Embedded E-cast

Does it seem like you're trapped between getting more out of a design, and how much battery power you have? It's a constant struggle for designers of handheld and mobile devices, who are pressing the limits on what can be done with software and processing power while still keeping devices very small and batteries lightweight. Solutions appearing apply not only to consumer electronics, but to things like portable medical devices, handheld scanners, field diagnostic equipment, and more.

Performance and cost have always been critical metrics for evaluating networking equipment. Multicore silicon offers an opportunity to optimize both.

Linux is the fastest-growing operating system for device development. Some striking advantages are its proven scalability and flexibility, and full source-code availability.

The challenge for EDA tool vendors in attacking electronic system level (ESL) design can be simply stated - provide the tools and methodologies that let system-on-chip (SoC) designers use abstract, system-level models to create implementation-ready (RTL) descriptions of their desired hardware. The challenge for designers, on the other hand, is in winding their way through the variety of point tools offered by the several dozen vendors who've stacked out a position in the ESL tool market.

With the accelerating pace of application development and evermore compressed product life cycles, the ability to re-use and migrate legacy software to new platforms is paramount. Migrating from legacy RTOS-based designs to embedded Linux presents a range of engineering challenges, but also opportunities for refining I/O architecture and formalizing system interfaces.

If you are involved in designing or developing carrier-grade network equipment, uninterrupted service and comprehensive network management are likely mission-critical requirements. This presentation will define how standards such as NETCONF and those published by the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) are shaping COTS solutions to meet availability and network management requirements in a manner that lowers project risk and helps you deploy new, revenue-generating applications on schedule.

The lack of timely and accurate access to sensor data negatively affects the warfighter every day. SigmaNETTM, from Mercury Computer Systems, is a combined hardware/software solution that addresses the data access issues by pushing exploitation close to the sensor, helping to deliver actionale information to the warfighter.

The requirement for 'instant-on' capability in consumer electronics, ranging from cellphones to mobile internet devices to automotive platforms, has become a necessity. Customers' expectations for instant data or multimedia access has been increasing with trendy gadgets being released in the market.

For the application developer, this ecast offers a hands-on look at multicore technology from the viewpoint of a chip vendor, a systems vendor, and an operating system software vendor. What performance gains can be expected by implementing multicore right, both in hardware and software? How can multicore benefits be maximized? What kinds of issues are designers facing and what tools are available for the latest multicore implementations? These and more ideas from the experts will be addressed in this event.

The Fourth Wave of the Internet is upon us, with millions of new users joining the inter-web every yearand tens of millions of connected devices are sharing everything from simple keywords to location-aware mash-up concert databases. Web 2.

LCD displays are finding their way into many, many devices as a simple way to implement an operator interface. But the days of hard-to-interface raw LCDs are over - many microcontrollers are integrating with LCD drivers and touch screen capability, and software is making small displays more useful and intuitive than ever.

Join technologists from Texas Instruments (TI) and VirtualLogix (VL) as they discuss multicore solutions for high density applications, as well as TI's current portfolio and product roadmap for future solutions for high performance applications such as telecom infrastructure, high performance and emerging medical, military communications, industrial inspection applications and more. Real-time virtualization from VL (VLX) enables a single TI DSP to support general purpose applications on Linux side by side with traditional DSP tasks.

With a shift to multi-core processors on the horizon, many embedded software developers can expect a sudden spike in software complexity in their future development projects. This creates a significant risk of missing tight schedules because of the challenges introduced by multi-core development.

Getting it right is the most profoundly important matter confronting system and software developers of safety-critical applications such as space flight, avionics, and any life-critical equipment. There are no predictable or predetermined answers.

Eclipse has ushered in a new generation of Integrated Development Environments and tools. Eclipse, though, was never intended to be used for embedded development, and has to be enhanced to meet the needs of embedded developers.