MTE article stirs up rtos row on Linkedin Tom Barrett’s article in the April issue of Micro Technology Europe on commercial versus free real-time operating systems has stirred up a row on social networking site Linkedin. Barrett, who is president of Quadros Systems, came down heavily on the side of a commercial rtos for most applications.

Analogue ICs suffer worst year Last year was one of the worst ever for the analogue IC segment, according to market watcher Databeans. Analogue was down 7% from 2011 with revenues just shy of US$40bn; the entire semiconductor market had an average decline of 3% in 2012.

Acal invests £2m in custom services centre Acal BFI is investing £2m in changing the way it operates in the UK as it moves away from selling standard products. Most of this work has involved transforming its warehouse in Wokingham, Berkshire, to a custom services centre similar to the ones it already has in Frankfurt, Munich and Paris.

Rtos adds data distribution services support Express Logic’s ThreadX rtos now supports the Core DX data distribution service (DSS) communications middleware from Twin Oaks Computing. The DDS simplifies communications processes among different system types, easing the communications problems between the embedded mobile device and the enterprise, IT-based network application.

Xilinx certifies cores for push into avionics

Workshop tells how to exploit smartphone technology

Compa project relies on Trace 32 for debugging

Equita buys majority stake in MEN Mikro

SMSC acquisition bears fruit for Microchip

PoS terminals empower staff