Simulation and Design: November 2004 Archives
ACM transaction on embedded computing have a call for papers on the following.
SoC design complexity threatens continuation of current design schemes. In fact, designing SoC requires concurrent design of complex embedded software and a sophisticated hardware platform that may include several heterogeneous CPU subsystems. The lack of early coordination between different teams belonging to different cultures causes delay and cost overheads that are no more acceptable for the design of embedded systems. Programming models have been used to coordinate software and hardware communities for the design of classic computers. A programming model provides an abstraction of HW-SW interfaces and allows concurrent design of complex systems made of sophisticated software and hardware platforms. Examples include API at different abstraction levels, RTOS libraries, drivers, typically summarized as hardware dependent software. This abstraction smoothes the design flow and eases interaction between different teams belonging to different cultures, hardware, software and system architecture. This special issue addresses the application of this concept to SoC with emphasis on practical issues.
Submission date is Feb 15 2005
More details can be found here
LinuxDevices.com has published proceedings from the Sixth Real-Time Linux Workshop held in Asia, at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
The papers span a broad range of topics ranging from fundamental real-time technologies, to applications, to hardware, to tools. As usual, the conference was organized by the Real-Time Linux Foundation.
Linuxdevices.com reports on an open source project that could be of benefit for my PhD research.
Scratchboxis an open source project to simplify cross-platform software compilation. They have recently made several advances that may interest embedded device developers. The project is helping Debian ARM strive for parity with Debian x86 by enabling package maintainers to build native ARM applications on fast x86 PCs, without modifying package build scripts
