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Welcome to the QNX Source, your monthly update on how QNX Software Systems can help you create reliable, scalable, and high-performance embedded systems. IN THIS ISSUE:
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QNX & Intel WEB SEMINAR: Delivering Proven, Fully Pre-Integrated OS/Protocol Solutions Join QNX and Intel for a one-hour webinar on September 21st at 1pm ET, that describes how their joint offering enables developers of industrial automation, medical and control systems to cut time-to-market and reduce risk in their designs. Discover how to implement ideal high-performance embedded applications with Intel® Embedded Components and Flash Memory and the QNX x86 Runtime Kit, which fully supports the Intel x86 platform.
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QNX Delivers Out-of-the-Box Experience for Embedded x86 Customers Thanks to the new QNX® Neutrino® x86 runtime kit, value-added resellers, independent software vendors, and system integrators can, for the first time, deploy their software on a hard realtime operating system (RTOS) without encountering complex installation issues or time-consuming licensing agreements. Designed especially for smaller-scale product deployments, the new QNX Neutrino x86 runtime kit works out of the box with a wide array of x86 hardware platforms. It is particularly well-suited for industrial automation and any other control-oriented applications based on PC-compatible ruggedized computers or single-board computers, including medical, point-of-sale, and mil/aero systems.
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Eclipse Foundation Announces CDT 3.0 The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to implementation of a universal development platform, announced mid-August, the next generation of the widely adopted Eclipse CDT platform, a platform for building C/C++ development tools. Developed under the leadership of QNX Software Systems, CDT 3.0 delivers improved scalability, performance, and extensibility to developers targeting embedded systems and Linux environments. CDT has been adopted as the C/C++ tools platform for major embedded and Linux vendors, including IBM, Intel, MontaVista, Novell SUSE, PalmSource, QNX, Tensilica, Texas Instruments, and TimeSys.
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QNX Hires Paul Hohos to Lead North American Auto Sales QNX Software Systems named Paul Hohos as its director of automotive sales for North America in mid-September. Hohos brings more than 20 years of automotive industry experience to QNX and will be responsible for managing the company's sales strategy for the automotive market. Hohos joins QNX from Wipro Technologies, where he was responsible for the company's North American automotive business, including establishing outsourcing models for the Embedded and Product Engineering Division and managing the sales cycle. Earlier in his career, Hohos spent more than a decade at Ford Motor Company in design engineering and product lifecycle management.
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SPOTLIGHT: MEN Mikro Elektronik MEN Mikro Elektronik develops and produces failsafe computers qualified for extreme environmental conditions in industrial embedded applications - such as control, measuring, test or simulation computers in transportation, automotive industry, mechanical engineering and aerospace technology, medical industry, military engineering and telecommunications. MEN offers rugged Single-Board Computers based on Pentium and PowerPC processors in 3U/6U VMEbus, CompactPCI/PXI, PCI-104 and Computer-On-Module (ESM) formats as well as a wide range of real-world I/O and computer I/O functions based on the mezzanine card standards of M-Modules, PMC and PC-MIP. MEN provides first-hand BSP and driver support for QNX for the complete range of PowerPC-based Single-Board Computers and for most of the mezzanine I/O modules. The most recent QNX BSP has just been finished for MEN's first PowerQUICC III family comprised of five different single-board computers based on 6U VME, 3U and 6U CompactPCI and System-On-Module (ESM™) platforms.
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QNX RapidIO Seminar, Sep 15, Houston, Texas RapidIO is a reliable high-speed interconnect technology ideally suited for networking applications. It provides the hardware infrastructure that enables development of distributed systems and offers a level of reliability, interoperability and traffic management not available in competing implementations. Join QNX and Freescale for this seminar to learn:
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Freescale Technology Forum (Sponsor/Exhibitor)
The Freescale Technology Forum, a combination of the Smart Networks Developer Forum and the Embedded Connectivity Summit, will offer technical education, hands-on training, a variety of educational sessions and technology demonstrations, fresh perspectives and solutions provided by Freescale and their partners. If you design for automotive, consumer electronics, industrial control, motor control, networking or wireless applications, you won't want to miss this event!
