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Android Accounts for 39% of Tablets Sold

Ken Cheung — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:32:21 +0000

Global tablet shipments grew to 26.8 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011. This is an all time-high and a 150% increase compared to the fourth quarter of 2010 (10.7 million units). According to Strategy Analytics, Apple iOS remains strong at 58% (15.4 million iPads). However, Android now accounts for 39% of tablets sold (29% a year earlier). Strategy Analytics expects demand for tablets among consumer, business and education users to remain strong.

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In-Stat Research: The Worldwide Emergence of Low-Cost Android Smartphones

Ken Cheung — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:50:06 +0000

In-Stat expects unit shipments for low-cost Android smartphones to reach almost 340 million worldwide in 2015. According to In-Stat, low-cost Android handset segment will cause some fragmentation in the Android platform. Low-cost Android smartphones will most likely be released with Android 2.2 or 2.3 because these versions offer a good blend of features with modest memory and processor usage. The Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) release requires more memory and processor demands, which makes the new version less attractive for low-cost Android devices.

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AVIX RTOS Supports IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM

Ken Cheung — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:17:22 +0000

AVIX-RT, the company behind the AVIX RTOS, today announced AVIX support for the IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM (IAR EWARM). The ultra-fast AVIX RTOS, which targets all commercially available Cortex-M3 microcontrollers, is a perfect match for IAR EWARM. In addition to enabling AVIX based applications development, AVIX-RT provides a kernel aware plug-in for the IAR EWARM environment. This plug-in seamlessly integrates with IAR EWARM and can be controlled entirely from within this environment. Using IAR EWARM combined with the AVIX plug-in allows for interactive monitoring of the status of all AVIX kernel objects through the plug-in provided Graphical User Interface.

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Wind River Linux 4, Update Pack 2

Ken Cheung — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:07:47 +0000

Wind River rolled out Wind River Linux 4, Update Pack 2. The commercial embedded Linux runtime and development platform includes a fully integrated graphics software stack, from the board to the user interface framework level, for the latest Intel and Texas Instruments’ processors. The pre-integrated graphics stack features GTK, Qt, X.Org and the Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite. The stack is optimized for embedded development.

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LiMo 4 Linux Based Platform

Ken Cheung — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:14:17 +0000

LiMo Foundation introduced version four of the Linux based LiMo Platform. LiMo 4 Platform offers complete middleware and base application functionality. It enables flexible disaggregation of the device platform and the service propositions such that operators and device manufacturers can more freely shape user propositions and secure sustainable long-term value. The first LiMo 4 devices are expected to be brought to market during the second half of this year. LiMo Foundation is a global consortium of mobile operators, device and handset vendors.

Apple iPad Users Unlikely to Switch to HP TouchPad

Ken Cheung — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:16:44 +0000

HP launched their new TouchPad a couple of days ago. On the surface, the TouchPad is an iPad clone. The sleek TouchPad has a 9.7″ touch display and weighs 1.6 pounds. However, the HP tablet features a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 1024×768 resolution, and webOS, which HP acquired when it purchased Palm last year. According to In-Stat, the key differentiators are not enough to compete with the Apple iPad and other tablets.

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PPCDroid Android Port for Power Architecture

Ken Cheung — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:54:48 +0000

An Android operating system (OS) port now is available as open source code for embedded systems. The port was a collaborative effort between IBM, Mentor Graphics, XGI (now part of SIS) and AppliedMicro. The feature set of the Android OS, and the performance and integration of Freescale and IBM processors based on Power Architecture can help embedded systems designers create products for networking, printing and imaging, industrial, storage and media equipment applications.

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Wind River, VIA Telecom Team on Kunlun Project for Android Smartphones

Ken Cheung — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:35:03 +0000

Wind River has teamed with VIA Telecom on a multiyear project, codenamed Kunlun, to help bring low-cost Android smartphones featuring high-end capabilities to regional original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for the Chinese code division multiple access (CDMA) market. The collaboration delivers an integrated software and hardware Android solution to help OEMs meet network operator requirements and deliver Android devices to market faster with greater engineering efficiencies.

