VME and Critical Systems

Evologics show S2C advantages to Marine Science and Ocean Technology community

Evologics Gmbh — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:04:52 -0800

S2C signals have shown reliability advantages for data transmission and positioning in particular under noisy environments, shallow waters and confined waters.

Evologics will share with participants of the congress its experience with sub-sea monitoring, sub-sea production systems, operation of robots, AUVs (and ROVs) and for wireless acoustic networks. The extraordinary reliability practically achieved and affirmed by independent international tests, pushes the envelope in ocean business and offshore operations to areas that were not yet thought to be possible. Advanced algorithms guarantee maximum channel utilization under all conditions, data delivery and simultaneous command transmission.

For the first time, EvoLogics will officially present Sonobot, an autonomous cartography and surveillance robot with an integrated high precision S2C bionic sonar, differential GPS amongst other sensors.

EvoLogics GmbH is a high-tech enterprise specialized in the production of underwater acoustic communication and positioning equipment and innovative solutions for robotics.

Oceanology International (OI 2010) is to be held on 9-11th March, 2010 in London, UK. Oceanology International is the world’s premier meeting place for the marine science and ocean technology community.

Geensoft launches Reqtify 2010

Geensoft — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:26:52 -0800

Brest, France - 8th March 2010. Geensoft, the specialist independent provider of software design tools and associated professional services for embedded systems development, has launched Reqtify 2010, a major new version of its award-winning tool suite for the automated management of embedded hardware and software requirements capture, traceability and impact analysis throughout the entire development lifecycle. Reqtify 2010 delivers improved productivity through an extensive range of new and enhanced plug-in tools, features and interfaces.

“Reqtify 2010 includes the most extensive range of new features and functions that we have introduced,” said Eric Larronde-Larretche, Geensoft’s Product Line Manager for Reqtify. “Approaching 10 year’s old, Reqtify’s well-proven technology is now firmly established in, and extremely widely used by, the embedded systems design community worldwide.”

Reqtify 2010 includes new Collaborative Project Management and Reviewer plug-in tools. The new Collaborative Project Management (CPM) plug-in considerably eases a previously painful and time-consuming process for OEMs relating to the collation and management of design partners’ requirements and traceability data. It enables project managers to consolidate all projects and sub-projects into one global Reqtify project, with automatic linkage of design artifacts to the original requirements. This enables remote teams to more easily undertake global impact analysis, measure requirements coverage and share results on an entire project throughout the development lifecycle. The new CPM plug-in includes a specific user management module allowing user profiles, rights and roles to be defined in order to facilitate access control. The Reviewer plug-in has also been completely re-built to make it more visually oriented, facilitate workflow customisation and improve the management of user rights.

Reqtify 2010’s range of new features is extensive. Links management is critical to requirements traceability and Reqtify 2010 now provides the ability to automatically highlight suspect links that have to be validated as soon as changes occur to covered requirements. A new Links Detail View has also been included where engineers can create, edit and analyse traceability and dependencies between project artifacts. It is also possible to define links as either traceability or dependency links so that the required coverage calculation is obtained. A completely reworked Management View enables engineers to easily check project progress and metrics using visual indicators for traceability achievements, requirement errors and quality. Rules Management has also been significantly improved with a new rules management cockpit that enables existing rules to be enabled/disabled using a simple check list and new rules to be created using a simple, intuitive rules editor. A new XML-based tester enables pre-analysis of data to be undertaken prior to the allocation of specific document types to analysis reports. Filters can now be defined with variable values instead of having to define separate filters for each value.

Reqtify 2010 also includes a range of new and enhanced interfaces. A new Eclipse CDT interface and tagger overcomes a major hole in Eclipse Workbench enabling requirements traceability to be easily added to the C/C++ code generated using the CDT capability. The IBM-Rational DOORS interface has also been upgraded to include Full Hierarchy analysis which can be used when there is no clear definition of Sections and Requirements. The interface for HP Quality Center has also been significantly enhanced to include support for Version 10. Improvements have also been made to the Microsoft Office suite and to Sparx Enterprise Architect interfaces.

“With over 10,000 users in 500 companies in Europe, North America and Asia, the launch of Reqtify 2010 further reinforces our position as the market leader in the automated management of requirements gathering, traceability and impact analysis for embedded systems,” said Eliane Fourgeau, CEO of Geensoft. “It also highlights our commitment to the ongoing development of our products and importance as a strong, independent player in the market for embedded systems design tools following our recent management buy-out from Geensys.”

About Reqtify

Reqtify is the most widely deployed solution for addressing requirements capture, traceability and impact analysis in the most demanding, safety-critical domains such as the aerospace and defence, railway transportation, automotive and medical instrumentation industries. Reqtify enables automatic and customisable document generation as evidence that a product meets certification and/or quality constraint requirements at all times throughout the development cycle. Thanks to its impact analysis and requirements coverage capabilities, Reqtify gives all project stakeholders a thorough insight into the effort required to complete each project task (specification, design, V&V activities, integration) and for each product release. It gives a unique and global view of the overall project status enabling project leaders and quality managers to perform risk analyses and to prove compliancy with project requirements and constraints. As such, Reqtify is recognised as a solution that can provide an immediate return-on-investment for projects initiated under quality standards objectives like CMMI or SPICE. It has also been deployed or qualified for application development under certification constraints like DO178C, DO254, EN50128, IEC 61508, ISO26262, FDA 21CFR Part 11, MODAF and DoDAF. With Reqtify, engineers can continue to use their existing working environments to fulfill traceability objectives.

About Geensoft

Geensoft delivers industry-proven, best-in-class embedded systems development tools and professional services that help engineering teams in the aerospace, automotive, defence, energy, industrial automation, medical and transportation industries to more efficiently manage their engineering processes as well as design, verify and validate their model-based embedded systems applications. Privately owned with 60+ employees and headquartered in France, Geensoft has sales offices in Europe and Japan supported by a network of distributors and value-added integrators worldwide. Geensoft’s products include the award-winning Reqtify, ControlBuild and AUTOSAR Builder as well as RT-Builder tool suites. Reqtify provides automated management of embedded systems and software requirements capture, traceability and impact analysis throughout the entire development lifecycle. AUTOSAR Builder enables ARTOP-based design, development, verification and validation of AUTOSAR-compliant automotive electronic systems. ControlBuild is a front-to-back environment for the design, development, validation, deployment and maintenance of control and automation systems and applications. RT-Builder facilitates the modelling, simulation and validation of distributed real-time architectures for multi-processor and multi-bus systems. For further information, visit: www.geensoft.com.

APRO launches BON Series high capacity, high performance and ruggedised SATA II 2.5 inch Solid State Drives

APRO — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:07:48 -0800

Taipei, Taiwan – 8th March 2010. APRO, Taiwan’s leading manufacturer of industrial-grade NAND Flash storage devices, has launched the BON Series of high capacity and high performance Serial ATA II (SATA II) Solid State Drives (SSDs) in a ruggedised 2.5 inch form factor.

The BON Series includes the highest capacity SATA II SLC (single level cell) NAND Flash SSD available today at 256 GBytes and also the highest capacity SATA II MLC (multi-level cell) NAND Flash SSD at 512 GBytes.

In addition, the BON Series SATA II SLC SSDs are also available in data capacities of 32 GBytes, 64 GBytes and 128 GBytes. All the drives are packaged in 2.5 inch form factor, ruggedised metal casings measuring 9.5mm high for all the drives except the 256 GByte drive which measures 15.3mm high.

Ideally suited to embedded industrial, transportation, military and aerospace applications, the BON Series SATA II SSDs support Fast Erase of media data either by hardware trigger or by software ATA vendor code command across the entire range. Drives also supporting hardware and software triggered Secure Erase, particularly useful for military applications, will be available later in 2010.

The internal dual control RAID-0 design of the BON Series SATA II SSDs helps deliver their high performance, providing a maximum sequential read capability of 240 MBytes/sec with an average access time of 0.1ms and a maximum sequential write capability of 190 MBytes/sec. The BON Series SATA II SSDs are fully compliant with both the SATA 1.0a and 2.6 specifications supporting the required data throughput rates of 1.5 Gbits/sec and 3 Gbits/sec. The drives weigh just 115g.

The BON Series SATA II SSDs provide an extended operational temperature range of -40ºC to +85ºC, vibration, shock and humidity compliance to MIL-STD-810F environmental specifications and are capable of operating up to an altitude of 70,000 feet. In addition, they provide a mean time between failure (MTBF) in excess of 3 million hours, endurance performance greater than 2 million cycles with data retention of 10 years or more.

“The BON Series SATA II SSDs are ideally suited to the growing number of high capacity, high performance data storage applications emerging in the European industrial, mil/aerospace and transportation markets,” said Erez Lev, Managing Director of ProSaleTech, APRO’s channel management partner in Europe. “They not only satisfy the capacity and performance requirements that these applications increasingly demand but deliver them in a compact, lightweight and extremely rugged package.”

About APRO

Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Taipei County, Taiwan, APRO has become the leading Taiwanese manufacturer of NAND flash storage products for industrial applications, supplying the global market through an extensive network of distribution partners. With extensive investment in R&D and customer service expertise, APRO continually exceeds expectations in terms of the product quality, performance and application of its industrial flash storage technology. APRO is renowned for delivering optimal, rugged and reliable solutions. For further information visit: www.apro-tw.com.

The MathWorks Announces Release 2010a of the MATLAB and Simulink Product Families

The MathWorks — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:38:03 -0800

NATICK, Mass. – March 5, 2010 – The MathWorks today announced Release 2010a (R2010a) of its MATLAB and Simulink product families. Key in this release are new streaming capabilities for signal processing and video processing in MATLAB, nonlinear solvers for standard and large-scale optimization, and expanded Simulink support for large teams designing complex systems. R2010a 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.

Advancements for the MATLAB family that are part of the R2010a release include:

• Signal Processing Blockset and Video and Image Processing Blockset: New System objects for stream processing in MATLAB. Supporting more than 140 algorithms, System objects use less memory, improve the handling of lengthy signal and video data streams, and simplify the development of streaming algorithms.

• Symbolic Math Toolbox: New interface with Simscape to automatically generate Simscape language equations for physical modeling.