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Chips and Tools, Oct 13, Germany QNX Software Systems will be exhibiting and speaking at the Chips & Tools conference. This is the european event focusing on microcontrollers and microprocessors, development tools and operating systems. It is a forum for manufacturers and distributors to meet and communicate with the users of chips, tools and services. Peter Spaeth, Regional Sales Manager at QNX Software Systems, will be giving a talk on "Design and Analysis of Safe Embedded Systems" (Entwurf und Analyse sicherer embedded Systeme). Embedded Applikationen auf 32 bit Controllern vereinen zunehmend typische embedded Control Funktionalitäten mit Aufgaben der Kommunikation oder sogar des Bedieninterfaces. Dieses Szenario führt zu komplexen 32 bit Gesamtsystemen. Jedes embedded System hat einige für die sichere Funktion des Systems grundlegende Prozesse. Diese gilt es designtechnisch, besonders aber auch zur Laufzeit sicher zu beherrschen. Das kann durch Strukturierung und Kapselung von kritischen Prozessen und Treibern erreicht werden. Der Vortrag zeigt auf, welche Strukturen eines Microkernel basierten Betriebssystemes man dazu nutzen kann.
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Network Systems Design Conference, Oct 18-20 San Jose, CA Network Systems Design Conference, now in its 7th year, covers a wide range of networking components and system design topics, including:
NSDC is the ideal place to learn about the most recent products and technologies from those on the cutting edge of development. Technical presentations are given by engineers and technologists and describe only the newest networking components; many being announced for the first time at the show.
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Embedded Systems Show, Oct 19-20 Birmingham, UK The Embedded Systems Show, celebrating its 11th year, continues to offer design engineers and managers the opportunity to find the latest products and meet with the technical expertise behind them. With over 2,000 industry professionals attending ESS in 2004, this year's event should not be missed! Stop by booth 730, where you can find out more about QNX Software Systems. QNX offers the world's most advanced OS and tools for the embedded systems market. Our people, products and services are focused on a singular goal: enabling our customer's success through innovation. And not only does QNX help its customers stand apart from their competition, but QNX-based products are quicker to develop, perform better in the field and last longer in the market than those based on competing software platforms.
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QNX Japan Users Group Conference, Oct 27 Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan Join us at the QNX Japan Users Group Conference and learn more about QNX technology to inspire innovation in your work environment. Through a mini-tradeshow setting, as well as executive and customer presentations, discover how to build and deliver better products using QNX. This one-day event will be a forum for information exchange and an excellent opportunity to network with QNX users, partners, distributors and in the industrial automation, networking and automotive sectors.
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Chips and Tools - UK November 1 and 8 QNX Software Systems will be exhibiting and speaking at the Chips & Tools conference. This is the European event focusing on microcontrollers and microprocessors, development tools and operating systems. It is a forum for manufacturers and distributors to meet and communicate with the users of chips, tools and services. Garry Bleasdale, Field Applications Engineer at QNX Software Systems will be giving a talk on "Exactly When Do you Need Realtime?" This session explores where and why real time is required, various definitions of real time, and the effect of the operating system on a real-time design. We will also discuss design methods and programming-language features appropriate for real time; identify operating-system requirements for real time (e.g. pre-emptible kernel, priority inheritance, nested interrupts); and explore the tradeoffs between using a GPOS or an RTOS. Practical issues, such as setting appropriate task priorities and avoiding high-frequency interrupts, will also be covered.
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Embedded Technology 2005, Nov 16-18 Japan QNX Software Systems will be exhibiting at Embedded Technology 2005. This event is the largest trade show and conference in Asia for embedded system designers and managers. It introduces advanced technologies and solutions for emerging embedded applications, including digital consumer electronics, automotive, wireless/ubiquitous computing and factory automation.
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Real-Time & Embedded Computing Conferences The Real-Time & Embedded Computing Conferences (RTECC) are unique, one-day events showcasing the newest products and latest information from industry leaders. RTECC features open-door technical sessions in conjunction with tabletop exhibits. QNX Software Systems will be participating in the following September, October and November events:
September 15, 2005 in Toronto, ON
September 20, 2005 in Montreal, QC
September 20, 2005 in Gothenburg, Sweden
September 22, 2005 in Ottawa, ON
September 22, 2005 in Helsinki, Finland
October 11, 2005 in Long Beach, CA
October 13, 2005 in San Diego, CA
October 20, 2005 in Pittsburg, PA
October 25, 2005 in Morristown, NJ
October 27, 2005 in Washington, DC
November 15, 2005 in Atlanta, GA
November 17, 2005 in Raleigh/Durham, NC
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