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new products Development software for multiprocessor systems Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has released Continuum Insights 2.1, an enhanced version of its suite of GUI-based software tools for developers of embedded multicomputer systems application software. Continuum Insights 2.1 is based on the Eclipse development and application framework and provides developers of complex multiprocessorbased computer systems with the information they need to accurately tune their systems. This version of Insights adds a system management tool to the event analysis tool and a system monitoring tool previously included in the software suite. In addition, it adds support for Curtiss-Wright’s CHAMP-FX2 FPGA-based DSP engine, support for dual-core processors, and support for Wind River Workbench 2.6.1 and the VxWorks 6.5 operating environment. The Insights System Management component allows software developers to work with multiprocessor systems as a single entity. The tool provides the user with the means to download and initiate program execution, including downloading VxWorks scripts to a group of processors with a single action. Users can logically subdivide their multiprocessor systems into groups of processors and work at a group level. This saves the need for developing complex homegrown scripts to accomplish similar work, while information in a complex system environment. Embedded systems normally store application programs in on-board, nonvolatile Flash memory. This can be a time-consuming and error-prone task with multiple individual executable ﬁles that must be burned into numerous ﬂash memories. Continuum Insights 2.1 simpliﬁes this task by managing the programming of all the ﬂash memory in the entire system with features to view, store, and delete ﬁles at the group or system level. Continuum Insights goes beyond the limitations of single-processor data capture, enabling system developers to make time-aligned comparisons of the effect of events occurring on multiple processors, signiﬁcantly reducing the time required to debug their systems. It captures the race conditions, or interaction between multiple processors, easing and speeding the identiﬁcation and correction of events that occur in the wrong sequence. More capability will be added in 2008 to bring powerful multiprocessor debugging features to the tool. www.curtisswright.com reducing the chance of conﬁguration errors inherent in managing a complex system manually. Continuum Insights features a multiprocessor-aware Telnet function that can easily switch focus between processors and it features the unique ability to aggregate the output from all of the processors into a single window. In addition, output from all processors can be logged to a ﬁle. This can greatly facilitate the task of monitoring status Pebble Bay produces LynxOS BSP for GE Fanuc boards Independent embedded software consultancy, Pebble Bay Consulting Ltd., has released the ﬁrst commercial realization of the LynxOS 5.0 RTOS for PowerPC, with a fully supported board support package (BSP) developed for ground to air military application for GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms. Pebble Bay worked with LynuxWorks and GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms through early releases of both hardware and RTOS. The BSP works 42 with GE Fanuc’s quad-8641D based DSP220 and DSP230 military SBCs. The foundation layer of code in the BSP supports all peripheral parts of the hardware including: four Freescale MPC8641D processors, eight banks of DDR2 SDRAM providing up to 8 Gbytes total, Tundra Serial RapidIO fabric to all nodes, eight serial ports, single XMC site with SRIO support, VME 2eSST interface, node management controller and GE Fanuc’s AXIS Advanced Multiprocessor Integrated software. “Being ﬁrst to come out with LynxOS 5.0 support for our ﬂagship products was extremely important for us – and having the necessary BSP in place was vital to us achieving that goal,” said Ian Jones, software engineering manager, multiprocessing & networking group at GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms. www.pebblebay.com JUNE – JULY 2008 | embedded systems design europe | www.embedded.com/europe http://www.curtisswright.com http://www.pebblebay.com http://www.embedded.com/europe

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Embedded Systems Design Europe - June 2008 Contents Work in Progress to Define Compact PCI Plus Power.org Demonstrates New Tools Project Supports Multi-core System Programming Altium Links Electronic to Mechanical Design PLDs Look to Cut Power Budget and Costs Project to Provide Coverage Analysis Tool Microsoft Details Windows Embedded Update Cover Feature: Leveraging Virtual Hardware Platforms for Software Allocating Memory in MATLAB-to-C Code MDD & IDEs: Making the Twain Meet in Embedded System Designs Debugging Mixed Signal Designs for Infrequent & Random Events Why Open Source is the Natural Choice for High-security Systems Bringing the Benefits of Low Power CPUs to Modular Design New Products Advertising Contacts

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