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News and Views 12/22/09
Eurotech offers a diverse portfolio of low-power, high-performance embedded solutions based on Intel Atom technologies such as the eMenlow Z5xx Catalyst EC, the Navy Pier N270 Aludra, and the Luna Pier N450 Catalyst LP and D510 platforms.
Lawrence Ricci
The Embedded Insider
News and Views 10/16/09
Eurotech sells products and solutions, not just single board computers. A big order was just booked for automatic passenger counters. The PCN-1001 is unique in that is it accurate enough to check cash fare collection.
Lawrence Ricci
The Embedded Insider
News and Views 10/01/09
Here are three videos about embedded, from the MS point of view. The interesting one is the retro view, from 2007.
1. Microsoft 2019 (Published 2009) General MS video- notice not a desktop or server to be seen. 100% embedded, much surface computing technology. MS has a team working on every single thing you see here. Surface is multi-touch, multi-user, multi-media input and output. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiqgmAYrd3c&feature=PlayList&p=8C7EA2FCDDE88894&index=0&playnext=1
2. Microsoft 2010 (published 2007) This is the really interesting one. In 2007 MS were showing exactly the 2010 product rollout. Everything you see here is Windows 7 or Windows Mobile 6.5. Point is, Microsoft not only spins a vision, they MAKE it happen. Their vision statement is a product roadmap. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiTb3-t4YJk&feature=PlayList&p=8C7EA2FCDDE88894&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1
3. Smart, Connected, Service Oriented Devices (now/Transition, published 2009) This is the ‘embedded’ extension of the current vision. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoG0yicRl10
Smart, connected Service oriented edge servers- see them here
Lawrence Ricci
The Embedded Insider
News and Views 5/29/09
Something Years and years of experience, plus the advantages of Atom CPU technology, are making possible Fanless Computers
Lawrence Ricci
The Embedded Insider
News and Views 1/22/09
Something new for us- a SaaS, in fact PaaS (Product as a Service) offering - Ridernet3. If you can get WiFi on your commuter bus or WiFi on your train, you may be using it now.
Lawrence Ricci
The Embedded Insider
News and Views 1/13/09
Operating systems? Fagetabowdit!! In the world of pervasive computing, it will be all abo0ut "Application Frameworks" to tie devices to devices.
Nokia is the biggest sup0plier of connected, mobile devices. What they do is what the 800 pound gorilla does, and they do NoTA- Network on Terminal Architecture.
Lining up with them we see the European Artemis program. This program will line up with the Eurotech NoTA initative . Eurotech is running its contribution along the IBM Websphere lines, using the MQTT Publish and Subscribe protocol.
This could be big- keep posted.
Lawrence Ricci
The Embedded Insider
News and Views 1/5/09
Something old is new again. PC104 with Atom. Interesting, but PC104 Atom seems to be a 'hot' combination.
PC104 we know- a 30 years old standard. It is a power glutton 16 bit ISA Bus in a different package. But why build a post millennium , 32 bit 45 nano meter Atom Processor into this from factor?
Who knows? Lets just call it form factor inertia.
Lawrence Ricci
The Embedded Insider
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