the best performance. For the other two tests, AVIX is second
(see figure). Informat...
Date: Oct 21, 2007 
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