WHAT'S NEW−ARCHIVE 2000/February

BTRON Exhibited at CES

Sennet Inc. exhibited a BTRON-specification OS it developed at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which was held in Las Vegas from January 6 to 9. In addition to ordinary computer users, the exhibit was visited by many company officials, who took notice of the BTRON-specification OS's multilingual compatibility and nimble operation. http://www.sennet.co.jp/Info/info_ces.html

ITRON Introduced at the OSEK/VDX 3rd International Workshop

Prof. Hiroaki Takada, head of the ITRON Technical Committee, introduced the ITRON subproject in a lecture at the OSEK/VDX 3rd International Workshop, which was held in the suburbs of Frankfurt, Germany, on February 2 and 3. OSEK/VDX is a project to create a standardized OS and communications protocols for automotive control systems. In addition, Prof. Takada proposed jointly standardizing debugging specifications in both projects. http://www.osek-vdx.org/workshop.html

μITRON-Compatible Software

A.I. Corporation, a Tokyo-based marketer of embedded software products, has begun providing middleware and a development environment for the μITRON-specification real-time operating system. The OS/middleware includes Java VM for embedded use, the Bluetooth protocol stack, a PC-compatible filing system, the Flash filing system, and CompactFlash/MMC drivers. The development environment includes a compiler/debugger, a real-time monitoring tool, tools to aid raising software quality, and SDL-compatible CASE tools. http://www.aicp.co.jp/