1. RTECC Boston.
- Author
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Nisley, Ed
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CONFERENCES & conventions , *COMPUTER industry , *EXHIBITIONS , *EMBEDDED computer systems - Abstract
This article highlights the Real-time and Embedded Computing Conference which was held in the Sheraton Framingham in Massachusetts in 2004. The exhibits were in a ballroom on the main level, with lectures and presentations in what would be the dungeons if the architects had truly gotten into the spirit of the thing. During the show, Intel presented a talk on how to get from PCI and PCI-X to PCIExpress, the next-generation, in-the-box bus. A little background is in order to understand how we got into the mess and why it is time for something completely different. Montavista Software described some New Developments in Embedded Linux, including the observations that Linux has grown up, the homebrew operating system is dead, and per-unit royalties are history. In their view, a Linux system with 8 MB of RAM and 8 MB of Flash is doable, but will not notice anything wrong with slowly changing inputs. The between-sessions and over-lunch chatter revealed another issue: the visceral dislike of Microsoft and its offerings in any and all contexts. Spectrum Signal Processing gave a talk that was actually interesting despite its title. Ready? Radio Waveforms and the Software Communications Architecture: Instantiating Software Defined Radio Waveform Applications Across Heterogeneous Processing Elements.
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- 2004