Black Duck Software has been tracking the available pool of known open source software available on the Internet since the company’s founding in 2002. Today the company has a comprehensive database of open source software and related metadata. According to Black Duck’s research, there are over 200,000 open source projects representing over 4.9 billion lines of code. Given the quantity of OSS projects representing just about every facet of an application, is it feasible to find OSS code to displace 10%, 25% or more of development? Black Duck states that many customers use a much higher proportion of OSS code in their projects, some up to 88%. With 4.9 billion lines of “shovel-ready code” available to developers, OSS is a stimulus resource that may well be able to help development organizations around the world increase innovation, stretch budgets and spur growth.
Design Partner Network Provides Carrier Board Design Services for ETX and COM Express Modules
Ampro Adlink Technology has announced the formation of a Design Partner Network—a group of well-known electronic engineering design services firms. The intent of the network is to ensure that Ampro Adlink’s prospects and customers have immediate access to professional and technical engineering design services, either internally with Ampro Adlink or via one of the partners, for the design and development of custom carrier boards for ETX and COM Express embedded systems solutions and applications. By combining Ampro Adlink’s embedded computing products and the design partners’ experience in providing state-ofthe-art design services for custom single board computer and carrier board products, Ampro Adlink is striving to provide its customers with an extended
array of personnel, design tools and services. The initial members of the Ampro Adlink Design Partner Network are in the table below.
policies. The fast growth in enduser markets offset the slowdown of the machinery market.” In 2005, the Chinese government announced an ambitious goal of reducing energy consumption per unit Amest Corporation Rancho Santa Margarita, CA of GDP by 20% beArira Design, Inc Sunnyvale, CA tween 2005 and 2010. Boston Design Solutions Chelmsford, MA One of the key initiaClarity Design, Inc Poway, CA tives for realizing this Concept Development, Inc. Irvine, CA goal is the Top-1000 Paragon Innovations, Inc Plano, TX Energy-Consuming Enterprises program Pinnacle Technology Group Ottawa Lake, MI started in April of 2006 Sedona International, Inc. Nashua, NH and which will continue until 2010. The government has strengthened the China’s Low-Voltage Motor implementation of this top-1000 Drive Market Shows Growth program because many compaDespite Recession nies did not reach their target in Sales of low-voltage motor 2007. Eight of the nine members drives in China were estimated of the Standing Committee of the to be worth $1.7 billion in 2008, Political Bureau visited the latest a growth of about 8.3% over 2007 energy saving and emission reaccording to the latest statistics duction expo this March in Beifrom IMS Research. The comjing. Their collective presences in pany says this growth is quite the exhibition indicate the great impressive considering the globimportance of energy-saving and al economic slowdown and the emission reduction especially in abrupt drop in exports of several the current difficult time. types of machinery during the second half of 2008. IXXAT Automation Teams The China drives market with TenAsys for Real-Time is heavily dependent upon maCAN with Windows chine builders, with sales to this The INtime software from channel representing almost two TenAsys combines deterministic, thirds of total market revenues hard real-time control with stanin 2007. Some major suppliers dard Windows operating systems started to worry about the marwithout requiring additional hardket in the first half of 2008 before ware. Real-time and non-real-time the global economic crisis started applications run in separate virtual because of the sharp decline of machines on a single computer, the demand from the textile maenabling cost-effective, reliable chinery sector, which accounted control that is easy to develop and for 25% of the total shipment in maintain. terms of units. The TenAysy Embedded Analyst Jackey Wang comCommunication Interface driver mented: “The slowdown or even (ECI) will be made available initialdecline of some machinery sectors ly for the iPC-I XC16/PCI interface did decelerate the growth of sales board, an intelligent CAN interface to machine builders significantly board from IXXAT designed for in the second half of 2008. Howevindustrial PC applications. INtime er, the impact of the global finandrivers for other IXXAT CAN cial crisis on end-user markets was boards will follow. This will enable insignificant until now. Sales to running real-time CAN applicaend-user markets continued growtions on the same processor with a ing as a result of the governmentWindows-based human interface. guided energy-saving and emis“INtime is a natural platform sion reduction projects and related for deterministic control of time-
critical applications on a standard PC because it eliminates the need for a separate real-time platform in addition to the Windows-based human interface,” said Karl Judex, IXXAT VP of sales & marketing. “Offering INtime drivers for our CAN boards is a logical choice for us.” “Partnering with IXXAT is a perfect fit for TenAsys,” said Kim Hartman, TenAsys VP of sales & marketing. “Our expanding customer base in the automotive test and measurement market will benefit greatly from the direct support for CAN by our INtime RTOS for Windows.”
PICMG Releases New COM Express Design Guide
Version 1.0 of the COM Express Design Guide for developers of COM Express modules has been released by the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG). The Design Guide was revised by the PICMG over the last 18 months with the active collaboration of 15 companies. In addition to draft editor congatec, the following companies were involved: Adlink, Continuous Computing, Diversified Technology, Foxconn, GE Fanuc, Intel Corp., Kontron AG, MSC Vertriebs GmbH, NMS Communications, Nokia Siemens Networks, RadiSys, Trenton Technology, Tyco Electronics and VIA. The COM Express Design Guide provides information on how to design custom system carrier boards for COM Express modules. The vendor-independent, 160-page Design Guide includes a multitude of circuit examples that illustrate the correct implementation of all COM Express interfaces. Carrier boards designed on the basis of this guide enable greater interchangeability between COM Express modules from different vendors. The COM Express Design Guide is available for free download from the PICMG Web site at http://www.picmg.org/pdf/PICMG_COMDG_100.pdf.
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