• Global Optimization Toolbox and Optimization Toolbox: New nonlinear solvers for more complex and realistic problems and the ability to use parallel computing to accelerate time-to-solution.

• SimBiology: Stochastic approximation expectation-maximization (SAEM), dosing schedules support, and performance enhancements for improved data fitting and modeling for pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD).

R2010a reflects a continued focus on performance within the MATLAB product family, including multicore support and performance enhancements for more than 50 functions in Image Processing Toolbox, and additional multithreaded math functions in MATLAB. There are also enhancements to file sharing, path management, and the desktop in MATLAB.

With this release, Simulink offers expanded support for large design teams, enabling them to design complex systems more efficiently. These capabilities include tunable parameter structures for management of large parameter sets and triggered model blocks and function-call branching for component-based modeling.

Other Simulink 2010a highlights designed for more efficient embedded system development include:

• Embedded IDE Link and Target Support Package: Code generation support for Eclipse, Embedded Linux, and ARM processors, which provides simplified embedded system development workflows for systems engineers and software engineers.

• IEC Certification Kit: ISO/DIS 26262 tool qualification support for Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder and PolySpace verification products, easing certification of ECUs developed to Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) A through ASIL D.

• DO Qualification Kit: DO-178B tool qualification support extended to model coverage, which expands the certification credit possible with model verification.

The new release is available immediately and is being provided to users with current subscriptions to MathWorks Software Maintenance Service. Additional information on R2010a product updates is available at: www.mathworks.com/products/new_products/latest_[...]

About The MathWorks

The MathWorks is the leading developer of mathematical computing software. MATLAB, the language of technical computing, is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation. Simulink is a graphical environment for simulation and Model-Based Design of multidomain dynamic and embedded systems. Engineers and scientists worldwide rely on these product families to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and development in automotive, aerospace, electronics, financial services, biotech-pharmaceutical, and other industries. MathWorks products are also fundamental teaching and research tools in the world's universities and learning institutions. Founded in 1984, The MathWorks employs more than 2,100 people in 15 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA.

For additional information, visit www.mathworks.com.

Kontron Brings 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switching to CompactPCI(r) and VME platforms

Kontron — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:27:46 -0800

Eching/Nuremberg, Germany, March 2, 2010 – The new Kontron CP6930 6U switch brings 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching to CompactPCI® and VME embedded systems and communication networks.

With six SFP+ interfaces for 10Gb, two SFP interfaces for 1Gb Ethernet switching on the front and 24 GbE ports on the back, the new switch boosts the performance of VME and CompactPCI® systems based on the latest processor boards for intra- and intercommunication. The non-blocking, fully managed L2/L3 switch allows system designers to stay ahead of the rising transaction and traffic loads in many embedded system designs and communication networks therefore maximizing the usage and longevity of their systems and reducing the TCO for customers’ solutions.

The new Kontron CP6930 6U switch fits into both CompactPCI® and VME (via the VITA 31.1 specification*) system chassis and offers unmatched price-to-performance ratio by implementing the highly integrated Broadcom single-chip switching solution. The CP6930 also offers an AMCC PowerPC for individually configurable application control and a Microcontroller for IPMI-based platform management. With the fully managed software environment and a comprehensive firmware package, the Kontron CP6930 is customizable based on the individual requirements of the installation. This enables the Kontron CP6930 to consolidate even the most complex data flow architectures into one system and simplifies the development of application-ready high-quality platforms so that system engineers can reduce time-to-market by focusing their development efforts on the customer’s application. Vertical markets for serial-switched CompactPCI® and VME hardware environments include storage networks (NAS, SAN), telecommunication networks (IPTV, VoIP, Mobile), wireless radio network controllers (Tetra) and high-speed servers for aerospace and military applications. High-end medical and automation platforms also benefit from a bottleneck-free 10 Gb environment.

The feature set in brief

The Kontron CP6930 hot-swappable CPCI switch serves 24 GbE ports to the backplane or rear transition modules and six high capacity SFP+ 10GbE links at the front for high speed inter- and intra-connects plus 2 SFP 1 Gb ports. Utilizing these interfaces not only enables systems to cascade, but also enables the latest Processor boards such as the Kontron CP6016 with the 10 Gbit Kontron XMC401 to be interconnected inside the system with highest bandwidth.

The Kontron CP6930 supports all relevant standards, L2 and L3 switching, VLANs and QoS as well as routing capabilities. It provides a fully-managed software environment and comprehensive firmware package with seamless integration into the shelf and its shelf management by IPMI V1.5. It also supports hot swap capabilities and reliable field upgrades for all software components. The Kontron CP6930 contains dual boot images with rollback capabilities during upgrades. The system may be managed via SNMP with standard MIBs and command line interfaces over Telnet, SSH or serial lines.

The new high-speed switch complies with PICMG 2.0 R3.0 specifications, PICMG 2.1 R.2.0 hot swap specifications, PICMG 2.9 R2.0 system management, PICMG 2.16 R1.0 and VME64x VITA 31.1 packet switching backplane, IPMI specification V1.5, and ANSI/Vita 47-2005 and supports Ethernet and bridging protocols such as flow control (IEEE 802.3x), spanning tree (IEEE IEE 802.1D, 802.1W), and link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad). The Ethernet implementation also supports QoS (IEEE 802.1p, ACL and DiffServ) on all ports, as well as VLAN, including VLAN registration with GARP/GVRP (IEEE 802.1q).

The routing capabilities include OSPF, RIP and VRRP support as well as Multicast routing using PIM-SM, PIM-DM and IGMP. The CP6930 supports reliable, redundant operation with support for dual-star fabrics for both switching and routing functions. The services include onboard event management, test and trace facilities, power on the shelf diagnostics, and the persistent storage of configuration across restarts. It also supports the retrieving and installing of multiple configurations.

Availability The Kontron CP6930 is available now.

More information about the Kontron CP6930: www.kontron.com/products/boards+and+mezzanines/[...]

More information about CompactPCI: www.kontron.com/CompactPCI

More information about VME: www.kontron.com/VME

*The Vita 31.1 specification is based on the PICMG 2.16 specification

Hybricon Announces the Availability of New Higher Performance and Price Competitive Air Cooled Development Chassis Families

Hybricon — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:33:44 -0800

AYER, Massachusetts, January 27, 2010 -Hybricon Corporation, a world-class solutions company providing integrated system solutions, electronic enclosures, backplanes, card cage assemblies and subsystem interconnect Packaging for Military, telecom, medical, and commercial applications, announced today that it has released two new development product families focused on increased performance, expanded power options, backplane compatibility and cost effectiveness.

The air cooled Smart Open Frame and Tower Development Chassis each come in both a 3U and 6U version and feature the following capabilities and configurations:

• VITA 65 OpenVPX compliant backplanes and development chassis

• VITA 68 compliant VPX backplanes at up to 6.25 Gbaud rates

• Backplanes supported: VPX (OpenVPX, VPX and VPX REDI), VXS, cPCI, VME and VME64x

• Backplanes are interchangeable between the Open Frame and Tower Chassis

• Selection of power supplies up to 900W for 3U

• Selection of power supplies up to 1200W for 6U

• Smart power supply control interface option available for Open Frame

• Extreme Cooling up to >150W/slot per OpenVPX (VITA 65 Compliance options)

• Initial slot configuration options available:

- 6 slot 3U VPX 1” pitch

- 5 slot 6U VPX 1” pitch

- 3 & 8 slot 3U VME J1

- 4 & 8 slot 6U VME64x

- 3 & 5 slot 3U cPCI

- 3 & 5 slot 6U cPCI

- 8 slot 6U VXS

• Support for Rear Transition Modules (RTMs) per VITA 46.10 (for VPX) and IEEE 1101.11

“Our goal in developing and releasing these product families was to provide a high performance and cost effective approach to supporting OpenVPX (VITA 65) and other standard backplane development from the same chassis platform”, says Bob Sullivan, Hybricon’s CTO. “Hybricon is an active member in both the VITA 65 Working Group and The VPX Marketing Alliance and has a solid roadmap of new VPX (OpenVPX, VPX and VPX REDI) products that will be entering the market throughout 2010.”

For configurations not listed please contact us.

About Hybricon

Hybricon is a world-class solutions company providing integrated system solutions, electronic enclosures, backplanes, card cage assemblies and subsystem interconnect packaging for military, telecom, medical, and commercial applications. Excelling in custom engineered enclosure solutions and standard offerings alike, Hybricon products are built on the cornerstones of a deeply ingrained quality culture. Hybricon is the industry leader in backplane design, offering the newest technologies for OpenVPX, VPX, VXS, VME, VME64X, CompactPCI, Rugged MicroTCA, and custom bus structures. Hybricon is a 100% U.S. owned and based corporation located in Ayer, MA. As an ISO 9001:2008 / AS9100 Registered company, Hybricon is dedicated to ensuring the highest level of quality - a necessity for products that must be able to function anywhere, anytime. For more information please visit Hybricon at www.hybricon.com.

Hybricon Announces the Availability of New Higher Performance and Price Competitive Air Cooled Development Chassis Families

Hybricon — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:16:44 -0800

AYER, Massachusetts, January 27, 2010 -Hybricon Corporation, a world-class solutions company providing integrated system solutions, electronic enclosures, backplanes, card cage assemblies and subsystem interconnect packaging for military, telecom, medical, and commercial applications, announced today that it has released two new development product families focused on increased performance, expanded power options, backplane compatibility and cost effectiveness.

The air cooled Smart Open Frame and Tower Development Chassis each come in both a 3U and 6U version and feature the following capabilities and configurations:

• VITA 65 OpenVPX compliant backplanes and development chassis

• VITA 68 compliant VPX backplanes at up to 6.25 Gbaud rates

• Backplanes supported: VPX (OpenVPX, VPX and VPX REDI), VXS, cPCI, VME and VME64x

• Backplanes are interchangeable between the Open Frame and Tower Chassis

• Selection of power supplies up to 900W for 3U

• Selection of power supplies up to 1200W for 6U

• Smart power supply control interface option available for Open Frame

• Extreme Cooling up to >150W/slot per OpenVPX (VITA 65 Compliance options)

• Initial slot configuration options available:

- 6 slot 3U VPX 1” pitch

- 5 slot 6U VPX 1” pitch

- 3 & 8 slot 3U VME J1

- 4 & 8 slot 6U VME64x

- 3 & 5 slot 3U cPCI

- 3 & 5 slot 6U cPCI

- 8 slot 6U VXS

• Support for Rear Transition Modules (RTMs) per VITA 46.10 (for VPX) and IEEE 1101.11

For configurations not listed please contact us.

