GE and Intel form healthcare joint venture
GE and Intel have formed a 50/50 joint venture to create a healthcare company focussed on telehealth and independent living. The company will be formed by combining assets of GE Healthcare's Home Health division and Intel's Digital Health Group, and will be owned equally by GE and Intel.

VPX market looks healthy in Vita industry survey
Nearly three quarters of Vita members are using or plan to use VPX, VPX Redi or Open VPX according to the trade body’s latest industry survey. Vita surveyed more than 200 users of embedded computing systems from around the world.

Communications market sees growth for embedded hardware
This year’s communications market for embedded hardware platforms will be a year of small market gains following the sharp downturn of 2009, according to market watcher VDC.

Texas Instruments first to fly with Arm Eagle
Texas Instruments has become the first company to partner with Arm in the conception and definition of the next generation Arm Cortex-A series processor core (also known as Eagle) to be announced later this year. TI intends to use the processor to strengthen and extend its future Omap products.

Scientific advisor to open MAE 2010

Project searches for technologies to boost aviation security

Satellite technology patents double in five years

MSC lands Hitachi display award

Adacore and Altran Praxis reference Skein using Spark

Eurotech wins US$4.2m deals for embedded computers
Real-Time Operating Systems: Welcoming guest operating systems
David Kleidermacher looks at how system virtualisation provides embedded developers with the ultimate open platform
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Real-Time Operating Systems: Back to basics
Mats Pettersson explains some real-time operating system basics
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Industrial Control: Choosing a DAC
Mark Thoren explains how digital-to-analogue converters form the core of open loop, closed loop, and set-and-forget systems
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Industrial Control: Thermal management for the small box
Joseph Primeau explains how to select an industrial PC with IO for wide temperature applications
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Avionics test software added to data bus cards
DDC has announced Datasims avionics data bus test and analysis software support for its line of Acextreme data bus cards. The BU-67X series cards provide MIL1553 functionality, including BC, or multi-RT and concurrent monitor per channel, along with common API for test and embedded applications. With the additional software support, it becomes an all-in-one test and analysis product.
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Q Seven module expands memory options
MSC Vertriebs has expanded its portfolio of compact embedded Q Seven modules in the 70 by 70mm format based on the Intel Atom processor. For memory-demanding applications the Q7-US15W-FD module is now not only available with 512Mbyte or 1Gbyte memory, but also with an onboard 2Gbyte DDR2-533 sdram. The module with integrated 4Gbyte flash is to be complemented by a 2Gbyte flash disk version.
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Devices provide five timing functions
Linear Technology has announced the Timerblox family of simple, small, accurate and low power devices for five commonly used timing functions: voltage-controlled oscillator, low frequency oscillator, pulse width modulated oscillator, monostable pulse generator (one-shot) and delay. These parts provide a single common platform and allow the use of precise building blocks for each function.
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SBC suits graphics intensive jobs
IBase has announced the IB891, an 8.9cm single board computer based on a two-chip Intel Atom single-core N450 or dual-core D510 processor. The processors come integrated with a memory controller and an IGP graphics core, suitable for graphics intensive and multimedia applications, notably digital signage, PoS, kiosk, automation, fanless and low-noise embedded applications.
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