WHAT'S NEW－March

WHAT'S NEW－ARCHIVE 2000/March

ITRON Project Publicity Activities at ESC Spring

US Software Corporation, a member of the ITRON Committee, distributed ITRON project materials at the Embedded Systems Conference Spring (ESC Spring), which was held in Chicago, Illinois, from February 28 through March 2. In addition, on March 1 at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place near the conference site, a committee meeting was held to make preparations for the establishment of a North American chapter of the ITRON Committee. U.S. Software Corporation's overseas publicity activities were its second following those at Embedded System 2000, which was held in Nuremburg, Germany, from February 16 through 18.

http://www.ussw.com/

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TRON EnableWare Study Group Holds Regular Meeting

In the TRON Project, research is moving forward on functions to support the disabled. These are referred to as EnableWare functions. As a part of this research, several regular meetings of the TRON EnableWare Study Group are held annually. Under the theme of "Autism and the Role of Information Networks," the 13th Regular Meeting of the TRON EnableWare Study Group was held on March 11 at Gate City Ohsaki, which is located in the southern part of Tokyo next to JR Osaki Station. At the meeting, reports were given on cyber conferencing and network utilization by doctors and instructors from schools for the handicapped, who were invited to speak, and then over 100 attendees enthusiastically held a discussion.
Meeting photo

Ultra Small ITRON-Specification Control Computer Series

Japan Mini Computer System Co. has begun marketing the MINICOM-FD2 Series of ultra small, highly functional computers that are compatible with the Internet and Ethernet (10Base-T). MINICOM-FD2 Series computers are based on Hitachi MPUs (SH3, SH4, H8), and they comes loaded with a ｵITRON3.0-specification RTOS. They can be used for constructing stand alone distributed processing systems, and they can also be used to develop Internet/Ethernet-compatible devices by embedding them in various types of equipment.

http://www.minicom.co.jp/

MINICOM-FD2 Series