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The embedded Linux software supplier has unveiled edition 5.0 of its Linux and development platform, which it claims has performance matching that of traditional real-time operating systems.

How many executives actually "tear apart" their businesses and analyze what's under the hood? Electronic Business Executive Editor Debra Bulkeley wants to know what C-level execs do to get a pulse on how their company is working, in this Strategy Session blog entry.

In this Strategy Session blog entry, Executive Editor Debra Bulkeley offers a challenge.

Organization that was once synonymous with IBM's PowerPC chip now follows Big Blue's ecosystem model.

SMSC's INIC eLITE promises North American auto engineers the advantages of distributed systems, without making the jump to full-blown MOST.

Renesas has announced at this week's ESC conference a complete Linux solution for its 32-bit SuperH microprocessors.

Robert LeFort, president and CEO of ZigBee-player Ember, talks about how the embedded and discrete worlds will collide, and what it means to the average consumer.

In this Practical Chip Design blog entry, EDN Executive Editor Ron Wilson highlights one of the continuing projects at European microelectronics research consortium IMEC is the construction of a body-area network of biosensors wirelessly linked to a central data reduction and wide-area network interface device, which proving to be a benchmark design problem for the new discipline of low-energy chip design, engaging every level of design expertise from architectural planning to cell design.

Programmable logic player Xilinx Inc. introduced this week its new low-cost Spartan-DSP series with development boards and enhanced design software as part of its family of XtremeDSP solutions.

Former Vice President Al Gore delivered an impassioned speech at the Embedded Systems Conference Tuesday morning, linking the climate crisis to the engineering crisis in the United States and describing how the challenge of global warming could be used as an opportunity to attract a new generation of engineers.

Mike Uhler, Chief Technology Officer at MIPS, sounds off on multicore, the difference between hard and soft processors, and the new competition.

Intel has announced two new Quad-Core Xeon embedded processors, the E5335 and E5345, which offer extended lifecycle support (five to seven years).

The Arizona-based microcontroller supplier has added eight new members to its PIC24F 16-bit microcontroller family, touting some of its new releases as the world's first with 64 Kbytes of flash in 28-pin packages.

While most exhibitors at the Embedded Systems Conference hawk their latest chips or intellectual property, IMEC—the Belgian research house—showed up with a different kind of pitch. It created a reference design for software-defined radio.

The update provides performance improvements and better tuning for the different ARM processors, most notably for the Cortex family and the new Cortex-M1 processor.

Company claims microcontrollers deliver 80 Dhrystone MIPS while consuming only 40 mA at 66 MHz when operating from a 3.3V power supply.

Phil Hester, chief technology officer at AMD, says the role for general purpose silicon processors in the embedded world will eclipse soft processors in the near future.

San Jose—At a black-tie event here tonight kicking off the Embedded Systems Conference, EDN announced the winners of its 17th Annual Innovation Awards.

Etnus changed its name to TotalView Technologies this week at ESC as it announced its new multicore debugging framework. The framework consists of five core components addressing the source code, memory, performance, data-centric views, and active Web support.

Pure-play flash memory solutions provider Spansion Inc. announced today it has closed the sale of Spansion Japan's older JV1 and JV2 manufacturing facilities in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan to Fujitsu Ltd. and to Fujitsu's subsidiary company, Fujitsu Semiconductor Technology Inc.