
	Dedicated Systems e-Gazette: Volume11, Issue 11 published on Aug 12, 2010
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	Industry News (Market)
	E2MOS ATCA World: your electronic copy is available for FREE download ATCA World is a new multi-vendor newsletter published by e2mos. ... ATCA or AdvancedTCA means Advanced Telecom Computer Architecture. Intel was one of the main promoters and it all started in 2002. The new newsletter will be focusing on HW & SW COTS from silicon to application ready systems for Next Gen Communications and Networks showcasing the latest in “best-in-class” technology solutions from leading Embedded Vendors for your “Make-or-Buy” decisions. What are the ATCA products? • Servers application ready • Boards and related HW for integrators to build their own system “à la carte” • There are mezzanine boards available offering many functions and can be plugged into the ATCA boards; these are AMC cards or Advanced Mezzanine Cards. Those same AMC cards can be used directly in a smaller chassis called MicroTCA (see picture) What is ATCA and ...	Full version Date: August 12

	Green Hills Software Green Hills Software to Showcase Operating System with CENELEC EN 50128 Railway Safety Certification at Innotrans Green Hills Platform for Industrial Safety Provides Comprehensive Safety-critical Software Development Solution for Safe Rail Transportation Applic... Innotrans 2010, Berlin – Hall 5.1, Booth 114 Green Hills Software to Showcase Operating System with CENELEC EN 50128 Railway Safety Certification at Innotrans Green Hills Platform for Industrial Safety Provides Comprehensive Safety-critical Software Development Solution for Safe Rail Transportation Applications Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, will be showcasing its safety-certified railway system solutions at the Innotrans Fair in Berlin, 21-24 September 2010, in Hall 5.1, booth 114. Innotrans is an international industry showplace focusing on Railway Technology. The Green Hills Platform for Industrial Safety has achieved a SWSIL 4 safety certification for its INTEGRITY® RTOS (real-time operating system) for the string...	Full version Date: August 10

	AdaCore SPARK Pro Adopted by secunet for High-security Software Development High-assurance development environment selected to implement multi-level security workstation... NEW YORK, PARIS and BATH, England, July 27th, 2010 – The company secunet Security Networks AG, one of Germany’s largest IT security providers, announced today that it has adopted the SPARK Pro development environment. SPARK Pro, a Freely Licensed Open Source Software (FLOSS) product created by AdaCore and Altran Praxis, will be used by secunet as a strategic technology to build highly robust security-critical applications. The first secunet project to apply SPARK Pro will be the Multilevel Workstation, an interactive system for concurrently handling information of different security domains. To maintain confidentiality and integrity of all processed data, Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) are enforced on a single hardware platform. SPARK Pro was chosen by secunet becaus...	Full version Date: July 28

	Boards
	Pentek, Inc. Pentek's Programmable Multi-frequency Clock Synthesizer Offers System Flexibility and Quick Delivery * Simultaneous synthesis of up to five different clock frequencies * Independently programmable clocks from 50 MHz to 800 MHz * Eight clock outputs... Expanding on its popular multi-frequency clock synthesizer, Pentek, Inc. today announced the release of the user-configurable Model 7191 programmable clock synthesizer PMC module. Like its predecessor, the Model 7190, the new Model 7191 gives designers working with A/Ds and D/As a highly-precise clock source with the added flexibility of custom frequency generation under simple software control. “Multichannel A/D and D/A systems for most radar and communication applications require synchronized sampling using precision clocks,” said Rodger Hosking, vice president of Pentek. “The Model 7191 is ideal when the desired clock frequency is not initially known, such as in laboratory systems or field-configurable deployed applications." Hosking added, "As a user programmable PMC module clock ...	Full version Date: July 27

	Pebble Bay Pebble Bay Launch Embedded Systems Development Workshops Pebble Bay have announced that they will be running a series of workshops that will assist engineers in understanding the fundamentals of developing ... Leading embedded systems development experts, Pebble Bay, have announced that they will be running a series of workshops that will assist engineers in understanding the fundamentals of developing code for embedded systems. Covering topics ranging from cross development to hardware interface development; these workshops offer a valuable opportunity for engineers to learn from Pebble Bay's many years of experience. They will be held at Birmingham and Bristol on the 28th and 30th September respectively. More information is available at http://www.pebblebay.com/content/new-workshop-series-days "These workshops are intended to really 'lift the lid' on embedded systems development," said Ian Willats, Managing Director of Pebble Bay. "The aim of these sessions is to introduce the basic princi...	Full version Date: July 26

