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news Europe invests in Java for multicore systems The Open Group is working with a consortium of European real-time technology developers, industrial manufacturers and research organizations to develop a new framework for Javabased real-time applications on modern parallel processor systems. Supported by the European Commission, the Java Environment for Parallel Real-time Development (JEOPARD) project is investing over €3.3 million on an advanced framework for real-time Java running on multicore and parallel systems. This platform-independent framework will maintain the robust reliability essential for safety and mission critical applications, while using the additional processing power available from the latest parallel platforms. Led by The Open Group (Reading, England), the JEOPARD consortium includes four universities and research institutes: University of York (England), Vienna University of Technology (Austria), FZI (Research Center for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany) and the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania); three industrial manufacturers: EADS NV (Schiphol-Rijk, Netherlands), RadioLabs (Rome, Italy) and SkySoft (Lisbon, Portugal); and two embedded systems technology suppliers: Aicas (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Sysgo (Klein-Winternheim, Germany). The strategic objective of the JEOPARD project is to provide the tools for platform-independent development of predictable systems that make use of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) multicore platforms. These tools will enhance software productivity and reusability by extending processor technology already established on desktop systems for the speciﬁc needs of multicore embedded systems. The project will actively contribute to standards required for the development of portable software in this domain, such as the Real-time Speciﬁcation for Java (RTSJ). In addition, the JEOPARD project will develop a platform-independent software development interface for realtime multicore systems. The interface will be based on existing technologies, including the Real-Time Speciﬁcation for Java (JSR 1 and JSR 282) and SafetyCritical Java (JSR 302). These technologies currently provide a strong foundation for the development of complex and highly reliable real-time systems, but they do not yet provide support for multicore systems. Even more challenging, some of the technologies can not address more than one processor at a time, making it impossible to develop applications that scale with the number of processors available on current and future multicore systems. “The JEOPARD consortium partners are experts in all layers of a multicore embedded system, from the processor architecture to the Java virtual machine and the C and Java API layers,” said Scott Hansen, director of European Projects at The Open Group. “We’re conﬁdent the project will solve the critical issues in each of these layers, thereby providing a powerful interface for the applications developer at the highest level.” “Embedded systems developers require a stable platform based on recognized standards if they are to invest in new applications that fully exploit multicore systems,” said Fridtjof Siebert, CTO of Aicas and technical director for the consortium. “The JEOPARD project will provide an evolutionary path that maintains the advantages of Java such as portability, interoperability, object orientated design, while enabling real-time systems developers to achieve higher performance levels and scalability with increasingly sophisticated multicore platforms.” Curtiss-Wright buys Pentland Systems Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has acquired Pentland Systems Ltd. (Livingston, Scotland), for $2.3 million. Pentland was founded in 1990 and its sales in 2008 are expected to be approximately $3.6 million. The deal should enhance Curtiss-Wright’s sensor processing product portfolio adding RF/IF signal acquisition, analog, digital I/O and synchro/resolver products for radar, software deﬁned radio and signal intelligence applications. Pentland’s products and technology will be organized under Curtiss-Wright 12 Controls Embedded Computing’s Modular Solutions group, and will be managed by Rob Hoyecki, director of the digital signal processing division. “Pentland is a leading supplier of rugged high performance analog acquisition and reconstruction products for sonar, radar, signal intelligence and software deﬁned radio applications in the aerospace and defense market,” said Tom Quinly, president of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “The addition of another incredibly talented and complemen- tary technical team ﬁts our strategy of continuing to expand our portfolio to offer the broadest and most tightly integrated rugged deployed COTS boards and subsystems available.” Hoyecki added, “Their approach, which tightly couples the analog frontend with FPGA technology is highly desired by our customers who require a deﬁned signal bandwidth to be delivered at the application level.” The acquisition strengthens Curtiss-Wright’s presence in Europe, adding to their existing video and integration business unit in Letchworth, which became part of the group in 2004 with the purchase of Primagraphics for $21million. 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