EDN

Linux is available for Altera’s Nios II embedded processor

Getting Linux support on an FPGA is important; how you get it and who you get it from is really important. So I was excited to hear that the folks at Altera Corporation and Wind River have announced ...
Design-Reuse

Xilinx Delivers New Embedded Development Kit for Building Low-Cost Spartan FPGA-Based MicroBlaze Processor Systems With Linux OS

Kit provides everything needed for kick starting development including FPGA platform, cables, hardware/software tools, reference designs and Linux Board Support Package SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Feb. 25, ...
Electronic Design

Linux Development Platform Eases FPGA Design

For the first time, developers of FPGA systems using the popular Xilinx products can build and deploy their systems on a Linux platform, thanks to the Linux Professional Edition from MontaVista ...
Linux Journal

Linux at the Embedded Systems Conference

In my writings about past embedded systems conferences, I've characterized the impact of Linux on the embedded market as a “disruptive technology” that was rewriting the rules of the game. Not any ...
Linux Journal

In Search of the Embedded Linux “Killer App”

Ask a sampling of embedded Linux vendors what they think the most likely embedded Linux “killer apps” are, and you'll probably end up with a list similar to this: Telecommunications infrastructure ...
EDN

New PMC Module Uses Economical Spartan-6 FPGA to Reduce Cost of Complex Embedded Computing Tasks

“The Spartan-6 FPGA is designed for cost-sensitive applications, but with abundant logic resources and high-speed DSP, it is more than capable for many mil-aero and industrial control functions,” ...