	TEWS TECHNOLOGIES GmbH TEWS TECHNOLOGIES Introduces Extended Temperature and High-Density Full/Half Duplex Serial Communication cPCI Module TEWS TECHNOLOGIES extends its tradition of delivering high-density I/O solutions to CompactPCI with its introduction of the 4 channel TCP467, an exte... TEWS TECHNOLOGIES extends its tradition of delivering high-density I/O solutions to CompactPCI with its introduction of the 4 channel TCP467, an extended temperature and high density 3U CompactPCI Serial Communications Controller. The TCP467 is ideal for applications in transportation, communications, process control, and COTS. The new module provides 4 channels of high performance RS232/RS422/RS485 selectable serial connectivity. The serial channels can be individually programmed to operate as RS232, RS422 or RS485 full/half duplex interfaces. In addition, programmable termination is provided for the RS422/RS485 interfaces. After power-up all serial I/O lines are in a high impedance state for critical applications. Physical connection is achieved through front panel I/O with four RJ45...	Full version Date: July 22

	Green Hills Software Green Hills Software and RTI Expand Partnership to Ease Integration of Mission-Critical Devices RTI’s DDS-Compliant Middleware to Provide Enhanced Support for Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY RTOS... Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, and Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the global leader in Data Distribution Service (DDS), has announced that they have expanded their longstanding partnership. As a result, RTI’s DDS-compliant middleware will gain optimized support for Green Hills Software’s latest release of its safety and security-certified INTEGRITY® real-time operating system (RTOS).These enhancements include advanced support for INTEGRITY RTOS capabilities, such as Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) and Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP). RTI will also offer standard release support for the INTEGRITY RTOS on a broad range of microprocessor families, including those based on Intel Architecture (Core i3, i5, i7, Atom and Xeon) and a wide...	Full version Date: July 19

	RTOS
	Green Hills Software Green Hills Software expands platform for wireless devices Extends partnership with Silex Technology to add support for low power Atheros AR6002 Radio-on-Chip modules ... Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software, today announced that it has expanded support for its Platform for Wireless Devices. Built on the secure foundation of the INTEGRITY® RTOS, this platform now includes wireless driver support for Atheros Communications AR6002-based 802.11a/b/g SDIO radio modules. Green Hills has also extended its partnership with Silex Technology to offer support and services for customers deploying Wi-Fi-enabled products based on the Atheros family of radio modules. “We are pleased to be expanding our support for the Green Hills Platform for Wireless Devices in response to the growing customer demand for INTEGRITY integration and support,” said Kelly Oberle, vice president of product management, Silex Technology America. “O...	Full version Date: July 6

	Passive Components
	Kontron AG Kontron 4U Backplane xPB-13E9P3: PICMG 1.3-compliant backplane for PCI Express Gen 2 system designs The new Kontron 4U COTS backplane offers impressive bandwidth and configuration flexibility with 32 PCIe lanes and three PCI slots to tackle bandwidt... Eching, Germany, July 06, 2010 – The new Kontron 4U Backplane xPB-13E9P3 for PICMG 1.3-based system designs boasts comprehensive PCI and PCI Express Gen 2 support for full-height 4U systems. With double the PCIe lanes of any previous solution, 32 in total, the PICMG 1.3-compliant backplane tackles bandwidth-intensive applications with its cost-effective and densely-packed design for use with standard PCIe and PCI extension cards. In order to support any standard PCIe extension card, an integrated non-blocking switch doubles the 16 PCI Express lanes from the system host board (SHB) to the four PCIe x4 Gen 2 slots and the PEG slot on the backplane. The switch is configurable via software, allowing each of the x4 slots to be individually populated with x1, x2 or x4 I/O cards. The PCIe ban...	Full version Date: July 6

	Systems
	Kontron AG Kontron Industrial Silent Server KISS 4U KTC5520 brings latest dual Intel Xeon performance to extended environmental conditions The extended ATX-based industrial server is the fastest KISS server ever, offering up to dual Intel Xeon 5600 Series processors and up to 12 processi... Eching, Germany, July 05, 2010 – Kontron's first industrial server offering a feature-rich integrated Extended ATX motherboard, the Kontron Industrial Silent Server KISS 4U KTC5520, is a highly robust and long-term available open standard platform, offering up to dual Intel Xeon 5600 Series processors. Up to 12 processing cores designed with new 32 nm technology offer high performance density and make it a perfect fit for virtualization functionality, allowing formerly separate apps to be moved onto a single, cost-effective system. Compared to conventional servers, a unique feature of the Kontron Industrial Silent Server KISS 4U KTC5520 is its ability to operate in harsh environmental conditions. It features an operating temperature range of 0° to 50°C, an operating humidity range of 1...	Full version Date: July 6

	Green Hills Software Curtiss-Wright Controls adds support for Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY® RTOS on its VPX6-187 QorIQ™ P4080 Single Board Computer Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, and Green Hills Software have announced the availability of an INTEGRITY® real-time operating system (RTO... Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, OpenVPX™, VXS and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market, and Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, have announced the availability of an INTEGRITY® real-time operating system (RTOS) board support package (BSP) from Green Hills Software for the VPX6-187 Power Architecture® QorIQ™ P4080 single board computer (SBC). The new BSP enables system developers to build complete embedded hardware/software solutions based on Green Hills Software’s certified safe and secure INTEGRITY RTOS for high-performance modular computing and integrated ...	Full version Date: June 29

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