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SYSGO to Certify PikeOS for IEC61508, EN50128 Safety Standards

Ken Cheung — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:47:11 +0000

SYSGO, a leading supplier of certifiable operating systems, is expanding its safety certification product offering to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61508 Standard and to EN 50128 railway industry standard defined by CENELEC, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization. The certification process will be conducted in cooperation with the internationally recognized safety certification authority TÜV.

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ReadyStart Embedded Software Platform Supports Stellaris ARM Cortex-M3

Ken Cheung — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:22:50 +0000

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) announced the Mentor® Embedded ReadyStart[tm] Platform support for the Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) Stellaris® ARM® Cortex[TM]-M3 microcontrollers (MCUs). The recently announced ReadyStart Platform is a “ready-to-use” solution comprising integrated software IP, tools, and services targeting popular hardware boards and system-on-chips (SoCs). The Mentor Embedded ReadyStart Platform for the Stellaris ARM Cortex-M3 9000 series of MCUs will be demonstrated at the ARM TechCon in Santa Clara, California, November 10-11, 2010.

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Mentor Embedded Nucleus RTOS Powers Over 2.3 Billion Mobile Devices

Ken Cheung — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:53:31 +0000

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) announced that the Mentor® Embedded Nucleus® Real Time Operating System (RTOS) has again topped worldwide adoption in the mobile handset market with use in over 2.345 billion devices, according to the VisionMobile’s 100 Million Club research report. The 100 Million Club is a watch-list of software companies whose products have been embedded in more than 100 million cellular handsets. The report was just published and the findings are available online.

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AVIX RTOS 4.0 Supports ARM Cortex-M3 Microcontrollers

Ken Cheung — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:23:36 +0000

AVIX-RT is proud to announce version 4.0 of its AVIX RTOS, which is available in a new port supporting a substantial number of microcontrollers based on the advanced ARM Cortex-M3 architecture. The new port, named AVIX for Cortex-M3, is fully ARM CMSIS compliant. Because of this, AVIX for Cortex-M3 supports the following Cortex-M3 based micro controllers:

Atmel – AT91SAM3(U/S)
Energy Micro – EFM32
NXP – LPC17x
ST Micro – STM32F
Texas Instruments – LM3S
Toshiba – TMPM330

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VDC Research Group Reports on Mobile Operating Systems

Ken Cheung — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:00:34 +0000

VDC Research Group’s recently published report on mobile operating systems indicates that today’s mobile devices are more dependent on robust, complex operating systems capable of supporting a diverse ecosystem of new software applications. However, it is no longer about a single component or components but instead about integrated solution stacks and the mobile operating systems that sit at the heart of them.

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SYSGO Virtualization PikeOS Supports LEON Processor, RTEMS OS

Ken Cheung — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:04:41 +0000

SYSGO, leading supplier of software solutions for the world’s most demanding safety and security applications, announced the availability of its flagship product PikeOS for the LEON processor based platforms. RTEMS applications can run concurrently with PikeOS native, ARINC-653 and POSIX applications thanks to the safe and secure virtualization technology provided by PikeOS.

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Over 2.1 Billion Handsets Feature Nucleus Real Time Operating System

Ken Cheung — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:01:04 +0000

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) announced that the Mentor Embedded[tm] Nucleus® Real Time Operating System (RTOS) is the handset industry’s most widely adopted RTOS, found in over 2.11 billion devices, according to the VisionMobile’s 100 Million Club research report. The 100 Million Club is a watch-list of software companies whose products have been embedded in more than 100 million cellular handsets. The Mentor Graphics® Nucleus RTOS product usage equates to 42% of the worldwide handset market, according to the study.

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SYSGO ELinOS Supports Cavium Networks OCTEON Plus MIPS64 Processors

Ken Cheung — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:00:27 +0000

SYSGO, leading supplier of software solutions for the world’s most demanding safety and security applications, announces the availability in its ELinOS product of support for Cavium Networks’s OCTEON Plus family. The new SYSGO support package combines the high performance at minimal power levels multi-core platform with industrial grade Linux for rapid development of reliable long-lived applications.