About Hybricon

Hybricon Announces the Availability of New Higher Performance and Price Competitive Air Cooled Development Chassis Families

Hybricon — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:39:32 -0800

AYER, Massachusetts, January 27, 2010 -Hybricon Corporation, a world-class solutions company providing integrated system solutions, electronic enclosures, backplanes, card cage assemblies and subsystem interconnect packaging for military, telecom, medical, and commercial applications, announced today that it has released two new development product families focused on increased performance, expanded power options, backplane compatibility and cost effectiveness.

The air cooled Smart Open Frame and Tower Development Chassis each come in both a 3U and 6U version and feature the following capabilities and configurations:

• VITA 65 OpenVPX compliant backplanes and development chassis

• VITA 68 compliant VPX backplanes at up to 6.25 Gbaud rates

• Backplanes supported: VPX (OpenVPX, VPX and VPX REDI), VXS, cPCI, VME and VME64x

• Backplanes are interchangeable between the Open Frame and Tower Chassis

• Selection of power supplies up to 900W for 3U

• Selection of power supplies up to 1200W for 6U

• Smart power supply control interface option available for Open Frame

• Extreme Cooling up to >150W/slot per OpenVPX (VITA 65 Compliance options)

• Initial slot configuration options available:

- 6 slot 3U VPX 1” pitch

- 5 slot 6U VPX 1” pitch

- 3 & 8 slot 3U VME J1

- 4 & 8 slot 6U VME64x

- 3 & 5 slot 3U cPCI

- 3 & 5 slot 6U cPCI

- 8 slot 6U VXS

• Support for Rear Transition Modules (RTMs) per VITA 46.10 (for VPX) and IEEE 1101.11

For configurations not listed please contact us.

About Hybricon

New from General Dynamics Canada - the PX3030 Single-board Computer Enables Network Connectivity for Mobile Battle Management Applications

General Dynamics C4 Systems — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:36:18 -0800

Designed to withstand the rigors of mobile and tactical environments, General Dynamics Canada introduces the new rugged and powerful PX3030 VPX-REDI single-board computer. The PX3030 harnesses the computing power of the Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Mobile processor and 8GB RAM to easily handle today’s demanding network communications, graphics, imagery and video feeds needed for Modern Brigade Combat teams. Developed using proven commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software, the PX3030 delivers maximum operational efficiency and affordability.

Applications:

• Tactical wheeled vehicles including tanks, expeditionary fighting vehicles and Stryker platforms

• Armament platforms such as mobile gun systems and cannons

• Airborne command and control for combat helicopters, aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles

Key Features:

• VPX-REDI, enabling users to easily replace or repair modules

• Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 1.2GHz to 2.26GHz processor

• Up to 8 GB DDR3-1066 memory

• Dual Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000 connectivity

• On-board storage up to 16GB SATA NAND, Flash

• Six USB 2.0 and four RS232/422 ports

• Rugged; VITA 47 CC4 vibration, shock and temperature compliant

General Overview:

• Size: 3U module per VITA 48.2 (conduction cooled), Type 1, .85” pitch; Weight: <500g (1.1 lb.)

• Supports Intel Virtualization Technology and Trusted Execution Technology

• Compatible with Microsoft Windows®, LynuxOS, Linux, HHEL, VxWorks and other operating systems

Atego acquires Blue River

Atego — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:22:41 -0800

Embedded World 2010, Nürnberg, Germany – 2nd - 4th March 2010 – Hall 11, Stand 119. Atego, the leading independent supplier of industrial-grade, modeling and development tools for complex, mission and safety-critical embedded systems and software has acquired Blue River Software GmbH, extending its embedded development software portfolio to now include C++ tools. Atego’s acquisition of Blue River closely follows its creation from the recent merger between Artisan Software Tools and Aonix. The acquisition also demonstrates Atego’s effectiveness at delivering on its growth strategyas a platform for market consolidation.

“The Blue River acquisition continues our ‘complex systems tools market’ consolidation program,” said James B. Gambrell, Executive Chairman of Atego. “Blue River’s offerings, vertical markets and German reach complement our existing organization and expand our capabilities across our entire organization. The real benefit of our joining together with Blue River is not just the technology and products it gives us, but that by combining our offerings, our customers are better able to Work as One. As we continue to grow and expand, we are committed to remaining independent-minded and flexible, positioning us particularly well to serve the growing needs of our engineering customers.”

Blue River was founded in 1993 as a supplier of software tools for embedded C++ system development, deriving the bulk of its business in the German automotive, engineering automation, telecommunication and measurement/control industries. The acquisition will significantly expand Atego’s German customer base. All of the Blue River team will join Atego, extending Atego’s knowledge and capability within the embedded C++ industry. Blue River will work with Atego’s German headquarters in Wolfsburg, while retaining its regional offices in Nürnberg.

“I am extremely excited that Blue River has joined with Atego,” commented Thomas Groß, CEO of Blue River Software GmbH. “Atego is a highly successful and fast-growing company with an enviable reputation for providing robust design and development tools for complex systems development. Blue River will add C++ development tools to the solutions and services Atego is able to offer to its customers as well as expand its market share in Germany and beyond.”

“We are pleased to see Atego acquire Blue River and commit to the ongoing enhancement of its products,” said Reinhard Gessler, R&D Manager of E.P. Elektro Projekt GmbH & CO.KG, Germany. “As a long term Blue River customer, we have already been impressed by Atego’s professionalism and service quality. This move could only be made possible by the dedication and skill of the Atego and Blue River teams.”

The acquisition combines Blue River’s operating business including all products and underlying intellectual property, professional services and expertise with Atego’s existing German operations. The product portfolio includes the E32, X32 family and DOCU32 development tools for C/C++. As well as C/C++, the Blue River tools also support C#, JAVA, PASCAL, PL/M and ASSEMBLER development and integrate with all major compilers, including Atego’s Aonix PERC.

“Combining Blue River with Atego is another significant step in our ‘whole product’ growth strategy. Their tools complement our solutions for mission, safety and life-critical complex systems development, adding all-important C++ capabilities to the Atego portfolio,” said Hedley Apperly, VP Product & Marketing at Atego. “This acquisition gives us broad coverage across our customer’s three most important embedded system programming languages; Ada (robust and reliable), C/C++ (current market leading language of choice) and Java (the future for real-time software development). It is also further evidence of our strategy to remain independent-minded and support our customers’ choices of best-of-breed languages and tools.

About Atego

Atego™ is the leading independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative development tools for engineering complex, mission- and safety-critical architectures, systems, software and hardware. Atego delivers a stable, robust working environment to thousands of users across an extensive range of complex applications in demanding engineering sectors such as aerospace, defense, automotive, transportation, telecommunications, electronics, and medical. Atego’s Aonix PERC® is the leading, highly reliable, real-time embedded virtual machine solution for running Java™ programs deployed today. Atego also has the largest number of certified Ada applications (Aonix ObjectAda®) at the highest level of criticality. Atego’s standards-based modeling tool suite, Artisan Studio®, provides comprehensive support for the leading industry standards, including OMG SysML, UML and Architectural Frameworks. Atego Workbench™ provides a fully integrated, collaborative engineering framework for the trouble-free deployment and maintenance of best-in-class tools for mission and safety-critical systems and software development. Atego’s tools deliver on the promise of an integrated collaborative development environment - allowing architecture, systems, software and hardware engineering teams to Work as One™ - from concept through to delivery, maintenance and support. Founded in 2010 in a merger between Artisan Software Tools and Aonix, Atego is headquartered in San Diego, CA, USA and Cheltenham, UK with offices in France, Germany and Italy, and is supported by a global distributor network. For more information visit: www.Atego.com.

Atego acquires Blue River

Atego — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:20:46 -0800

Atego, the leading independent supplier of industrial-grade, modeling and development tools for complex, mission and safety-critical embedded systems and software has acquired Blue River Software GmbH, extending its embedded development software portfolio to now include C++ tools. Atego’s acquisition of Blue River closely follows its creation from the recent merger between Artisan Software Tools and Aonix. The acquisition also demonstrates Atego’s effectiveness at delivering on its growth strategyas a platform for market consolidation.

Curtiss-wright Awarded $25 Million Contract From Northrop Grumman

Curtiss-Wright Controls — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:04:20 -0800

CHARLOTTE, NC – MARCH 3, 2010 – Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc. today announced that it has received a contract from Northrop Grumman Corporation to provide the Advanced Mission Management System (AMMS) for the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS) program in the amount of approximately $25 million. The BAMS UAS will provide the U.S. Navy with a persistent maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance system to protect the fleet and provide a capability to detect, track, classify and identify maritime and littoral targets.

“Curtiss-Wright is proud to partner with Northrop Grumman to provide advanced computer subsystems for the BAMS UAS unmanned aerial vehicle,” said David Adams, co-chief operating officer of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. “We look forward to building on the success we’ve had as a long-time supplier to the Global Hawk program.”

Northrop Grumman's RQ-4N, a maritime derivative of the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle, will be the platform for the BAMS UAS suite of maritime surveillance sensors and communications systems. Curtiss-Wright will design, develop and manufacture BAMS UAS AMMS units at the company’s Motion Control facility in Santa Clarita, CA. Hardware deliveries will start at the end of 2010 and continue through 2011.

About Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc.

Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Curtiss-Wright Controls is the Motion Control segment of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. With manufacturing facilities around the world, Curtiss-Wright Controls is a leading technology-based organization providing niche motion control products, subsystems and services internationally for the aerospace and defense markets. For more information, please visit www.cwcontrols.com.

About Curtiss-Wright

Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW) is a diversified company headquartered in Parsippany, NJ. The company designs, manufactures and overhauls products for motion control and flow control applications, and provides a variety of specialized metal treatment services. The firm employs approximately 7,600 people worldwide. For more information, please visit www.curtisswright.com.

