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OPEN Alliance SIG drives adoption of automotive Ethernet

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on November 10, 2011 10:28 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
NXP Semiconductors claims to be the first automotive semiconductor supplier to license Broadcom's BroadR-Reach Ethernet technology for in-vehicle networking, writes Richard Wilson.

The supplier is bidding to establish BroadR-Reach as an open, de facto standard for in-vehicle Ethernet. 

Broadcom, NXP, Freescale and Harman have formed an OPEN Alliance Special Interest Group (SIG) to drive the wide adoption of Ethernet in the automotive industry.
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GPL licensing issues surround Android

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on August 17, 2011 11:36 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Here's an Open Source-related story from our new Android blog, Eyes on Android - Android could be badly bitten by GPL licensing

A story on SlashGear suggests submerged issues about Android's licensing are becoming ever less subterranean... Google challenges Lodsys but Android faces legal firestorm over source sluggishness

Basically, it says that not all Android parties have been playing the Open Source game by the Open Source rules. The website makes the point that some Android OEMs may be keen to have 'Open Source' kudos without fully bothering about their side of the bargain...

SlashGear's Chris Davies writes:
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ARM cores and virtual prototyping

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on June 7, 2011 2:18 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Imperas - a virtualised software specialist, and a member of the ARM Connected Community - has released its first models of the Cortex-A family of ARM processor cores.

It says models of the ARM Cortex-A series of cores, along with models of the Cortex-M series of cores, are now available from Open Virtual Platforms (OVP - www.OVPworld.org/ARM). These include "example virtual platforms incorporating the cores and support for the cores in Imperas' advanced software development tools".
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Open source flavour to CSR, ARM Cortex-A5 licence deal

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on January 27, 2011 10:08 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
ARM has signed a license agreement with wireless chip firm CSR covering the Cortex-A5 MPCore and Cortex-A9 MPCore multicore processors, writes Richard Wilson.

CSR will use the multicore processors in a new range of chips for in-vehicle navigation and portable navigation devices.

"We are now positioned to fully respond to market needs by exploiting the total potential of ARM powered system-on-chip solutions for next generation consumer devices and automotive systems," said Kanwar Chadha, chief marketing officer, CSR.

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Bug Labs offers fast route to mobile network

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on October 25, 2010 2:51 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
An interesting US development to note. AT&T and Bug Labs, a modular open hardware development platform, have announced plans to launch BUG + 3G/GSM. This is a plug-and-play electronic tool kit that is intended to put network ready wireless modules in the hands of emerging device product developers, for a speedier path to launching kit targeting the company's mobile broadband network in the US.

According to the press release:
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A look at the development costs of Linux

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on November 26, 2009 11:07 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Check out a new Linux-related article on the site - Where is the cost in an embedded Linux system?

Written by Andy Lunness, programme manager at STMicroelectronics, he looks at the distribution of cost in an embedded Linux system.

In particular, he addresses the cost of the development effort, which he says any project manager will tell you is the major cost of projects. He also considers other factors, such as open source licensing, the cost in IT infrastructure, bills of materials, and time to market...

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RMI's 'Android' processor gets Samsung LED TV design-in

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on September 8, 2009 8:19 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
RMI has seen its MIPS-compatible Au1250 processor selected by Samsung Electronics for a range of portable LED TVs, writes Richard Wilson.

RMI's Au1250 Processor is the first MIPS-compatible SoC processor supported for Android aimed at media and communications applications.

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Copyleft and breaking the cycle of OS fragmentation

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on September 7, 2009 2:52 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
We've just updated the site with an interesting comment piece from LiMo. From Morgan Gillis, executive director of the LiMO foundation, to be precise. See Comment: Breaking the cycle of OS fragmentation

He begins:
The mobile software world is evolving at a rapid rate buoyed by the infusion of open source principles, methodologies, philosophies and licensing. While this is exciting and invigorating, it is also giving rise to a number of issues - some new, while others give us a sense of "déjà-vu".
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Microsoft sees the Linux light

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on August 6, 2009 3:08 PM | 2 Comments | No TrackBacks
Microsoft logo.jpgDidn't expect to be writing about Microsoft in this blog, but here we are. A bit late flagging this, from last week... but even Redmond is seeing the benefit of Open Source.

Microsoft has announced the release of 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. It apparently includes three Linux device drivers, which have been submitted to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux tree.

The drivers are intended to enhance the performance of the Linux operating system when virtualised on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V or Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.

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MIPS processor architecture gets Android

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on June 3, 2009 12:30 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Android logo 2.jpegMIPS Technologies has ported Google's Android operating system to the MIPS processor architecture, aiming to expand the use of Android beyond phones, into digital TVs, mobile internet devices, digital picture frames and set-top boxes.

"Initially finding success in the mobile phone market, Android is now set to move into other digital consumer devices," said the processor firm. "Android's ready-to-use software stack provides a device-agnostic application development platform, and a common framework for the industry."

The source code will be made publicly available within 60 days, according to MIPS, whose licensees are demonstrating Android products at Computex in Taipei.
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Qt becomes LGPL

By Richard Danter - Wind River on January 14, 2009 2:51 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
RichardDanter Nokia has announced that the Qt library will, from the upcoming 4.5 release, be licensed under the LGPL 2.1 license in addition to the existing GPL and commercial licenses.
Continue reading Qt becomes LGPL.
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