· Dual-Core Freescale 1.5 GHz 8641D PowerPC · Fabric-transparent gigabit serial crossbar switch · Dual optical gigabit serial transceivers · Dual PMC/XMC mezzanine board sites · Supports serial RapidIO, Fibre Channel, Xilinx Aurora and more · Xilinx Virtex FPGA for custom DSP and serial protocols Pentek, Inc., one of the pioneers of VME board-level technology, today ...

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Royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS) company Express Logic has added support for the 16-bit microcontrollers through a partnership with Microchip Technology with its ThreadX Microcontroller Edition RTOS. Until now, ThreadX has been available only for 32-bit processors and DSPs. But through a co-operative effort with Microchip, Express Logic has created a ...

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Linux has become well-established in the world of embedded design, but there are often reservations about its real-time performance. There are significant advantages to using Linux. A careful analysis of the real-time performance requirements of a system design can reveal whether Linux can be used or a real-time operating system ...

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An embedded operating system (OS) or Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) is a multitasking operating system intended for real-time applications and designed to be very compact and efficient, forsaking many functions that non-embedded computer operating systems provide. It facilitates the creation of a real-time system, but does not guarantee the final ...

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Moving on now to in-app purchases, peer-to-peer support, accessories, and push notifications — things we heard about at Apple’s (AAPL) previous iPhone 3.0 event. Forstall offering the same details and sales pitch. In fact, this portion of the presentation looks like it’s been re-purposed from that real time operating system ...

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