Corelis Releases New CD Version 7.0 Boundary-Scan Tool Suite

Corelis, Inc. — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:59:58 -0800

Cerritos, CA, March 3, 2010 – Corelis, Inc., a leading supplier of high-performance boundary-scan test and measurement tools, announced the availability of the latest version of its powerful ScanExpress Boundary-Scan Tool Suite. The new Version 7.0 CD now supports FlexNet licensing. Legacy software licenses will continue to be supported; however, all newly issued software and network licenses will utilize FlexNet.

CD improvements include:

• More file manipulation functions incorporated by the TPG scripting engine.

• Test pattern generation support for the Firecron JTS06Bu 6-port JTAG gateway hierarchical device.

• Increased ScanExpress JET Flash programming speeds by up to 33%.

• Support for 64-bit Flash address access.

• New ScanExpress JET processor support for BCM7400, i.MX27, OMAP3530, and PPC603EV.

Current Corelis customers that have a valid maintenance contract can now access the new Version 7.0 CD through the existing support website. To inquire about a maintenance package or to obtain a full list of improvements, please contact Terri Martinez, Maintenance Program Administrator, at (562) 926-6727; or send an email to terri.martinez@corelis.com.

As always, Corelis offers free training to its clients so that they may immediately utilize the various new product features and innovations now available. Class schedules and registration information can be found on the Corelis website at:

www.corelis.com/education/JTAG_Boundary-Scan_Se[...].

About Corelis

Corelis, Inc., a subsidiary of Electronic Warfare Associates, Inc., offers bus analysis tools, embedded test tools, and the industry’s broadest line of JTAG/boundary-scan software and hardware products combining exceptional ease-of-use with advanced technical innovation and unmatched customer service. Corelis’ development and test tools are used by companies such as Agilent, Dell, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Rockwell Collins, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Qualcomm, Nokia, Panasonic, TI, Ford, Broadcom, Ericsson, and many others. Corelis products are found globally in every industry developing or manufacturing electronic products.

Atego acquires Blue River; Extends its software development tools suite with Blue River IDEs for Embedded C++

Atego — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:24:30 -0800

About Atego

AtegoTM is the leading independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative development tools for engineering complex, mission- and safety-critical architectures, systems, software and hardware. Atego delivers a stable, robust working environment to thousands of users across an extensive range of complex applications in demanding engineering sectors such as aerospace, defense, automotive, transportation, telecommunications, electronics, and medical. Atego’s Aonix PERC® is the leading, highly reliable, real-time embedded virtual machine solution for running JavaTM programs deployed today. Atego also has the largest number of certified Ada applications (Aonix ObjectAda®) at the highest level of criticality. Atego’s standards-based modeling tool suite, Artisan Studio®, provides comprehensive support for the leading industry standards, including OMG SysML, UML and Architectural Frameworks. Atego WorkbenchTM provides a fully integrated, collaborative engineering framework for the trouble-free deployment and maintenance of best-in-class tools for mission and safety-critical systems and software development. Atego’s tools deliver on the promise of an integrated collaborative development environment - allowing architecture, systems, software and hardware engineering teams to Work as OneSM - from concept through to delivery, maintenance and support. Founded in 2010 in a merger between Artisan Software Tools and Aonix, Atego is headquartered in San Diego, CA, USA and Cheltenham, UK with offices in France, Germany and Italy, and is supported by a global distributor network. For more information visit: www.Atego.com.

Curtiss-Wright Controls Introduces 512GB Rugged Network Attached Storage (NAS) Solution

Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:36:53 -0800

DAYTON, OH – March 2, 2010 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed systems for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced the new Vortex Compact Network Storage (CNS), a rugged conduction-cooled network attached storage (NAS) solution. The small Vortex CNS package is designed for mounting in an ARINC tray on deployed platforms and provides 512GB of solid state storage, with growth to 1TB in early 2010. The CNS is “protocol-flexible” and supports CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP and PXE protocols on up to four (4) 1Gb Ethernet connections, making it ideal for sharing critical data in and across network centric systems. This rugged NAS solution is designed for use in a broad range of both manned and unmanned ground, air, and sea vehicles.

“The Vortex CNS is designed to optimize the sharing of mission critical data in harsh-environments,” said David Dietz, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems. “The Vortex CNS’s data encryption and data management capabilities, coupled with its exceptional size, weight and power characteristics, make it an ideal solution for rugged deployed storage applications.”

The Vortex CNS can be integrated with one or two Curtiss-Wright Controls VPX3-FSM Flash Storage Modules to provide an extremely rugged, high-performance secure solution for sharing critical data in rugged environments. The 3U VPX VPX3-FSM is a rugged high performance, high-capacity solid-state SATA storage card that includes a NIST certified 256-bit AES encryption capability to ensure the protection of sensitive data.

The Vortex CNS is the newest member of Curtiss-Wright Controls’ Vortex family of high-performance storage systems designed to support the severe environment of military applications that range from high-speed streaming recorders to network centric file servers.

Measuring 3.75” H x 4.88” W x 12.20” D and weighing less than 12 lbs., the Vortex CNS is a fully rugged package that easily fits into most demanding space requirements. In addition, the CNS packaging can be tailored to fit the application requirements to address cooling limitations as well as size, weight, and power (SWaP) considerations.

Vortex CNS Features:

· Four 1GbE ports

· 512 GB solid-state storage

· NIST certified AES-256 data encryption

· Power interruption protection

· ½ ATR, 3.75” H x 4.88” W x 12.20” D (95.25 x 123.95 x 309.88mm)

For pricing and availability of the Vortex CNS please contact the factory.

For editorial information regarding Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems products or services, contact John Wranovics, public relations director, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, Tel: (925) 640-6402; email. jwranovics@curtisswright.com.

Inquiries: Please forward all Sales and reader service inquiries to Matt Young, Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, Tel: (937) 252-5601 x1363; Fax (937) 258-2729; email: systeminfo@curtisswright.com.

About Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems

Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems is one of the industry’s most comprehensive and experienced single sources for rugged, integrated solutions that are qualified for military platforms. Our product and service expertise includes Motion Control, Network Centric Computing, Rate Sensor Assemblies, Vehicle Management Computers, High-Speed Recording & Storage, and Electronic Manufacturing Services. The Electronic Systems business group serves the defense, aerospace, commercial and industrial markets and is part of Curtiss-Wright Controls Inc. For more information about Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, visit www.cwcelectronicsystems.com.

About Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc.

Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Curtiss-Wright Controls is the motion control segment of Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW). With manufacturing facilities around the world, Curtiss-Wright Controls is a leading technology-based organization providing niche motion control products, subsystems and services internationally for the aerospace and defense markets. For more information, visit www.cwcontrols.com.

Curtiss-Wright Controls Introduces its First Rugged 3U OpenVPX(tm) Data Recorder

Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:59:42 -0800

DAYTON, OH – March 2, 2010 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed systems for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced the new conduction-cooled Vortex VR-7310 3U VPX/VPX-REDI/OpenVPX™ (VITA 46/48/65) data recorder. This small form factor data recorder board enables system designers to quickly and easily integrate high-volume, continuous (streaming) data recording in a small compact package. The VR-7310 is designed for use in a broad range of space, weight and power (SWaP)-constrained critical applications in both manned and unmanned ground, air, and sea vehicles, including signal intelligence, image processing, FLIR radar, sonar, RF tuners, MRI and cameras.

“Today’s advanced sensor systems require the capability to record and retrieve high-speed sensor data in a wide range of harsh environments,” said David Dietz, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems. “The VR-7310 delivers the high bandwidth and system operability of the VPX and OpenVPX standards, coupled with the size, weight and power advantages of the 3U form factor, to provide an ideal recording system for rugged deployed data management and storage applications.”

The VR-7310 data recorder provides a quick and cost effective way to store and retrieve captured data from a variety of sensor interfaces without interruption. The VR-7310 supports storage includes eight (8) external 6 Gbps SAS/SATA links that enable direct attachment to eight (8) 1.8” or 2.5” drives deployed on disk carrier cards or VPX3-FSM Flash Storage Devices. This high performance 3U VPX recording engine features an on-board XMC/ expansion site, supporting a wide variety of I/O such as Serial Front Panel Data Port (sFPDP), Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 10GbE and analog I/O, as well as FPGA processing. The board’s AMCC 460SX CPU is supported with 2GB of DDR2 SDRAM memory for recording buffers.

Vortex Software

Curtiss-Wright Controls supports the Vortex data recorder family with software that enables users to easily manipulate or analyze data while it is recorded or during playback. The Vortex software provides full access to a well-defined and fully documented interface to the data before it is written to or read from disk. Curtiss-Wright Controls also provides the XML-RPC API which enables the customer’s application to control system operations including the number of channels to acquire, disk grouping, playback from offsets in the recording, disk group management. For custom applications, the Vortex software provides users with an easy to use API for creating high-speed recording systems with a wide range of I/O options. Application Programming services are available upon request.

The Vortex Family of Storage Solutions

The VR-7310 is the newest member of Curtiss-Wright Controls’ Vortex family of high-performance data recorder and rugged storage systems designed to support the severe environment of military applications that range from high-speed streaming recorders to network centric file servers.

The Vortex family supports applications including instrumentation recording, mission recording, SIGINT/ELINT recording and storage for both rugged and lab environments.

VR-7310 Features:

· Powerful CPU (AMCC 460SX)

· 8 external 6 Gbps SAS/SATA links

· Pluggable IO on XMC site

· VITA 46 3U form factor

· Fully rugged conduction-cooled

· Network Attached Storage (NAS) capability

For information on pricing and availability of the VR-7310, please contact the factory.

For editorial information regarding Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems products or services, contact John Wranovics, public relations director, Curtiss-Wright Controls, Tel: (925) 640-6402; email. jwranovics@curtisswright.com.

About Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems

Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems is one of the industry’s most comprehensive and experienced single sources for rugged, integrated solutions that are qualified for military platforms. Our product and service expertise includes Motion Control, Network Centric Computing, Rate Sensor Assemblies, Vehicle Management Computers, High-Speed Recording & Storage, and Electronic Manufacturing Services. The Electronic Systems business group serves the defense, aerospace, commercial and industrial markets and is part of Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc. For more information about Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, visit www.cwcelectronicsystems.com.

About Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc.