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McObject Supports Perst Embedded Database for Microsoft Windows Phone 7

Ken Cheung — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:07:52 +0000

In a classic example of the market driving the direction of a software product, McObject® announced it is offering support for its Perst[tm] object-oriented, open source embedded database on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 (WP7) smartphone platform, after Windows mobile software experts in the UK ported Perst (along with McObject’s related Silverlight demo) to WP7, and a Microsoft executive guiding WP7 developer relations described the port as “epic.”

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MathWorks Code Generation Tools Support Eclipse, Embedded Linux

Ken Cheung — Thu, 20 May 2010 11:31:27 +0000

MathWorks announced that its Target Support Package and Embedded IDE Link products now support the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) and Embedded Linux through the GNU compiler tool chain. As a result, engineers can automate project creation in Eclipse and deploy real-time embedded systems on Linux using automatically generated code from MATLAB and Simulink models. These capabilities enable engineers using Model-Based Design to rapidly implement and verify algorithms on processors that can run Embedded Linux, such as ARM, Freescale, and Intel.

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Mentor Graphics, NetLogic Team on Multi-Core Embedded Linux

Ken Cheung — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:03:22 +0000

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT), a leader in electronic design automation and embedded software solutions, announced a collaborative agreement with NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., a leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions for next-generation Internet networks. Under the agreement, Mentor Graphics Embedded Software Division will provide its Linux® technology on NetLogic Microsystems’ XLP[tm], XLR® and XLS® multi-core, multi-threaded processors. This collaboration furthers the recent announcement of both NetLogic Microsystems and Mentor Graphics as founding members of the eNsemble[tm] Multi-Core Alliance, an industry organization aimed at driving best-in-class innovations in multi-core parallel processing platforms and software development.

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Fusion Embedded Software Supports Micrium uC/OS-III RTOS

Ken Cheung — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:04:34 +0000

Unicoi Systems, providers of Fusion Embedded[TM] solutions, announces full support for Micrium’s µC/OS-III real-time operating system (RTOS). Fusion Embedded software is now fully ported to µC/OS-III, granting developers some of the industry’s most prolific and advanced embedded firmware solutions, empowered by expansive chip support from one of the most pervasive and reliable real-time operating systems on the market.

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ThreadX RTOS Supports Third-Generation Diamond Standard DPU Cores

Ken Cheung — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:17:11 +0000

Tensilica,® Inc. and Express Logic, Inc. announced that Express Logic’s ThreadX® real-time operating system (RTOS) is now available for Tensilica’s new third-generation Diamond Standard dataplane processor (DPU) cores. A free demo download of the ThreadX RTOS is available on the Tensilica web site. Designed for small-footprint, demanding real-time control, the ThreadX RTOS is a perfect match for the Diamond Standard family of general-purpose, low-power cores aimed at deeply embedded control and signal processing functions.

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Power Architecture Development Community Welcomes Enea

Ken Cheung — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:48:02 +0000

Power.org, the open collaborative organization that enables, develops and promotes standards for Power Architecture® technology, announced that Enea, a leader in multicore technology for communication-driven products, has joined the Power Architecture development community. Enea will add its knowledge to the collaborative effort advancing Power Architecture standards that enable high performance next generation solutions at lower costs and with faster development times. Enea is a world leader in the development of realtime operating systems (RTOS), hypervisors, development tools and interprocess communications technology (IPC) that simplify the transition to multicore processing platforms.

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Johns Hopkins University Tests LynxSecure for Real-Time Applications

Ken Cheung — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:04:23 +0000

LynuxWorks[TM], Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, announced that its LynxSecure separation kernel was independently tested with a series of performance tests at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), to help assess the use of separation kernels for future real-time, mission-critical systems.

