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	Dedicated Systems e-Spotlight: Vol 10, Issue 13s published on April 1, 2009
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	Embedded Masterclass 2009 Developing Safety Critical Software - Meet the Experts The Embedded Masterclass offers the opportunity for developers to meet key vendors of tools and software for the development of mission critical systems.... This year's UK high-tech developers conference, the Embedded Masterclass will give engineers developing safety critical software a chance to meet with several experts in this field and even to undertake a half-day workshop in Software Timing Analysis. Several of the vendors exhibiting at this event develop products for mission critical software development within automotive systems, avionics, medical, and safety control systems. The Embedded Masterclass will take place near Cambridge and Bristol on the 7th and 12th May - http://www.embedded-masterclass.com "For anyone involved in the development of high-integrity software, this event will be a very productive use of their time," said Richard Blackburn, the organiser. &...	Full version Date : Mar 23, 2009


	SPOTLIGHT SELECTION

	This is the spotlight edition of our e-gazette. You can still find all submitted announcements on our website.	All submitted announcements

	Industry News (Market)

	Concurrent Technologies Concurrent Technologies: Latest Intel® Xeon® processors available on new 6U CompactPCI® boards CONCURRENT TECHNOLOGIES has released the PP 66x/071 family of 6U CompactPCI boards, one of the first product ranges to feature the quad core 2.13 GHz Intel® Xeon® processor L5518 or the dual core 2.0 GHz Intel® Xeon® pro... For more details on this product, including datasheet, visit http://www.gocct.com/sheets/pp66x07x.htm For a photograph visit http://www.gocct.com/sheets/picture/hires/jpgimage/pp66x07x-hires.jpg For enquiries... mailto:jba@cct.co.uk Concurrent Technologies has released the PP 66x/071 family of 6U CompactPCI boards, one of the first product ranges to feature the quad core 2.13 GHz Intel® Xeon® processor L5518 or the dual core 2.0 GHz Intel® Xeon® processor L5508, both of which were released today by Intel. Based on 45nm process technology and the new Intel® microarchitecture, formerly codena...	Full version Date: Mar 31, 2009
	HCC Embedded LPC3250 fully supported HCC-Embedded announce that they now have full support for the LPC3250. Available modules includes full USB host stack, USB device stack, and file systems including NAND flash controller and SD card controller.... The LPC3220/30/40/50 embedded microcontrollers were designed for low power, high performance applications. It uses an ARM926EJ-S CPU core with a vector floating point co-processor and a large set of standard peripherals including USB On-The-Go and operates at CPU frequencies of up to 266 MHz. HCC have ported all their standard peripheral drivers to this device including USB host controller, USB device controller, OTG controller, NAND flash controller and Secure Digital Card controller. This makes available HCC's entire firmware product range for use on this range of devices including USB host stack, USB device stack, OTG module, FAT, file system, SAFE-FAT file system, SAFE-Flash file system and FTL. Complete working projects can be provided for both the Phyt...	Full version Date: Mar 31, 2009

	Other

	Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing Curtiss-Wright Controls division receives Silver Boeing performance excellence award Curtiss-Wright Controls today announced that its Embedded Computing division, headquartered in Leesburg, VA, has been named a recipient of the 2008 Boeing Performance Excellence Award in recognition of its superior suppl... Prestigious Annual Award Recognizes Superior Supplier Performance LEESBURG, VA - March 31, 2009 - Curtiss-Wright Controls today announced that its Embedded Computing division, headquartered in Leesburg, VA, has been named a recipient of the 2008 Boeing Performance Excellence Award in recognition of its superior supplier performance. The Boeing Company issues the award annually. Curtiss-Wright Controls maintained a Silver composite performance rating for each month of the 12-month performance period, from Oct. 1, 2007, to Sept. 30, 2008. This year, Boeing recognized 411 suppliers who achieved either a Gold or Silver level Boeing Performance Excellence Award. Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing is among 325 suppliers to receive the Silver level of recognition.	Full version Date: Apr 01, 2009

	Passive Components

	ELMA Electronic Inc. Bustronic announces 6-slot ATCA backplane Elma Bustronic Corporation, an industry leading designer and manufacturer of high performance backplanes has announced a 6-slot AdvancedTCA backplane in a mesh topology. The flexible design also allows a Dual Star topolo... Elma Bustronic Corporation, an industry leading designer and manufacturer of high performance backplanes has announced a 6-slot AdvancedTCA Backplane in a Mesh topology. The flexible design also allows a Dual Star topology to be implemented. The 6-slot ATCA backplane now features standard MicroTCA connectors used for connections to Elma´s IPM Sentry shelf manager. The small and dense connector minimizes the space used on the backplane. The 6-slot is compact enough to fit within a 5U horizontal ATCA enclosure, along with 2 shelf manager connectors within the card cage. This is among the densest ATCA design in the marketplace. Compliant to the latest PICMG 3.0 specification, the 6-slot ATCA backplane features an 18-layer controlled-impedance stripline design. Ther...	Full version Date: Mar 31, 2009

	Tools

	Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing Curtiss-Wright Controls adds multiprocessor debugger to its Continuum Insights 3.0 Multiprocessor Tool Suite Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing announced that it has added a powerful new multiprocessor debugger feature to Continuum Insights 3.0, its popular suite of GUI-based System Monitoring, Event Analysis, and Syste... Leesburg, VA - March 30, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, VXS and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, announced that it has added a powerful new multiprocessor debugger feature to Continuum Insights 3.0, its popular suite of GUI-based System Monitoring, Event Analysis, and System Management software tools for developers of embedded multicomputer systems application software. Continuum Insights is the industry´s first development tool suite to offer a multiprocessor debugger, an essential tool for system integrators developing large multiprocessor systems. The new debugger tool speeds and simplifies the development of embedded multiprocessor systems for demanding di...	Full version Date: Apr 01, 2009

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