Curtiss-Wright Controls Boosts Speed on ADC FMC Card

Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:49:30 -0800

Upgraded ADC510 FMC Card Now Delivers 550MSPS Output

HIGH WYCOMBE, UK – March 2, 2010 -- 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, VXS, and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense (A&D) market, has announced the availability of a higher performance, faster version of its ADC510 FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC/VITA 57) module. Now, featuring two enhanced Texas Instruments ADC devices, the ADC510 delivers sampling performance increased to 550MSPS with analog bandwidths >1.7GHz. Available in both air-cooled and conduction-cooled rugged versions, the ADC510 is aimed at DSP applications such as Signal Intelligence (SIGINT), Electronic Counter Measures (ECM), and Radar. The ADC510 makes it easier and faster for system developers to integrate FPGAs into their embedded system designs.

“Ideally suited to SDR and SigInt applications, the faster ADC510 illustrates Curtiss-Wright Control’s continued leadership in practical open standard rugged solutions such as FMC,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “FMCs enable our customers to have access to new technology with simplified upgrades paths for future solutions which protects their investment.”

The ADC510 now supports two Texas Instruments ADS54RF63 ADC devices with each device supporting a sampling rate up to 550 MSPS and providing 12-bits of digital output. The ADC device interfaces are routed to the FMC connector to enable an FPGA on a baseboard to directly control and receive data. There is a choice of sample clock sources for the ADC510 including an onboard source that supports sampling rates of 300, 320, 400, and 500 MSPS as well as the ability to utilize an external sample clock. Input and output triggers are provided to enable multiple ADC510 modules to be synchronized to increase the number of input channels.

It complements Curtiss-Wright Controls’ growing family of high-speed ADC FMC cards, including the recently announced ADC512, FMC-520 and FMC-XCLK2 providing a complete ADC/DAC solution for DSP applications.

FMCs address the needs of FPGA centric I/O by enabling I/O devices that reside on an industry standard mezzanine card to be attached to, and directly controlled by, FPGAs that reside on a baseboard. The benefits of FMCs are a small footprint, reduced I/O bottlenecks, increased flexibility, and reduced cost by removing redundant interfaces. An FMC module is about half the size of a PMC mezzanine module. To maximize data throughput and minimize latency, the FMC connector has many pins that support high-speed signals for moving data between the FMC and an FPGA on the baseboard. FMCs are ideal for high speed analog I/O, digital I/O, fiber-optics, memory or even a DSP co-processor.

ADC510 Key Features:

· Dual Texas Instruments ADS5463 or ADS54RF63 12-bit analog to digital converters

· Onboard clock generator (300, 320, 400 or 500MSPS), external RF sample clock input.

· FMC/VITA 57 form factor

· Air- or conduction-cooled rugged versions

Software Support

HDL example code is available for the ADC510 for integration into the HDL development suite for Curtiss-Wright Controls’ FPGA baseboards. The ADC510 is provided with HDL example code to simplify and speed integration into the HDL development suite for integration with Curtiss-Wright Controls’ FPGA host boards.

About FMC (VITA 57)

FMC modules enable I/O devices that reside on an industry standard (VITA 57) mezzanine card to be attached to, and directly controlled by FPGAs that reside on a host board. About half the size of a PMC mezzanine module, FMCs provide a small footprint, reduced I/O bottlenecks, increased flexibility, and reduced cost through the elimination of redundant interfaces. To maximize data throughput and minimize latency, the FMC connector provides numerous I/O pins that support high-speed signals for moving data between the FMC and the FPGA.

Pricing for ADC510 starts at $5,000 US. Availability is off-the-shelf.

For editorial information regarding Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing Multi Computing products or services, contact John Wranovics, Director of Media Relations, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, Tel: (925) 640-6402; email. jwranovics@curtisswright.com. Web site: www.cwcembedded.com.

Inquiries: Please forward all Sales and reader service inquiries to Jerri-Lynne Charbonneau, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, Tel: (613) 254-5112; Fax: (613) 599-7777; e-mail: sales@cwcembedded.com.

About Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing

Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing is the industry’s most comprehensive and experienced single source for embedded solutions, ranging from Processing, Subsystems, Data Communication, DSP, and Video & Graphics to the most advanced board level components and fully integrated custom systems. The Embedded Computing group serves the defense, aerospace, commercial and industrial markets and is part of Curtiss-Wright Controls Inc. For more information about Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, visit www.cwcembedded.com.

About Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc.

Atego's real-time Ada development system now available to military and aerospace developers

Atego — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:38:22 -0800

Embedded World 2010, Nürnberg, Germany – 2nd - 4th March 2010 – Hall 11, Stand 119—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.

“Aonix ObjectAda Real-Time for VxWorks 653 was developed to meet customer demand,” said James B. Gambrell, Executive Chairman at Atego. “Although Atego, formerly Aonix, has for years been providing a full safety-critical Ada product for ARINC-653 systems, to realize the full potential of multi-partition RTOSs, both full Ada runtime, and safety-certifiable Ada runtimes needed to be available. We are happy to now have satisfied this need.”

VxWorks 653 is Wind River's robust operating system for controlling complex ARINC 653 Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) systems. VxWorks 653 fully implements the latest ARINC 653 application executive (APEX) specification with a robust time and space partition scheduler. Aonix ObjectAda Real-Time runs within a VxWorks 653 partition where execution of a non-certifiable Ada application can work in cooperation with safety-critical functionality resident in other partitions. This is a significant cost advantage via reduction in the amount of Ada code that needs to endure the high cost and time associated with the rigor of certification testing and acceptance cycles. Atego’s Aonix ObjectAda Real-Time joins with Aonix ObjectAda RAVEN as one of two products now supporting the VxWorks 653 platform.

“Support for multiple levels of safety criticality is an important aspect of IMA systems,” said Adrian Larkham, Head of Critical Systems at Atego. “Aonix ObjectAda provides facilities needed for the development of Ada applications at varying levels of safety criticality within an IMA system. Aonix ObjectAda Real-Time for VxWorks 653 provides full Ada language coverage for development projects with low levels of application safety criticality. Application development at the highest level of safety criticality is covered by ObjectAda RAVEN for VxWorks 653 and its certifiable subset of Ada.”

Aonix ObjectAda Real-Time for Windows x PowerPC/VxWorks 653 consists of a fully compliant ACATS 2.5 Ada 95 compiler plus supporting tools. It is compatible with Wind River’s VxWorks 653 environment, which comprises the VxWorks 653 operating system and the VxWorks 653 cross development toolset. Aonix ObjectAda for VxWorks 653 leverages Wind River Workbench, an Eclipse-based development environment providing developers access to the broad range of tools available through the Eclipse framework. Users also have the option to utilize Aonix ObjectAda’s standard graphical or command-line interface. The Aonix ObjectAda compilation system is comprised of an integrated language-sensitive editor, source-code browser, compiler with industry-leading compilation speed, debugger and full library manager.

About the Aonix ObjectAda Family

Aonix ObjectAda is an extensive family of native and cross development tools and runtime environments. Aonix ObjectAda native products provide host development and execution support for the most popular environments including Windows, Linux and various UNIX operating systems. Aonix ObjectAda Real-Time products provide cross development tools on Windows, Linux or UNIX systems which target PowerPC and Intel target processors in support of “bare” hardware execution or in conjunction with popular RTOSs. Aonix ObjectAda RAVEN products provide a hard real-time Ada runtime to address those systems requiring certification to the highest levels of safety standards such as DO-178B Level A for flight safety.

About Atego

Express Logic Announces Safety-Critical Certification Pack(tm) for ThreadX(r) RTOS for IEC-61508, EUROCAE ED-12B, and Related European Safety Standards

Express Logic — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:35:48 -0800

March 2, 2010 – Embedded World, Nuremberg, Germany ― Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced the immediate availability of market-specific, turnkey, Safety-Critical Certification Pack™ products for its popular ThreadX® RTOS. ThreadX has proven itself in over 750 million electronic devices, many of which are required to meet stringent industrial, medical, transportation, rail, automotive and aerospace safety and reliability standards. To date, ThreadX customers have performed the required certification tests and validations themselves. By introducing a turnkey Safety-Critical Certification Pack for ThreadX, Express Logic can now help embedded device manufacturers eliminate developer months of verification and validation effort in complying with rigorous reliability and safety-critical standards.

For European customers, Express Logic’s Safety-Critical Certification Pack supports such standards as IEC-61508 for Industrial Equipment, IEC-62304 for Medical Devices, EUROCAE ED-12B for Aerospace, and the newly globalized rail standard IEC-62279 (formerly known as BS/EN-50128). With ThreadX and the appropriate Safety-Critical Certification Pack for their application, manufacturers can mitigate their development risk by using a proven, readily-certifiable RTOS for a fraction of the cost of alternate solutions.

Affect on Time to Market

In its "Embedded Market Survey" (2009), TechInsights reported that 57% of all software projects do not hit their targeted release date with the average project running 4.4 months late. Since market windows do not move, there are few solutions to this problem: companies can allocate more resources to the project or start the project sooner. Unfortunately, both of these options can have a negative affect on other projects and research.

Today, the ability to deliver a quality product before a competitor frequently determines ultimate market share and profitability. To keep projects on schedule, it’s beneficial to consider reducing project scope, while still achieving the same goals. By using a reliable, field-proven COTS RTOS such as ThreadX, along with a Safety-Critical Certification Pack, developers can eliminate many developer years from their project schedule and increase the likelihood of successful, on-time completion. The ThreadX Safety-Critical Certification Pack addresses the requirements of many safety certification standards, and is a 100% turnkey solution for certification of the RTOS used in a safety-critical system.

ThreadX Safety-Critical Certification Pack

The ThreadX Safety-Critical Certification Pack is a turnkey solution for meeting the RTOS-related aspects of standards for safety-critical systems. The ThreadX Safety-Critical Certification Pack includes all source code, documentation, coverage analysis, validation artifacts, and summary report for submission to the governing agency as part of the overall system certification. Each Pack is pre-tailored for the specific standard addressed (e.g., IEC 61508), the Operating System used (i.e., ThreadX), and the Target Environment (i.e., processor, board, development tools, etc.), leaving nothing for the customer to do, but submit the evidence to the certifying authority.