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Wind River Partner Validation Program Targets Aerospace and Defense

Ken Cheung — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:09:43 +0000

Wind River launched its Partner Validation Program for the aerospace and defense market segment with initial partners AdaCore, aicas, ALT Software, Atego, Esterel Technologies, Presagis and PrismTech. Partners in the program will provide their software solutions integrated and validated with the latest releases of Wind River’s industry leading operating systems, VxWorks and Wind River Linux. These partner software solutions are specifically developed for avionics, secure military communications, unmanned systems, and complex control systems.

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Wind River, Cavium Networks Team on Multicore Solutions for OCTEON

Ken Cheung — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:01:02 +0000

Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, and Cavium Networks (NASDAQ:CAVM), an industry-leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products, announced a multi-year strategic partnership to co-market optimized VxWorks and Linux multicore solutions to networking and telecommunications customers worldwide. The companies will align long-term product roadmaps and Wind River will commercially support Cavium’s OCTEON® family of multicore processors through OCTEON II and a subsequent processor family with board support packages for Wind River’s diverse software portfolio.

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RADVISION Supports Google Android Operating System

Ken Cheung — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:54:02 +0000

RADVISION® Ltd. (Nasdaq: RVSN), a leading provider of video network infrastructure and developer tools for unified visual communications over IP, 3G and emerging next-generation IMS networks, announced that its technology now supports the Google Android Operating System. A wide range of new RADVISION developer products and solutions, from protocol stack level to comprehensive voice and video client frameworks, now enable visual communications to be embedded into all Android-based devices such as Mobile Phones, Mobile Internet Devices (MID), Netbooks, Tablet PCs, Digital Picture Frames (DPF) and Personal Media Players (PMP).

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RTXC Quadros RTOS Supports TI OMAP35x Processors

Ken Cheung — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:34:11 +0000

Continuing its focus on ARM-based processors, Quadros Systems, Inc., a leading provider of real-time operating systems (RTOS), announced support for the Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) OMAP[tm] 3 platform, which features an ARM Cortex-A8 architecture from ARM Ltd. Developers can now combine the efficiency and scalability of RTXC software family with the performance and energy efficiency of OMAP35x processors.

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HeartOS DO-178B Real-time Operating System Supports ARM7, ARM9

Ken Cheung — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:55:09 +0000

DDC-I, a leading supplier of software and professional services for mission- and safety-critical applications, announced that its safety-critical, DO-178B Level A certifiable, HeartOS real-time operating system and OpenArbor development tool suite is available for the ARM7[tm] and ARM9[tm] families of processors. The HeartOS running atop ARM® processors provides a scalable, low-power, high-performance computing platform for developing and hosting mission- and safety-critical applications for the avionics, transportation, industrial automation and medical markets. HeartOS is particularly well suited for applications requiring DO-178B certification from the FAA and international aviation authorities.

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SYSGO Introduced PikeOS 3.1 with Multi Core Support

Ken Cheung — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:32:51 +0000

SYSGO, leading supplier of software solutions for the world’s most demanding safety and security applications, announces the new 3.1 release of its flagship product PikeOS, which offers the first multi-core implementation on the market which is part of a DO-178B certified code basis. PikeOS, the first SSV (Safe and Secure Virtualization) based product from SYSGO, continues to differentiate itself from its competitors. The new 3.1 release maintains one of the main benefits of PikeOS technology: the same core components are used whatever market segment is targeted, avionics, industrial automation, transportation, medical, etc. Contrary to others, application specifics are isolated within “Personalities”, a SYSGO concept that allows all PikeOS customers to benefit from the same software layers underneath, PikeOS System Software and PikeOS micro-kernel.

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Aonix Debuts Aonix ObjectAda Real-Time for Wind River VxWorks 653 RTOS

Ken Cheung — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:04:48 +0000

Atego, the leading independent supplier of industrial-grade, modeling and development tools for complex, mission and safety-critical embedded systems and software, has announced the release of Aonix ObjectAda Real-Time for Windows targeting the Wind River VxWorks 653 multi-partition RTOS for PowerPC. This is the first release of the Aonix ObjectAda product with full Ada runtime support for the Wind River safety-critical platform.

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