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commentary Editor Colin Holland Tel +44 (0) 208 319 1324 email: cholland@cmp.com Editorial address: PO Box 32444, London SE18 3ZP Advertising Production Manager Lydia Gijsegom & Maggie Fleerackers Tel +32 (0) 2 740 00 50 email: production@eetimes.be Circulation Luc Desimpel Tel +32 (0) 2 740 0055 email: luc.desimpel@eetimes.be Art Manager Jean-Paul Speliers Tel +32 (0)2 740 0052 email: jean-paul.speliers@eetimes.be Finance Ricardo Pinto Ferreira Tel +32 (0)2 740 0051 email: ricardo.pintoferreira@eetimes.be Advertisement contacts see page 43 Editorial Director Jean-Pierre Joosting Tel +32 (0)2 740 0056 email: jean-pierre.joosting@eetimes.be Publisher Andre Rousselot Tel +32 (0)2 740 0053 email: aroussel@cmp.com European Business Press a CMP Company 144 Avenue Eugène Plasky 1030 Brussells - Belgium Tel: +32 (0)2 740 00 50 Fax: +32 (0)2 740 00 59 Email: andre.rousselot@eetimes.be www.embedded.com/europe VAT Registration: BE 461.357.437 RPM: Brussels Company Number: 0461357437 Electronics Group Paul Miller President, Electronics Group CMP Technolgy Steve Weitzner President and Chief Executive Ofﬁcer Adam Marder Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Ofﬁcer Tony Uphoff President, CMP Business Technology Group Roberta Faletra President, CMP Channel Paul Miller President, CMP Electronics Group Philip Chapnick President, CMP Game, Dobb’s, ICMI Group Ann Marie Miller Corporate Senior Vice President Sales Marlieu Jolla Hall Senior Vice President, Human Resources Marie Myers Senior Vice President, Manufacturing Alexandra Raine Senior Vice President, Communications © 2007 E.B.P. SA, a CMP Company • Embedded Systems Design Europe is published eight times a year. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system without the express prior written consent of the publisher. The contents of Embedded Systems Design Europe are subject to reproduction in information storage and retrieval systems. º • Embedded Systems Design Europe is available free to qualiﬁed readers and to others for an annual subscription of €150. Refunds on cancelled subscriptions will only be provided at the Publisher’s discretion. Subscription queries tel: +32 2 740 00 50 • Printed by Perka. Linux aims to keep up pressure L inux certainly seems to be a ﬂavor of this month, as it has been in a number of times before. As we report on page 6, a recent survey by market research group Venture Development Corporation (VDC) sees Embedded system manufacturers are increasingly committing to Linux as the operating system of choice. While Linux has found its way into a number of embedded sectors, one of the key opportunities for the open source operating systems over the next several years according to VDC will be in the mobile phone market, where it is quickly becoming a leading application operating system, and manufacturers and telecom operators are rallying to drive more comprehensive, industry-speciﬁc Linux-based standards. “At the root of most of the challenges faced by commercial suppliers is the question of how to bring signiﬁcant additional value to an operating system that is freely available, continually improving, increasingly supported by embedded system/component suppliers, and in demand from companies interested in decreasing their overall development costs and/or bill of materials,” says VDC. And the encouraging vibes from the Linux community are reinforced by that fact that MontaVista CEO, Tom Kelly has been scouring Europe for acquisitions to boost its presence here – see page 9. One of the biggest industry moves in recent weeks has been Emerson’s plan to buy the Motorola’s Communications Computing group – see page 8. With this deal, Emerson is betting big that a new set of standards in the embedded and high-availability computing markets – ATCA, MicroTCA and AMC, collectively known as xTCA – will grow rapidly and proﬁtably. As a recent article in our sister publication EE Times Europe detailed (see www.eetimes.eu/202400805), the total AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA merchant market should improve from $292.7 million in 2006 to $978.7 million in 2008 and to $3,679 million in 2011. So it is a market worth going after. As VDC says, “Combined, Artesyn and MECC bring Emerson Network Power to an irrefutable position of prominence in the embedded computing business overall, and speciﬁcally in the emerging market for xTCA solutions. While a big deal in its own right, this is just the latest in a number of consolidations in the merchant embedded board market with the most recent the Radisys acquisition of Intel’s PCI and Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture board business. Are there more acquisitions or mergers to come or is the supply of possible targets at its end? Just when you think that the market is stabilizing another deal comes along. Colin Holland is editor of Embedded Systems Design Europe. He can be contacted at cholland@cmp. com. www.embedded.com/europe | embedded systems design europe | OCTOBER 2007 5 005_ESDE.indd 5 12/10/07 13:20:20 http://www.eetimes.eu/202400805 http://www.embedded.com/europe http://www.embedded.com/europe

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Embedded Systems Design Europe - October 2007 Contents Linux Set to Dominate Torvalds Updates Linux Kernel ARM Establishes Smart Card Foundry Program Emerson Buys Motorola's Embedded Comms Group LynuxWroks and TTTech to Cooperate on Avionics MontaVista CEO Looks for Acquisitions in Europe Ready: Multiprocessing Technology Provides Opportunity Automotive to Drive MCU Market New Supporters Join COM Express Group Analyst Weighs TI Versus Xilinx Versus PicoChip Cover Feature: Embedded Systems Security Has Moved to the Forefront Trace Exposes the Toughest Real-Time Bugs Employ a Secure Flavor of Linux Use an MCU's Low-Power Modes in Foreground/Background Systems Transporting Video Over Wireless Networks New Products Advertising Contacts

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