A typical ThreadX Safety-Critical Certification Pack contains the following:

• Software Safety Requirements

• Software Safety Validation Plan

• Development Plan

• Configuration Management Plan

• Quality Assurance Plan

• Verification/Test Plan

• Coding Standards

• Requirements Standards

• Design Standards

• Requirements Specification

• Design Description

• Unit Test Procedure

• Unit Test Plans

• Unit Test Reports

• Integration Test Procedure

• Integration Test Plan

• Integration Test Report

• Trace Matrices

• Configuration Index

• Software Accomplishments Summary

• Safety Manual

European and International safety standards covered by various ThreadX Safety-Critical Certification Packs:

• Avionics:

 EUROCAE ED-12B A/B/C/D

 EUROCAE ED109 Level AL1 – AL5 (Coming Soon)

• Industrial:

 IEC-61508 SIL 3/2/1

• Medical:

 IEC-62304 Class A, B, C

• Transportation and Rail:

 IEC-61508 SIL 3/2/1

 CENELEC EN50128/BS50128 SIL 4/3/2/1

 IEC-62279

ThreadX is a small-footprint, highly-optimized, preemptive scheduling RTOS, used in demanding applications in consumer electronics, industrial automation, medical devices, and aerospace equipment. ThreadX simplifies management of real-time systems with an easy-to-use API, full source code, and extensive documentation. ThreadX is licensed royalty-free with full commercial support.

Shipping and Availability

ThreadX Safety Critical Certification Packs are available for a wide range of customer target environments and development tools, and for a wide range of European and International regulatory standards, at license prices starting at $25,000.

About Express Logic and ThreadX

Headquartered in San Diego, CA, Express Logic offers the most advanced run-time solution for deeply embedded applications, including the popular ThreadX® RTOS, the high-performance NetX™ TCP/IP stack, the FileX™ embedded MS-DOS compatible file system, and the USBX™ Host/Device USB protocol stack. All products from Express Logic include full source-code and have no run-time royalties. For more information about Express Logic solutions, please visit the Web site at www.expresslogic.com, call 1-888-THREADX, or email inquires to sales@expresslogic.com.

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ThreadX, BenchX, TraceX, and FileX are registered trademarks, and Safety-Critical Certification Pack, NetX, CANX, USBX, StackX, preemption-threshold, picokernel, and UDP fast path technology, are trademarks of Express Logic, Inc. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders.

Express Logic's BenchX(r) IDE Supports Lauterbach's TRACE32(r) Debugger

Express Logic — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:33:14 -0800

March 2, 2010 – Embedded World, Nuremberg, Germany ― Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced that Express Logic’s BenchX® IDE now supports debugging using Lauterbach’s TRACE32 debugger. BenchX is an Eclipse-based IDE adapted for use with embedded systems. Lauterbach’s TRACE32 in-circuit emulators and debuggers are powerful development tools for embedded systems. Together, BenchX and TRACE32 deliver robust functionality in an easy-to-use Eclipse-based IDE.

Express Logic’s BenchX was introduced in 2008 and was awarded honors for “Best In Show” at the Embedded Systems Conference. In 2009, BenchX was awarded the “Embedded AWARD” at Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany. Now, once again at Embedded World, BenchX takes a step forward by integrating Lauterbach’s TRACE32, one of the industry’s most highly respected debuggers. BenchX now brings together the Eclipse framework, GNU C/C++ compiler tool chain, and the Lauterbach TRACE32 debugger.

Lauterbach’s TRACE32 offers a set of modular microprocessor development tools, supporting all commonly used embedded processors. The modular hardware and software ranges from low-cost tools to sophisticated, high-end in-circuit emulators. With its high-speed design, TRACE32 is the fastest hardware-based debug tool on the market. TRACE32 can be used to debug the whole system, be it the boot phase, exception routines, or user applications, in almost any host and target environment. This first integration with BenchX currently targets available ARM processors.

“BenchX gives our TRACE32 an Eclipse environment, making TRACE32 even more appealing to embedded developers,” noted Rudi Dienstbeck, Third-Party Manager of Lauterbach, GmbH. “TRACE32 gives developers all the capabilities they need for today’s advanced, complex system debugging, and BenchX surrounds it with the supporting tools developers have come to expect from an Eclipse IDE.”

BenchX is an enhanced implementation of Eclipse, with many additions and optimizations that make development of embedded systems much more practical. BenchX incorporates a unified “BenchX Perspective” that combines the most commonly used windows from the standard Eclipse C/C++ and Debug perspectives. Other additions include RTOS awareness for Express Logic’s popular ThreadX RTOS, removal of buttons and menu options extraneous to the embedded environment, and addition of a progress bar showing status of interaction with the target.

“BenchX brings Eclipse to embedded developers at an affordable price point, but without sacrificing functionality. BenchX comes with virtually unlimited functionality in its integration with Eclipse-compatible tools such as Lauterbach’s TRACE32,” noted William Lamie, president of Express Logic. “We have many customers using TRACE32 with our ThreadX RTOS, and now they can use TRACE32 from within the BenchX Perspective for even greater ease-of-use.”

Shipping and Availability

BenchX is available from Express Logic for as little as $1,000/developer. TRACE32 is available from Lauterbach and its affiliate offices.

About Express Logic and ThreadX

About Lauterbach

Lauterbach is the world’s leading manufacturer of complete, modular microprocessor development tools with 30 years experience in the field of embedded designs. Highest quality, innovation and expert support have lead to Lauterbach's worldwide leadership in the JTAG and in-circuit-emulator market. It is an international, well established company with blue chip customers in every corner of the globe and has a close working relationship with all semiconductor manufacturers. Besides the Headquarters in Hoehenkirchen, Germany, the company has its own branch offices in United Kingdom, Italy, France, on the East and West costs of the United States, Japan and China. Highly qualified sales and support engineers are also available in many other countries. Further information is available from www.lauterbach.com.

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ThreadX, BenchX, TraceX, and FileX are registered trademarks, and NetX, CANX, USBX, StackX, preemption-threshold, picokernel, and UDP fast path technology, are trademarks of Express Logic, Inc. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective hol

Express Logic Announces ThreadX(r) RTOS Support for Renesas SH7216 Series Microcontrollers

Express Logic — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:30:29 -0800

March 2, 2010 – Embedded World, Nuremberg, Germany ― Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced that Express Logic’s ThreadX® RTOS now supports Renesas Technology’s SH-2A core-based SH7216 microcontroller (MCU). Designed for small footprint, demanding real-time control, the ThreadX RTOS is a perfect match for the SH7216, an integrated connectivity chip targeting real-time control applications. Express Logic’s support technology—NetX™ TCP/IP and USB Host/Device/OTG stacks—also supports the SH7216’s connectivity needs.

“Express Logic’s leadership in royalty-free real-time operating systems makes them an ideal fit for the high-volume applications we target,” said Robert Kalman, Marketing Manager, Renesas Technology Europe. “ThreadX presents a small memory footprint with an easy-to-use, rich set of system services such as threads, message queues, counting semaphores, and mutexes. Embedded developers wanting a taste of our combined strengths can check out an evaluation version and demonstration application available for our SH7216 MCUs.”

Although its been introduced recently, the SH7216 has already become one of the most successful for Renesas, targeting connectivity and inverter markets. It features

communication interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN and USB along with 72 different connectivity options, giving developers maximum flexibility for their device, package, performance needs. Its inverter capabilities feature two dedicated timer units, each capable of automatic deadtime insertion, deadtime optimization and automatic synchronization with the analog-to-digital converter making it suitable for solar, motor control or other inverter applications.

The SH7216, capable of 480DMIPS and 400MFLOPS performance, enables extremely fast interrupt response (as low as 30 ns), and contains up to 1 MB of the industry’s fastest embedded flash, MONOS flash—performance only available from Renesas.

Express Logic’s ThreadX® RTOS offers a robust library of application-callable operating system services that simplify and optimize the performance of an embedded system. ThreadX is designed for microcontroller-based applications and features a small memory footprint of under 6KB so it can reside in even the most limited on-chip MCU memory. ThreadX provides preemptive, real-time, priority-based scheduling for optimum responsiveness and high performance and includes services such as thread scheduling, message passing, resource allocation, synchronization, and interrupt management.

User applications are easily managed and remain easily portable to higher- or lower-performance SH2-A core-based processors. ThreadX is complemented by FileX®, a full embedded file system, NetX™, a rich but small-footprint IPv4/IPv6 TCP/IP stack, USBX™, a full USB Host/Device/OTG stack, and PEGX™, a graphics development toolkit. TraceX®, Express Logic’s graphical real-time event analysis development tool, also is available for the SH7216. ThreadX is provided with full source code and is fully integrated into the Renesas HEW IDE.

“ThreadX support of the Renesas SH7216 marks the next step in a long partnership between two very strong players in the embedded space,” commented Udo Nuelle, Managing Director for Express Logic, GmbH. “The SH7216 with its integrated connectivity and Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS and stacks offer a great synergy that provides real value to customers in a wide range of different applications.”

A free evaluation version of ThreadX and a demonstration program in source code form are available for the SH7216 from Express Logic’s web site, www.rtos.com. The demonstration program consists of a simple multi-threaded application that uses many advanced, yet easy-to-use features of ThreadX, including message passing, thread creation, and scheduling. The entire application, including the ThreadX RTOS, requires less than 7KB of flash and less than 4KB of SRAM. Users can modify the demonstration or write a completely new ThreadX application up to the evaluation version’s limits, which consist of ten threads, one instantiation of each type of memory pool, and a maximum of two instantiations for each of the other ThreadX objects. The demo application is provided in C source code form, and is fully integrated with the SH7216 system and intended for use with the Renesas HEW tools.

“We are pleased to extend ThreadX RTOS support for Renesas’ family of SH-2A-based microcontrollers with support for the SH7216,” commented John Carbone, Vice President of Marketing of Express Logic. “These powerful MCUs operate at up to 200 MHz, enabling ThreadX to deliver sub-microsecond context switch performance for the most demanding real-time applications.”

Shipping and Availability

ThreadX is available in full source code form, royalty free, and at license prices starting at $12,500.

