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ESE Magazine Jan/Feb 06 06 Industry Wireless design contest LANTRONIX is offering £7,000 in prizes for the best wirelessly network-enabled machines or devices, using a Lantronix WiPort 802.11b wireless embedded device server. Winners will be announced at the 2006 Embedded Systems Conference. www.lantronix.com/info/wirelesscontest Cell to 32 nanometres IBM, Sony Corporation and Toshiba, the team behind the “Cell” microprocessor design, and its underlying SOI (silicon-on-insulator) process technologies in 90 and 65 nanometre have begun a new, five-year phase of their joint technology development alliance. They plan to work together on fundamental research related to advanced process technologies at 32 nanometres and beyond. www.ibm.com/chips www.sony.net www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm Multicore with T-Engine IGNIOS has demonstrated SystemWeaver integrated with a T-Engine. The SystemWeaver API allows application software to be written, via a T- Kernel adaptation layer, and compiled independently of the number of underlying processing resources. The SystemWeaver IP core then manages the dynamic run-time distribution of software across all available processing resources in a multicore Fujitsu MB87Q1100 device, delivering the full potential of the hardware to the application. www.ignios.com Multicore processor family P.A. Semi, a secretive start-up, has unveiled the PWRficient processor family. Based on the IBM Power Architecture the family is 64-bit, multicore and scalable. The first PWRficient processor, a dual-core chip running at 2GHz, dissipates 5-13 watts (typical) depending upon the application. A modular architecture integrates cores, memory, south bridge, and high-speed I/O onto a single device. Target applications include high-performance computing, embedded datacom and telecom, storage, and embedded consumer applications. www.pasemi.com For a more detailed look at these stories please visit www.esemagazine.com Aardcase and the Were-Rabbit Part of the technology for creating “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were- Rabbit”, was Aardcase, a custom-developed computer. Capturing the images from up to 30 cameras directly to hard disc, it allows the animators to check the minute changes made from one frame the next in real time. Aardcase is a single board based PC with a passive backplane in a ruggedised 6U 19” rack mount case. The system includes a video capture PCI card, an optical drive for storing captured film, and two hard drives: video is stored on a high-performance SCSI drive while the operating system and software are held on a cost-effective ATA drive. www.sightsystems.co.uk Flash memory Spansion, which floated on NASDAQ in December, is going for the NAND portion of the cell phone market with its 90nm MirrorBit ORNAND family. The first product is 1Gb with a NAND interface. ORNAND combines the pricing of traditional NAND solutions with the reliability and highread performance of NOR Flash memory. Spansion plans to deliver complete memory subsystems of up to 3 gigabits to its customers GNU GPL revision THE FREE SOFTWARE Foundation and the Software Freedom Law Center are working on a revision of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). The first discussion draft was released for comment at the International Public Conference for GPLv3 at MIT on January 16 and 17, 2006. The last revision was more than 15 years ago and Gartner has predicted that by 2010 more than 75 percent of IT organizations will have formal acquisition and management this year that include MirrorBit NOR, MirrorBit ORNAND and random-access memory (RAM) from leading RAM providers in Multi-chip Packages and Package-on-Package. (POP), solutions with the reliability and high-read performance of NOR Flash memory. Meanwhile Renesas has announced that it will be dropping development of AG-AND flash memory chips with capacities of 8G bit and beyond. It will continue to supply customers with existing flash memory products, mainly 1G bit and 4G bit products for applications, including flash cards for mobile and digital still cameras, and portable music players. Renesas also entered into supply and strategic collaboration agreements with M-Systems, where Renesas will supply advanced multi-level cell (MLC), high- performance AG-AND flash memory, while M-Systems will contribute flash controllers and the TrueFFS flash management technology. www.spansion.com www.renesas.com www.m-systems.com 2006 technology trends Technology Futures, Inc. (TFI) list of significant technology trends for 2006 includes the democratisation of the Internet and the increased penetration of global broadband coverage to expand the Internet even more. This will lead to a greater threat to security and privacy extending to mobile devices and device-todevice networks. The digital home is entering the next level of acceptance, with the expansion of the electronic gaming and MP3 marketplace being a major driver. Public relations and marketing expenditures and projects will continue their shift to the public networks and the timeframe of the product life-cycle continues to decrease. www.tfi.com strategies dealing with Free Software. Publication of the second discussion draft is expected by summer 2006 and the final GPLv3 license is expected no later than spring 2007. http://gplv3.fsf.org
“The QNX Neutrino microkernel OS has the perfect DNA for multi-core processors” Dan Dodge. QNX CEO & CTO. Pioneer in distributed and multiprocessor computing. Introducing the QNX ® Momentics ® development suite Multi-Core Edition, the industry’s most comprehensive software platform for multi-core systems. Powered by the massively scalable QNX Neutrino ® RTOS, this fully integrated solution supports AMP, SMP, and BMP, a groundbreaking technology that simplifies code migration and future-proofs your designs for quad-core and beyond. It’s the latest innovation from QNX Software Systems, the undisputed leader in multiprocessing technology. Maximum Choice for Multi-Core Only QNX gives you the power to choose the best multiprocessing model for your multi-core design: Seamless resource sharing SMP BMP AMP Scalable beyond dual-core Limited Mixed OS environment Dedicated processor by function Inter-core messaging Fast Fast Slower Thread synchronization between cores Dynamic load balancing System-wide debug & optimization (OS primitives) (OS primitives) (application) Discover how Dan and the QNX team deliver the shortest migration path to multi-core. Call 1 800 676 0566 or visit www.qnx.com/innovate. QNX, Momentics, and Neutrino are trademarks or registered trademarks of QNX Software Systems GmbH & Co. KG and are used under license by QNX Software Systems International Corporation. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. 301789 MC339.08 QNX Unlocks the Power of Multi-Core Maximize performance. Eliminate complexity. Accelerate migration. Only QNX offers: ■ Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) for full developer control and fault tolerance ■ Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) for maximum concurrency and scalability ■ Bound Multiprocessing (BMP) for the fastest code migration and minimum design complexity ■ Transparent Inter-Processor Communication (TIPC) protocol for seamless Linux connectivity ■ System tracing tools for fast debugging and optimization of multi-core applications ■ Off-the-shelf BSPs for multi-core platforms based on MIPS ® , PowerPC ® , and x86 architectures
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