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For those of you involved in embedded systems development: which of the following types of operating system are you planning to use in your next project?
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In-house developed OS
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 11%
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Commercial proprietary
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 13%
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Linux
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 41%
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Android
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 12%
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My project doesn't need an OS
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 22%
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U.S., Intel agree to narrow antitrust case
With the antitrust case against Intel Corp. set to open next Tuesday (March 9), EE Times has learned that U.S. and Intel attorneys agreed as early as last August to narrowly focus the Federal Trade Commission's case on general-purpose microprocessors, excluding key areas of concern like graphics controllers and chip sets.
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TI hunts for new opportunities in DSP, analog
In a series of interviews around its annual financial-analysts' meeting here, Texas Instruments Inc. disclosed details of a new phase of its corporate strategy to be the leading company in digital signal processing. Now that TI, through divestitures and acquisitions, has zeroed in on DSP, it is attempting to more tightly focus its DSP efforts themselves with an emerging software strategy, a fine-tuned DSP product line, an expanding set of target markets and a vastly broader array of standard analog parts aiming at secondary sockets linked to its DSP sales.
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AMCC snaps up Sonet chip specialist Cimaron
Applied Microcircuits Corp. (AMCC) stands to augment its higher-layer packet-processing capabilities through its definitive agreement this week to acquire Cimaron Communications Corp. (Andover, Mass.), a startup developing both standard chips and intellectual-property cores for the Sonet market.
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Intel looks beyond PC with Level One deal
With Intel Corp.'s offer to acquire Level One Communications Inc. for a $2.2 billion stock swap, the world's largest semiconductor maker took another huge leap in transforming itself from a desktop monolith to a chip maker poised for the post-PC era.
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Drive afoot to establish PC133 alternative
A groundswell of support for the PC133 DRAM specification is building in Taiwan and the United States. With Intel Corp. otherwise occupied with the difficult transition to the Rambus memory architecture, a growing number of memory and chip-set companies are working to establish PC133 as an alternative to Rambus in the marketplace.
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Update: Philips bid for VLSI turns hostile
Royal Philips Electronics NV has renewed its $17 per share bid for VLSI Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.), but this time on a hostile basis.
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More MCU vendors join emWare fold
Three of the market's largest microcontroller vendors — Mitsubishi Electronics America Inc., Motorola Inc.'s Semiconductor Products Sector and National Semiconductor Corp. — announced at the Embedded Systems Conference that they will join the Embed the Internet Alliance led by emWare Inc. (Salt Lake City).
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VLSI asks Philips to wait on acquisition offer
VLSI Technology Inc. said it will take until March 23 to consider an unsolicited acquisition offer from Royal Philips Electronics NV (Amsterdam, Netherlands).
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STMicro pursues CMOS for single-chip phone
STMicroelectronics is investigating CMOS as a vehicle for RF circuits operating up to the 2-GHz frequencies used for mobile telephony. Other European semiconductor makers and many universities around the world are also eyeing CMOS for radio-frequency applications, although a true single-chip phone combining power amplifier, memories and the necessary passives for today's architectures remains a distant prospect.
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Sonet PHY vendors innovate at chip, module levels
There was no shortage of analog front ends, including commodity single-chip transceivers for OC-48 (2.5-Gbit/second) at last week's Optical Fibers Conference show. Even early commercial implementations of OC-192 (10-Gbit) transceivers were in evidence — both the interface circuits for 10-Gbit mux/demux and scrambling and the integrated modules that combine drivers and amps with a laser source.
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Lucent picks up Enable's Ethernet business
Lucent Microelectronics gained some low-power CMOS physical-layer transciever designs for Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet through its acquisition this week of the LAN portion of Enable Semiconductor Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.) for $50 million in cash. Meanwhile, the low-power memory business of Enable is being renamed Nanoamp Solutions Inc., and will continue to operate as an independent company.
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Sun offers open licenses to picoJava, Sparc cores
Adopting the open-source model of the software industry, Sun Microsystems Inc. said the source code for its picoJava processor would be available free-of-charge to developers by the end of this month. And later this year Sun will make its 32-bit and 64-bit Sparc and UltraSparc cores a part of its new Community Source Licensing Model.
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Suppliers take divergent paths to reprogramming MCUs
In-system programmability (ISP) promises to be a popular topic at the Embedded Systems Conference, being held this week, as two vendors introduce new products that illustrate diverging strategies for reprogramming microcontrollers.
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Multichip BGA melds memory, graphics core
Extending its reach into the lower end of the notebook-computer market, Silicon Motion Inc. is producing a multiple-die chip that matches the footprint of its high-end 3-D graphics accelerators.
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Conexant chip integrates cable-modem functions
Conexant Systems Inc. will widen the single-chip cable-modem market this week with a device that includes all transceiver and media-access control (MAC) functions specified by the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (Docsis). The new CN9414 InfoSurge chip offers direct interfaces to Conexant's existing single-chip RF tuner and to its upcoming packet voice codec for voice-over-Internet Protocol.
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MoSys licenses single-transistor SRAM to three suppliers
MoSys Inc., which has been selling the discrete form of its single-transistor SRAM architecture for several years, has licensed its technology to three disparate chip vendors: Analog Devices Inc. (Norwood, Mass.), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
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Win Anders Electronics' evaluation kit for its latest 5.7” touchscreen TFT LCD display
This month, Anders Electronics is giving away a full evaluation kit of its recently released 5.7inch UMR 5 intelligent display unit, for one of EE Times Europe's readers to win.
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Prize winners of our previous reader offer
In the January edition of EE Times Europe, NEC Electronics was giving away five Five V850/Jx3-E Network-It! supporting Ethernet, USB, and CAN from a V850ES 32-bit MCU based device. And the winners are...
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European Nanoelectronics project seeks more proposals
CATRENE, the industry-driven Cluster for Application and Technology Research in Europe on NanoElectronics (EUREKA 4140) has announced its third call for project proposals from Feb 1 to June 1, 2010.
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Engineers explore life beyond 10 Gbit links
Electronics engineers are bumping up against the limits of their tools and techniques—and perhaps even physics--to keep pace with the rapidly expanding needs of an Internet-driven society as they coalesce around a move to 25 Gbit/second chips and ponder what comes next.
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EE Times Europe January edition
Packed with exclusive content, the January edition reviews what could be the hot technologies of 2010, and extends throughout three Design & Products focuses, namely on Analog Design, Wireless Electronics and Interconnect.
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