WHAT'S NEW－September

WHAT'S NEW－ARCHIVE 2000/September

ITRON International Meeting to Be Held in U.S.

The ITRON Committee of the TRON Association is planning to hold an "ITRON International Meeting" on September 27 during the Embedded Systems Conference, which will be held at the convention center in San Jose, California from September 25 through 28.
The TRON Association has been holding these meetings annually since 1997 in order to promote the spread of the ITRON standard in the U.S. This year's meeting will be the fourth. At the meeting, the activities of the Japanese ITRON Project and the JTRON Working Group, the μITRON4.0 Specification, and ITRON-related products will be introduced.

For further details, please go to the ITRON Web site at http://www.itron.gr.jp/
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Cho Kanji Applied to Test Manufactured System

The Preparation Committee for the TRON Association's Cho Kanji Application Committee has developed a demonstration system that enables the application of Cho Kanji to regional information systems. Once this system is verified, it will be able to contribute to solving the problem of exchanging user defined characters in information exchanges between self-governing bodies and other government entities.
This system realizes the exchange of user defined characters among the various computer companies' systems by utilizing TRON Character Code, which can handle 1.5 million characters. In the future, the TRON Association plans to establish the Cho Kanji Application Committee and push forward with the completion of the Cho Kanji application system and an investigation of the fields to which it can be applied.

For further details, please go to http://www.tron.ab.psiweb.com/.

Elmic Systems Develops "ELX-ITRON" Monitor

Elmic Systems Inc. has released "ELX-ITRON," a μITRON3.0-based monitor. The special feature of ELX-ITRON is that it has very low overhead, since it executes monitoring inside system call functions. The system calls have been incorporated into a library, and only the monitor processing necessitated by the system has been linked to the system.
In addition, it is possible to specify whether or not to check the parameters of system call functions, and when it is specified not to check, it is possible to cut the overhead and memory on the order of approximately 10 percent. Also, as extended functions, there are a mutex management function and an input/output driver management function. Furthermore, ELX-ITRON provides as standard equipment a system task that makes it possible to reference the system status while the system is in operation.

For detailed information on this product, go to http://www.elmic.co.jp/