About Express Logic and ThreadX

Circuits, LLC Now Offers Rigid-Flex

Circuits, LLC — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:18:25 -0800

Murrysville, PA. Combining rigid and flexible substrates into a single printed circuit board offers designers the ability to improve reliability by reducing connector counts and complex wiring configurations. With the addition of an innerlayer adhesion promotion system, Circuits, LLC’s engineering team released the rigid-flex PCB manufacturing operations to production to offer a more dependable and cost effective alternative for their customers. Rigid- flex PCBs enable weight-reduction and more compact packaging with improved performance ideal for many military, aerospace and medical applications.

Circuits, LLC is well-equipped to take on rigid-flex PCB processing. The 50,000 square foot fabricating and testing facility houses a built-to-purpose, flow-optimized workspace specifically designed and equipped to produce consistent, high-quality flexible printed circuits with minimum handling and transport. The PCB manufacturing facility features a fully-integrated Class 1,000 clean room, a laser driller/router and a custom plating line configured for the production of complex circuits.

Rather than using a traditional oxide treatment in the manufacture of rigid-flex, Circuits chose an innerlayer adhesion promotion system that combines micro-etching and surface adhesion promotion to influence the flow of the pre-preg resin yielding significant interlaminar bond strength between resin and the copper surface. The COBRA Bond™ process (developed by OMG Electronic Chemicals) is designed to work with multiple types of foils, is scratch resistant and has lower overall processing costs. “The new system offers many benefits for Circuits and their customers,” according to Michael Carano, Global Manager Strategic Business Development and Marketing, OMG Electronic Chemicals, “plus the COBRA Bond™ process meets with Circuits’ “clean manufacturing” strategy because it is more environmentally sound than traditional oxide processes.”.

As both the mechanical and electrical aspects are a consideration when designing rigid-flex applications, Circuits, LLC offers their staff of experts to help customers design for manufacturability early in their process to insure the highest yields possible through the fabrication and the assembly process.

About Circuits, LLC

Circuits, LLC is a quality‐driven, customer‐focused manufacturer of highly reliable built‐to‐spec flexible printed circuit boards serving the defense, industrial, and medical markets with consistent quality and on‐time delivery unsurpassed by competitors.

Circuits, LLC

4060 Norbatrol Court

Murrysville, PA 15668

www.circuits‐corp.com

OMG Electronic Chemicals is a diversified global developer, producer and marketer of value-added specialty chemicals and advanced materials that are essential to complex chemical and industrial processes. Key technology-based end-use applications include affordable energy, portable power, clean air, clean water and proprietary products and services for the microelectronics industry. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, OMG Electronic Chemicals operates manufacturing facilities in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. For more information, visit www.omgi.com.

COBRA Bond™ is a registered trademark of OMG Electronic Chemicals.

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Lanner Releases Embedded System Powered by the latest Intel(r) Atom(tm) Processor D510

Lanner Electronics Inc. — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:51:03 -0800

(Taipei, Taiwan March 2nd 2010, 4:01pm) Today Lanner Electronics Inc., a 24 year veteran manufacturer of Industrial computers, released the LEC-7100, a fanless industrial computer powered by the new dual core Intel® Atom™ processor D510 at 1.66GHz. The LEC-7100 comes equipped with VGA, DVI-D, 4 x USB and 2 x LAN ports, along with wireless capabilities. This embedded system is designed to be easily deployable for a variety of industrial and commercial applications.

“We’re very excited about the new dual core Intel® Atom™ processor and the advantages it brings to our fanless computers,” said Spencer Chou, Product Planner, Embedded Business Group, Lanner Electronics. “As a member of the Intel® Embedded Alliance, Lanner is able to utilize the latest Intel technologies to develop cutting-edge embedded products like the new Lanner LUGE 7100. The LEC-7100 is a versatile network-ready computer with all the interfaces needed for a wide variety of end-use applications, and with the new 1.66GHz Intel® Atom™ processor, we’ve developed a powerful solution that improves on all aspects of the fanless design, including performance, stability, power consumption and price.”

“The Intel® Atom™ processor D510 is power-optimized and delivers robust performance-per-watt for cost-effective embedded solutions,” says Jonathan Luse, marketing director, Intel Low Power Embedded Products Division. “Embedded platforms built with the new multi-threaded Intel Atom processor can deliver a combination of low power consumption, high performance and a smaller, more efficient footprint due to the integration of the graphics and memory controllers on the chip, opening new design and application opportunities for developers.”

The LUGE LEC-7100 includes multiple audio and video interfaces, two gigabit LAN network ports, and two storage interfaces – CompactFlash Type I/II and SATA HDD. Another stand out feature in the LEC-7100 is the ability to communicate wirelessly. There is a 3G/GPS module attached through a mini PCIe socket, as well as WiFi ready hardware.

Additionally, the LEC-7100 features both VGA and DVI-D video ports, delivering increased flexibility for dual display applications such as digital signage, point of sales, kiosk and jackpot displays.

The Lanner LEC-7100 embedded computer is designed for flexible deployment in any scenario. Its robust fanless design makes the LEC-7100 an ideal solution for video applications such as digital signs, outdoor advertising and kiosk systems. The onboard 1.66GHz dual core Intel® Atom™ processor D510 provides outstanding performance with very low power consumption and minimal cooling requirements, resulting in improved stability and longevity and providing a higher return on investment.

For more information please visit our website: www.lannerinc.com/embedded/LEC-7100.

Or contact our sales department: sales@lannerinc.com

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About Lanner

Founded in 1986 and publicly listed (TAIEX 6245) since 2003, Lanner Electronics, Inc. is an ISO 9001 certified designer and manufacturer of network application platforms, network video platforms and applied computing hardware for first-tier companies. Lanner's expertise also extends to include driver and firmware support, enabling customers to optimize hardware and software communication to achieve faster time to market. With headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan and branches in the U.S. and China, Lanner is uniquely positioned to deliver custom technical solutions with localized, value-added service. Lanner is an Associate Member of the Intel® Embedded and Communications Alliance, a group of companies committed to developing modular, standards-based solutions based on technologies, processors, products, and services from Intel®.

*Intel and Intel Atom are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.

SYSGO integrates flexible multi-core support in new DO-178B certified PikeOS 3.1 release

SYSGO — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:50:53 -0800

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.

The very first illustration of this product philosophy is the DO-178B certified 3.1 version: exactly the same core components are available to all customers, whether they have a certification requirement or not. This extra level of safety and security is a great advantage for systems that can also take advantage of the wide range of functionality offered through the different Personalities.

But 3.1 is the first implementation of an even more interesting feature that will be fully developed in the upcoming 4.0 version, scheduled for Q4 2010: multi-core support through a flexible approach made available to the user who can select an execution model ranging from a pure AMP (Asymmetric Multi Processing) to full SMP (Symmetric Multi Processing). The SSV design developed by SYSGO made it particularly suitable for multi-core architectures. The resource and time partitioning model makes the development of concurrent applications on multi-core platforms easier for the user: only core assignment needs new action from the user, the rest of the partitioning remains the same as before.

Combined with the fact that the multi-core related code is integrated within the certified code basis, this user-friendly and powerful extended SMP implementation makes PikeOS 3.1 the first solution of its kind on the market. Moreover, this flexible multi-core support model is hardware agnostic, in line with the original PikeOS principle.

“We see PikeOS becoming the reference in the domain of new generation of RTOS”, said Michael Tiedemann, CEO of SYSGO.”The SSV concept we were the first to develop has a clear advantage over other solutions based on an old legacy RTOS combined with new immature software hypervisor technologies. This new 3.1 version has been well received by our existing customers and more and more developers across different application fields are convinced by this innovative but clean, safe and secure approach to multi-core support.”

Availability

PikeOS 3.1 is available now. The families of supported processors are today the x86, PowerPC, MIPS, ARM and SPARC. The supported personalities are the PikeOS Native, ARINC-653, Linux, POSIX, and Certified POSIX. The multi-core capability is fully implemented on Intel families. Available hosts are Windows and Linux.

About PikeOS

PikeOS is an innovative product, providing an embedded systems platform where multiple virtual machines can run simultaneously in a secure environment. The Safe and Secure Virtualization (SSV) technology allows multiple operating system APIs, called “Personalities”, to run concurrently on one machine, e.g. an ARINC-653 application together with Linux. The PikeOS microkernel architecture allows it to be used in cost sensitive, resource constrained devices as well as large, complex systems. The simplicity and compactness of the PikeOS design results in real-time performance that competes head-to-head with conventional proprietary RTOS solutions. PikeOS is certifiable to safety standards like DO-178B, IEC 61508 or EN 50128, and is also MILS compliant.

About SYSGO

SYSGO provides operating system technology, middleware, and software services for the real-time and embedded market. A differentiating capability of SYSGO is the Safe and Secure Virtualization platform PikeOS, a paravirtualization operating system which is built upon a small, fast, and safe microkernel. It supports the co-existence of independent operating system personalities on a single platform, including ELinOS, SYSGO’s embedded Linux distribution. SYSGO supports international customers with services for embedded Linux, real-time capabilities and certification for safety-critical applications. Markets include Aerospace & Defense, Industrial Automation, Automotive, Transportation and Network Infrastructure. Customers include Airbus, Honeywell, Thales, Daimler, Raytheon, Rheinmetall, Rockwell-Collins, Siemens, and Rohde & Schwarz. SYSGO has facilities in Germany, France, The Czech Republic and North America, and offers a global distribution and support network, including Europe and the Pacific Rim.

For more information please visit www.sysgo.com.

Further information

Sysgo

Jacques Brygier

jacques.brygier@sysgo.com

www.sysgo.com

Emteco

susanne.kaempgen@emteco.de

www.emteco.de

SYSGO, ELinOS, PikeOS, CODEO, and other SYSGO products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SYSGO. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

SYSGO integrates flexible multi-core support in new DO-178B certified PikeOS 3.1 release

SYSGO — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:29:37 -0800

Availability

About PikeOS

About SYSGO

For more information please visit www.sysgo.com.

Further information

Sysgo

Jacques Brygier

jacques.brygier@sysgo.com

www.sysgo.com

Emteco

susanne.kaempgen@emteco.de

www.emteco.de

Lanner's Fanless Digital Signage Platform With Dual Display Support and S-Video Connection

Lanner Electronics Inc. — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:36:13 -0800

(Taipei, Taiwan) Lanner has released the LEC-7030, an interactive platform aimed at the narrowcasting segment of the digital signage market. New features of the LEC-7030 include both S-Video and RCA Audio inputs. Additional features include an onboard 1.6GHz Intel Atom with VGA and DVI-D video outs.

