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<title><![CDATA[Rapid Context Switching on an FPGA Custom Processor With a Configurable Number of Registers]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=396053]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[This paper presents the xr16rcs, a custom processor for embedded system applications that is an extension of the xr16 RISC CPU. Both the xr16 and xr16rsc have been implemented on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chip. The innovation of this work lies in the design of a context switching mechanism that is implemented with a configurable number of CPU register sets. The number of application tasks is determined at compilation time and the resulting source code for programming the FPGA chip is produced automatically. For an application of n tasks, n register sets are produced, individually assigned to a specific task.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:25:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MSDN Webcast: Windows Embedded Standard Overview (Level 100)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=393599]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[The presenter of this webcast provides an overview of Windows Embedded Standard, the next generation of Windows XP Embedded. Windows Embedded Standard delivers the latest key technologies, including Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. The attendee will learn that Windows Embedded Standard enables enterprise management technologies such as Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and Windows Server Update Services, includes in-box support for the latest chipsets from Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and VIA, features an improved developer experience with an enhanced out-of-box experience, additional configuration UI, and links to online resources and is the platform for smart, connected, and service-oriented enterprise devices.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:57:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MSDN Webcast: Windows XP Professional for Embedded Systems (Level 100)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=393393]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Available through 2016, the Windows XP Professional for Embedded Systems operating system is a great solution for embedded systems including kiosks, Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), industrial controllers, and large medical devices. The attendee of this webcast will learn how to take advantage of the full power of the Windows XP Pro operating system.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:00:09 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MSDN Webcast: Windows Embedded Enterprise Kiosk and Self-Service Solutions (Level 100)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=393367]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Windows Embedded Enterprise offers a productive set of tools and technologies and an active development community to give kiosk and digital signage Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) the confidence to bring their smart, connected, service-oriented devices to market faster. The attendee of this webcast will learn more about Windows Embedded Enterprise kiosk and self-service solutions.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:32:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scaling Soft Processor Systems]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=391062]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[As FPGA-based systems including soft-processors become increasingly common they are motivated to better understand the best way to scale the performance of such systems. This paper explores the organization of processors and caches connected to a single off-chip memory channel, for workloads composed of many independent threads. In particular they design and evaluate real FPGA-based processor, multithreaded processor, and multiprocessor systems on EEMBC benchmarks-investigating different approaches to scaling caches, processors, and thread contexts to maximize throughput while minimizing area. The main finding is that while a single multithreaded processor offers improved performance over a single-threaded processor, multiprocessors composed of single-threaded processors scale better than those composed of multithreaded processors.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:17:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Forensic Data Recovery From Flash Memory]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=390958]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Current forensic tools for examination of embedded systems like mobile phones and PDA's mostly perform data extraction on a logical level and do not consider the type of storage media during data analysis. This paper suggests a low level approach for the forensic examination of flash memories and describes three low-level data acquisition methods for making full memory copies of flash memory devices. Results are presented of a file system study in which USB memory sticks from 45 different make and models were used. For different mobile phones is shown how full memory copies of their flash memories can be made and which steps are needed to translate the extracted data into a format that can be understood by common forensic media analysis tools.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:33:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Metro Health Village Improves Patient Care With Immediate "Anywhere" Information Access]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=389543]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Metro Health Village is redefining the healthcare experience. This unique village has an advanced hospital facility surrounded by a community of physician offices, specialty centers, medical suppliers, a fitness center, and more. Approximately 1,000 Wyse Technology V90L thin clients running the Windows XP Embedded operating system are spread throughout the campus, providing healthcare workers with instant, anywhere access to applications and patient data. The Windows XP Embedded environment is familiar to end users, highly secure, and supports multiple options for connectivity and peripherals. Even more important, accurate up-to-date patient information can be accessed in about 15 seconds, versus several minutes with PCs, potentially saving lives when every moment counts.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:53:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Design of the Light Weight Linux O.S on the DOM Memory]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=387847]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Many people are studying the embedded system. The embedded system becomes a small size device. The DOM memory is using in the mobile device and small size devices. This paper designs the light-weighted Linux O.S that is running onto the DOM flash memory. The embedded system with the DOM must have a light-weigthed O.S due to the memory space restriction. This paper designs a light-weigthed Linux O.S for the DOM memory. The new designed LILO boot loader boots the new designed light-weigthed Linux O.S as a normal Linux O.S. This paper experiments to compare the designed new light-weigthed Linux O.S with a Linux PC.