| WHAT'S NEW−ARCHIVE 2001/December |
TRONSHOW 2002 Held |
| TRONSHOW 2002 and TEPS 2002 were held in Laforet Museum Roppongi in Roppongi, Tokyo, from December 13 through 15. "T-Engine," a new standard platform for developing application products such as portable information devices and information appliances, was announced, and it drew great interest. In addition, the Enableware symposium "TEPS 2002," which considers support for disabled people using computers, was held at the same time, and there was an important exchange of opinions about the disabled and cell-phones. |
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About the Importation of a μITRON Memory Protect Mechanism |
| In the Next Generation Real-Time Infrastructure Group of the TRON Association, we
newly established a μITRON-Specification OS Memory Protect Function Sub Working
Group. In this sub working group, we are pushing forward with such things as the
requirements for a memory protect function, an investigation of the state of MMU
implementation in various types of MPUs, and drawing up a standard memory protect
function specification for the ITRON-specification OS. We are planning to settle
on the specification within the current fiscal year. The TRON Association has newly established an executive committee, and we are in the process of developing a μITRON-specification OS based on this specification. Furthermore, this work is work that has been commissioned by the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. |
Introducing the Oki Electric Bluetooth Total Solution |
| Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd, has begun marketing a Bluetooth total solution in
which they have loaded μITRON. This product is sold in four parts: an RF transceiver
LSI, a baseband controller LSI, software, and a development kit. The LSIs are the
transceiver LSI ML7050LA and the baseband controller LSI ML70511LA, which are the
first LSIs from a domestic LSI vendor to obtain Bluetooth (Ver. 1.1) certification.
The core CPU is loaded with the "ARM7TDMITM," which supports interfaces
for various applications via an extensible composition. In addition, through the
parallel use of Oki's Bluetooth protocol stack software, it is possible to easily
realize data and voice communications with other Bluetooth systems. The ML7050LA that is being sold as an LSI uses CMOS technology and cuts down the number of external parts and various types of RF-specific tuning parts, thus enabling easy system design and making it possible to greatly reduce the development TAT. The ML70511LA is a baseband controller CMOS LSI for use in Bluetooth systems. In addition, Oki is also marketing a Bluetooth System Development Kit (BT-SDK). For further details: http://www.okisemi.com/public/docs/BlueToothChipset.html http://www.okisemi.com/public/docs/PR-ML70511LA.html |
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