The VGA and DVI-D video outputs can be connected to any digital signage screen to produce vivid video and audio. Utilizing both outputs can increase the surface area of the message and can increase signage effectiveness. Applications include high impact advertising screens in locations such as shopping malls, tourist destinations and mass transport.

By designing the LEC-7030 to have both analog S-Video and RCA Audio inputs, Lanner has enabled additional signage functionality. By setting an external camera connected via the S-Video port, this platform can record data regarding customer viewership- allowing you to act upon that data to increase your signage effectiveness. Unlike IP cameras, the S-Video input can provide high quality video footage at a low price, without effecting network capabilities.

Hardware specifications for the LEC-7030 include an onboard 1.6GHz Intel Atom (N270) and an Intel 945GSE+ICH7M chipset. The LEC-7030 can hold up to 2GBs of RAM through a single SODIMM socket. It supports one 2.5” SATA HDD, DOM, and CompactFlash.

As for I/O ports there are 2 x RS-232 COM, 1 x Digital I/O, 4 x USB 2.0 and 1 RJ45 GbE port.

In addition to the RCA inputs there are RCA outputs for high quality sound.

With industrial components, the LEC 7030 has been tested for a temperature range between -10 degrees to 55 degrees Celsius. It is compatible with both Linux kernel 2.14.6 and above, along with both Windows XPE and Windows XP 32-bit.

For more information please visit the product page at: www.lannerinc.com/interactive/LEC-7030

Or contact our sales department at: sales@lannerinc.com

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About Lanner

Founded in 1986 and publicly listed (TAIEX 6245) since 2003, Lanner Electronics, Inc. is an ISO 9001 certified designer and manufacturer of applied computing hardware for first-tier companies. Lanner's expertise enables customers to optimize hardware and software communication to achieve faster time to market. With headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan and branches in the U.S. and China, Lanner is uniquely positioned to deliver customized solutions with localized, value-added service. Lanner is an Associate Member of the Intel® Embedded and Communications Alliance, a group of companies committed to developing modular, standards-based solutions based on technologies, processors, products, and services from Intel®.

G Systems Delivers NASA Orion Test Stations

G Systems — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:13:12 -0800

RICHARDSON, Texas – February 24, 2010 – G Systems, a test and measurement automation company specializing in challenging data acquisition requirements, delivered its first system for a new Orion crew exploration vehicle test station at NASA’S Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana. Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor to NASA for Orion, awarded G Systems three contracts valued at over $1 million as part of a multi-phase delivery plan to design, integrate, and install an automated data acquisition and analysis test station for Orion by June 2010. The test stations will provide critical data to ensure structural endurance and spacecraft safety.

G Systems’ first system, the Data Acquisition System (DAS), will be used at the Orion Structural Test Facility (OSTF) to view, collect, store, analyze, and transfer data from more than 1,400 analog data channels. Primary data input will be from strain gauges applied to the Orion Crew Module, Service Module (SM), Launch Abort System Fairing Assembly (LASFA), and heat shield structures during ground testing. The G Systems designed DAS will collect stress data such as torque, strain, and pressure to simulate and measure the effects the Orion spacecraft will experience during take-off, space flight, and re-entry.

The second test and measurement system, the Data Distribution System (DDS), includes hardware and custom software to collect, distribute, and analyze audio, video, and parametric data collected by the DAS. The DDS will be capable of receiving streaming, real-time test data from greater than 3,500 data channels. The DDS will also control a number of cameras and be able to record, display, and playback all acquired signals simultaneously on multiple client PCs via a network.

The third test system provided by G Systems is a computerized pressure and vent system which integrates with the DAS for pressure testing the Crew Module. This system is capable of pressurizing the cabin using either air or helium. The tool also includes an operator control terminal for setting and regulating pressure and monitoring temperature.

G Systems will provide complete turn-key test systems that include hardware and software design, fabrication, system integration, training, and support acceptance testing at the Michoud Assembly Facility.

“These Orion test systems will take advantage of G Systems’ extensive experience in cost-effectively delivering complex high channel count test systems requiring time-synchronized data acquisition and analysis,” said Doug Kibler, G Systems’ Senior Sales Manager. “The new system provides NASA and Lockheed Martin a robust platform for stress testing with precision measurements and data management.”

About G Systems, L.P.

Headquartered in Richardson, Texas, G Systems, L.P. (G Systems) is a privately held engineering services and systems integration company offering expertise in designing turnkey test and measurement, data acquisition, and control systems. Since 1990,

G Systems has maintained a strong reputation for reliable delivery of quality automated test and control systems. G Systems supplies test system products/services to aerospace/defense, telecom, manufacturing, semiconductor, energy, and medical industries.

Rochester Electronics re-creates, manufactures critical end-of-life semiconductors, enabling customers to avoid system re-qualification

Rochester Electronics — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:25:36 -0800

NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (February 24, 2010) - Rochester Electronics, the world's largest authorized manufacturer of discontinued semiconductors, provides authorized reverse-engineering services to re-create, manufacture and distribute pin-for-pin replacement parts with matched cycle for cycle timing for aftermarket semiconductor devices. Through its unique Rochester Semiconductor Replication Process(TM) (SRP(TM)), customers can avoid system re-qualification steps as the Rochester-designed and manufactured parts deliver the same specifications and performance characteristics as the original products. Rochester engineers deconstruct and electrically analyze the critically needed semiconductor device, re-design the part using scope and scanning electron microscope (SEM) images, and re-engineer it onto a matched mature foundry process to replicate the original components.

Even when the IP and design archives are no longer available, Rochester's design engineers can build the semiconductor component from scratch. In some cases, Rochester engineers can add capabilities and technologies to the semiconductor device to make it RoHS compliant, or achieve commercial-to-military upgrades, radiation-hardened level enhancements, higher temperature tolerances, and other performance improvements.

In addition, the re-creation and manufacturing of semiconductor devices provided by Rochester is authorized by the original manufacturer, eliminating any potential legal issues from patent or IP infringement.

"Unlike most companies that merely emulate the performance characteristics and parameters of a discontinued semiconductor device, Rochester re-creates exact duplicates of the original part through its precise Semiconductor Replication Process. Even when the original IP is no longer available, our experienced design engineers can re-build a semiconductor device that is virtually identical to the original to provide a continuing, long-term supply of silicon wafers and finished devices," said Paul Gerrish, co-president of Rochester Electronics. "The modern-day semiconductor foundries support a tighter process window than was originally achieved resulting in a more consistent high-quality, high performance semiconductor.

Rochester has already successfully reversed-engineered processors, ASICS, co-processors, controllers, memory, Op Amps, logic and linear semiconductors with voltages ranging from 3V to 100V and line widths as small as .18 microns. Recently re-created devices include several ASICS, Texas Instruments TMS32044 DSP, and Intel's IXF1002 Dual Port gigabit Ethernet controller. These Rochester re-created devices have provided a reliable continuous supply of end-of-life semiconductors to the aerospace, telecomm, military and medical industries.

For more information, contact Rochester Electronics at 16 Malcolm Hoyt Drive, Newburyport, Massachusetts 01950; by calling 978-462-9332; by fax at 978-462-9512; e-mail sales@rocelec.com; or on the Web at www.rocelec.com .

About Rochester Electronics, LLC

Rochester Electronics, LLC. is the world's most comprehensive source and solution for discontinued semiconductors. Authorized by more than 50 leading semiconductor manufacturers, Rochester purchases all remaining finished devices, wafer/die and available intellectual property. All products are 100% manufacturer traceable and certified. Rochester's product offering includes more than five billion finished devices, ten billion die and 20,000+ Rochester continuing manufacturing device types. Rochester is privately held and worldwide corporate headquarters are located at 16 Malcolm Hoyt Drive, Newburyport, MA 01950 USA, Sales offices are also located throughout the U.S, Europe and Asia. Phone 978-462-9332, Email: sales@rocelec.com, Web site: www.rocelec.com.

ISD860: Cost-effective Intelligent Servo Drive Exploits the Power of TML

TECHNOSOFT — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:44:25 -0800

Based on the Technosoft MotionChipTM DSP technology, ISD860 is a flexible intelligent drive specially developed for motion applications that need cost-optimized design, embedded intelligence, networking possibilities and high servo performance control. ISD860 is able to drive 12 A continuous and 31 A peak currents at a supply voltage ranging from 12 to 72 VDC with a PWM of 20 kHz frequency. The drive embeds motion controller, drive and PLC functionality in one unit (size: 136 x 84x 26 mm) and controls brushless, DC or linear motors up to 860 W continuous / 2.2 kW peak. Thanks to its advanced motion control algorithms, a precise control of position, speed or torque over a wide range of dynamic conditions can be achieved.

ISD860 works in single-axis, multi-axis or stand alone configurations. The drive setup, tuning and motion programming are simple with EasyMotion Studio and Technosoft Motion Language (TML). With ISD860, motion programming can be done from a CAN master, via PC / PLC, using the appropriate motion library, or directly at drive level through its built-in motion controller. The embedded Technosoft Motion Language includes a high-level command protocol, which can be used by the host through the on-board RS232 / CAN serial interfaces. A CANopen version of the ISD860, supporting DS-301 and DSP-402 profiles, is also available. In stand-alone operation, ISD860 can be managed with programmable I/Os or analog inputs.

Using the TML language, multiple operations can be performed with ISD860: setting of various motion modes (profiles, PVT, PT, electronic gearing or camming, etc), change of motion modes and/or parameters, execution of homing sequences or program flow control. At the same time, IDS860 can handle digital I/O and analog input signals, execute arithmetic and logic operations, and transfer data between axes. The drive is able to control other axes via motion commands. Moreover, ISD860 can send commands to a group of axes, or synchronize all the axes from a network.

Flexibility and easy implementation make ISD860 an ideal solution to fulfilling today's higher-power motion axis control needs using modern distributed intelligence architecture. The drive is perfectly suited for cost-sensitive applications from medical to factory automation requiring high servo performance and enhanced compactness.