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:14:29 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hacking Embedded Linux Based Home Appliances]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=387841]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Embedded Linux is an interesting phenomenon. With millions of devices shipped to-day, from residential gateways to cellular phones, it may be Linux's biggest success story ever. However, it gets disproportionately small amount of interest from the open source community. Part of the blame is on the companies developing embedded Linux based products, which feel uncomfortable with the idea of opensource. However, even bigger problem can be the fact that embedded systems are perceived as black boxes which are very hard to hack, contrary to an "Open" PC. This paper tries to break this stigma by showing Linux developers how to hack various Linux based devices that they might already have at home.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:11:20 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Low Disturbance Embedded System Tracing With Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=387773]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Embedded systems in applications that include GPS, airplanes, life support devices, video decoders and many others are often required to meet hard and soft real-time constraints. Various proprietary operating systems, like VxWorks and µC/OS-II, aim primarily at allowing programs to have an higher bound on their execution time. They can be deployed in embedded applications where response time must absolutely be met. This paper presents how the kernel tracer "Linux Trace Toolkit next generation" (LTTng)2 can be used to pinpoint time constraints problems in the Linux kernel and validate time constraints by showing the absence of failure in a sample.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:35:44 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rabbit Races Across Wi-Fi Ethernet Bridge]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=385250]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[This paper talks about Wi-Fi enabled embedded application. Wi-Fi, a popular name for 802.11b, is one of the wireless schemes available in the 802.11 suite. 802.11b describes the media access and link layer control for a 2.4 GHz implementation which can communicate at a top bit-rate of 11 Msps. There are some proprietary extensions to 22 Msps. Other standards describe a faster implementation (54 Msps) in the 2.4 GHz (802.11g) and a 54 Msps implementation in the 5.6 GHz band. Currently, Wi-Fi (802.11b) is the most common implementation. The 802.11 standard also describes how these devices access each other. In the simplest scheme, called the ad-hoc, each device sets a channel number and a code. Once they match, they can talk with each other.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:48:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Towards Security and QoS Optimization in Real-Time Embedded Systems]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=385237]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[A number of Real-Time Embedded Systems (RTESs) are used to manage critical infrastructure such as electric grids or C4I systems. In these systems, it is essential to meet deadlines, for example, to avoid a power outage or loss of a life. The importance of security support is also increasing, because more RTESs are being networked. To securely transmit sensitive data, e.g., a battle field status, across the network, RTESs need to protect the data via cryptographic techniques. However, security support may cause deadline misses or unacceptable QoS degradation. As an initial effort to address this problem, they formulate the security support in RTESs as a QoS optimization problem.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:33:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dynamic Security and QoS Adaptation in Real-Time Embedded Systems]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=377635]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[A number of Real-Time Embedded Systems (RTESs) are used to manage critical infrastructure such as electric grids or C4I systems. In these systems, it is essential to meet deadlines, for example, to avoid a power outage or loss of a life. The importance of security support is also in-creasing, because more RTESs are being networked. To securely transmit sensitive data, e.g., a battle field status, across the network, RTESs need to protect the data via cryptographic techniques. However, security support may cause deadline misses or unacceptable QoS degradation. As an initial effort to address this problem, the security support in RTESs is formulated as a QoS optimization problem.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:44:18 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Modularizing Variability and Scalability Concerns in Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems With Modeling Tools and Component Middleware]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=375402]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Developing real-time software for large-scale Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems is hard due to variabilities that arise from integration with various subsystems based on different programming languages and hardware, OS, middleware platforms, fine tuning the system to satisfy a range of customer requirements, such as various Quality-of-Service (QoS) properties, and changing functional and QoS properties of the system based on available system resources. This paper describes the experience of applying Model-Driven Development (MDD) tools and QoS-enabled component middleware technologies to address domain- and middleware-specific variability challenges in an inventory tracking system, which manages the storage and flow of items in warehouses.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:39:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[On-Time and Scalable Intrusion Detection in Embedded Systems]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=361223]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Embedded systems are becoming ubiquitous and are increasingly interconnected or networked, making them more vulnerable to security attacks. A large class of these systems such as SCADA and PCS has real-time and safety constraints. Therefore, in addition to satisfying these requirements, achieving system security emerges as a critical challenge to ensure that users can trust these embedded systems to perform correct operations. One objective in a secure system is to identify attacks by detecting anomalous system behaviors. This paper describes the challenges in the design and implementation of such intrusion detection capability.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:20:32 -0700</pubDate>
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