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news ARTEMIS and ENIAC get parlimentary approval The European Parliament has given its support to the EU’s ﬁrst four Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs), voting in favour of them by a large majority at a plenary session in Strasbourg. The JTIs which include ARTEMIS and ENIAC will pool resources from industry, the Member States and the Commission, creating a critical mass in key strategic areas. Each JTI must be approved by the Council and Parliament and the four will now be launched this year. JTIs are intended to target areas where existing funding mechanisms cannot deliver at the scale and speed thought necessary to keep Europe at the top of the competitiveness ladder. ARTEMIS deals with embedded computing with forecasts suggesting that there will be over 16 billion embedded devices by 2010, and over 40 billion worldwide by 2020. ENIAC will target the miniaturisation required for the next generations of nanoelectronics components and should help Europe to secure a share of the €200 billion semiconductor market. The other two JTIs to gain approval are the innovative medicine initiative which supports the improved and safer development of new medicines, as well as Europe’s competitiveness in biomedicine; and the Clean Sky program which seeks to increase the competitiveness of the European aeronautics industry whilst reducing the environmental burden of air transport (emissions and noise). All of the JTIs will receive money from the EU budget, in addition to money from industry and national budgets. Esterel and AbsInt integrate products Esterel Technologies and AbsInt are developing an integrated environment for developing mission and safety-critical embedded software applications, featuring a seamless workﬂow between Esterel SCADE and AbsInt’s aiT and StackAnalyzer products. The combination of the products provides visibility into the run-time performance of the system by reporting the worst case execution timing (WCET) and stack usage of each design element, at the model level. By raising the level of abstraction with these analysis capabilities, embedded software developers can identify and eliminate potential design ﬂaws. Without having written a single line of code, developers can determine which part of the design may contribute most to WCET or stack usage and refactor the design accordingly, saving development cycle time and optimizing performance. Product teardowns come to a screen near you CMP’s electronics group has launched of Teardown TV, a video-based extension of the ‘Under The Hood’ series of product teardowns. Product teardowns are an important part of many company’s design intelligence and provide direct insight into how other designers have met design challenges-or haven’t. With Teardown TV, the group is now leveraging the clear power of video as a vehicle for disseminating deep technical information in a short period of time. Each episode will take the viewer through a detailed analysis of the product design including layout, major subassembly design and integration, and component selection. The teardowns also include a discussion of what design challenges arose and were overcome, how trade-offs were balanced and how effectively 6 the overall design met its goals. “While the innovation to compete in a global environment must still come from within, looking at what came before and learning from other’s successes or failures is always useful,” says Patrick Mannion, editor-in-chief of TechOnline. “Teardown TV presents this information in an informative and visually engaging style. Designers will learn something new from each episode.” “From watches to radios, engineers have been tearing things down as far back as they can remember,” said Rich Nass, editorial director of CMP’s Embedded group. “With Teardown TV, we’re satisfying that innate curiosity, but taking it one step further by helping them see and understand how the technologies and techniques used in today’s “From watches to radios, engineers have been tearing things down as far back as they can remember,” said Rich Nass, editorial director of CMP’s Embedded group. “With Teardown TV, we’re satisfying that innate curiosity, but taking it one step further by helping them see and understand how the technologies and techniques used in today’s cutting-edge designs are being used to overcome the age-old design challenges of cost, size, power, performance, signal integrity, user interfaces, and software development.” The inaugural episode looks at the HP 35s scientiﬁc calculator, comparing it to previous generation calculators from HP. Upcoming episodes will examine the Flip Ultra digital camcorder from Pure Digital and a Sony eBook reader. To see Teardown TV visit http:// cmptv.net/TearDownTV/videoPlayer. html or go to www.eetimes.com.. JANUARY – FEBRUARY 2008 | embedded systems design europe | www.embedded.com/europe 006_ESDE.indd 6 8/02/08 12:21:55 http://cmptv.net/TearDownTV/ http://cmptv.net/TearDownTV/ http://www.eetimes.com http://www.embedded.com/europe

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Embedded Systems Design Europe - February 2008 Contents ARTEMIS and ENIAC Get Parlimentary Approval Product Teardown Videos Come On Screen Esterel and Abslnt Integrate Products Microsoft Opens Windows to Networked Embedded Applications Trango Embeds Virtualization Tool in Cavium's Multicore CPUs MindTree - ADI Develop Security DVR Platform NXP Extends Deal with ARM to Cover MCUs Automotive and Embedded to Dominate DATE 08 ZigBee Spec Gets Smart On Energy Updated Card Spec Provides for Power-On Boot The Basics of Embedded Multitasking On a PIC Cover Feature: The Art of FPGA Construction Is Symmetric Multiprocessing For You? Accelerating MATLAB Using MEX-Files ARM Provides the Microcontroller Solution Embedded World Advertising Contracts

Embedded Systems Design Europe - February 2008

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