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Raspberry Pi number 1 goes for £3,500 on eBay

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on January 16, 2012 8:45 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Raspberry PiThe Raspberry Pi  project is almost a perfect example of open source engineering story. Well, it has started in popular fashion - a £20 Raspberry Pi computer sold for £3,500 on eBay last week, writes Steve Bush.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation, which intends to sell its educational computers directly, auctioned 10 of its beta production board on eBay.

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ARM releases Development Studio 5 Community Edition for Andorid

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on November 30, 2011 9:26 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
ARM releases free native Android app toolkitFor small firms, ARM has released Development Studio 5 Community Edition, a free version of its reference software development toolkit, writes our technology editor Steve Bush.

Known as DS-5 CE. "the new edition is dedicated to the Android application developer community and helps them create native software for compute intensive tasks that can run up to 4 times faster than Java code," claimed the firm. "DS-5 CE includes limited, but essential functionality from the premium DS-5 toolkit to help solve common Android application developer pain points."
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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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FreeRTOS moves to v7.0 adding software timer

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on May 13, 2011 1:39 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Version 7.0 of the open-source real-time operating system FreeRTOS has been released, adding a software timer, a port to the MSP430X microcontroller, and two additional 'demos', writes Technology Editor Steve Bush.

The timer is the first time FreeRTOS has used a 'daemon task' - a task which is providing services to applications - as until now every thing has been built into the kernel.

"The major difference in 7.0 is the introduction of a new software timer implementation," FreeRTOS creator Richard Barry told Electronics Weekly. FreeRTOS tries to do things in an efficient way and this timer I am very happy with from an efficiency point of view. It doesn't use any CPU time unless there is actual processing to be done."

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MIPS to build community for Android developers

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on April 19, 2011 11:16 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
MIPS Technologies has launched a developer community for software developers working with the Android platform, writes Richard Wilson.

The online community will also be relevant for anyone developing Linux operating system based applications on MIPS-based hardware.

"This new community demonstrates our ongoing commitment to the vibrant open source effort around the MIPS cores and architecture," said Art Swift, v-p of marketing and business development at MIPS Technologies.
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Open Source Hardware gets draft definition

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on September 24, 2010 2:51 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
OSH summit logo.gifThe Open Hardware Summit 2010 - at the new York Hall of Science - may have sold old, but keep an eye on the website - www.openhardwaresummit.org

Apparently, the organisers will be videoing the event for those that can't attend, and the site also provides OSHW Draft Definition 0.3...

It states:
OSHW Draft Definition 0.3 is based on the Open Source Definition for Open Source Software and draft OSHW definition 0.2, further incorporating ideas from the TAPR Open Hardware License. Videos and Documentation of the Opening Hardware workshop which kicked off the below license are available here.

BeagleBoard open source project gets shot in the ARM

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on June 24, 2010 11:33 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
BeagleBoard, the ARM-based development board from Texas Instruments, has caused a stir in the open source community, but it might not ever have appeared without the intervention of component distributor Digi-Key, writes Steve Bush.

"It was developed with a little bit of seed funding from TI," BeagleBoard software architecture manager Jason Kridner told Elctronics Weekly. "In order to reach the right price point, we had to order 1,000 at a time with a commitment for 10,000."

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ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, TI set-up open source Linaro

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on June 15, 2010 2:17 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Linaro logo.jpgA group of semiconductor companies are co-ordinating their approachs to the growing use of Linux-based open-source software in mobile communications devices, writes Editor Richard Wilson.

ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have set-up a not-for-profit open source software engineering company to be called Linaro.

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STMicroelectronics speaker at SHARE on-line event

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on March 19, 2010 2:05 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
We're happy to promote this one - a SHARE SIG on-line event. The organisation's slogan is 'Improving European Embedded System Industry through Open Source SW Sharing'.

On the 22nd of March 2010, at 11 (GMT +1) it will be hosting the 'Open Source Software and enterprises: the Bellagio story'. The main speaker is Giulio Urlini from STMicroelectronics, and the abstract is:
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MathWorks aims tools at embedded Linux

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on March 17, 2010 11:18 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
The MathWorks has announced the latest release of its MATLAB and Simulink product families, writes Richard Wilson, which include new streaming capabilities for signal processing and video processing in MATLAB and nonlinear solvers for standard and large-scale optimisation.

Release 2010a also introduces Simulink PLC Coder, which helps industrial control system engineers generate IEC 61131 structured text.

This release updates 83 other products, including PolySpace code verification products.

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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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Intel talks Open Source

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on October 12, 2009 5:26 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Open Source at Intel.jpgJust to share what was new to me - Intel has an Open Source Software landing page on its website, bringing together different elements of its coverage: Moblin developments, tools and resources, events, multimedia, developer content, project contributions, etc.

You can find Open Source at Intel at http://software.intel.com/sites/oss/

They've also created an Open Source element of the Intel "blogosphere" (dread phrase). You can find their various blog posts that are filed under the category of Open Source at http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/category/open-source/


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