SAN FRANCISO, ElectronicaUSA & Embedded Systems Conference, Booth 2626, March 31, 2004 - Aiming to increase the adoption of IEEE-1394/FireWire® in aerospace, defense, consumer electronics, automotive, transport, and medical markets, Mindready Solutions is offering a free 1394 evaluation stack to encourage device makers to integrate this high-performance serial bus in their products. Stack supports QNX Momentics development suite.Evaluating a software package is a mandatory step when selecting the best solution for an embedded system, especially when new technologies are involved.

As a followup to our earlier post, overall Best of Show winner at the 2004 Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) and six category winners were announced today.Wind River was named the overall Best of Show winner at the 2004 Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) for its full-scale replica of the VxWorks-based Mars Rover. Category winners were also announced for six device categories.

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE (SAN FRANCISCO), March 30, 2004 - QNX Software Systems announced today it will introduce native support for two new networking features, expanding the company's offerings to one of the most comprehensive selections of pre-integrated protocols in the embedded market.In addition to existing support for protocols such as IPv4, IPv6, and the security protocol IPSec, the QNX® Momentics® development suite v6.3 will provide support for advanced networking features such as SCTP (stream control transmission protocol) and IP Filtering with Network Address Translation (NAT)

In March last year, Ottawa-based real-time, embedded microkernel operating system technology provider QNX Software System Ltd granted Singapore-based i-Logics Embedded Pte Ltd the rights to offer QNX-certified training across South-East Asia.The Singaporean company plans to start offering QNX courses locally this month, from its premises in Kuala Lumpur's Megan Phileo Promenade.

TORONTO, Ontario, March 29, 2004 - NuDesign Team Inc., a premiere provider of Visual SNMP/HTTP management software development tools, and QNX Software Systems, a leading provider of realtime operating system (RTOS) technology, have formed an alliance to provide NuDesign's highly automated agent code generation technology for users of the QNX® Neutrino® RTOS. NuDesign's SNMP agent development tools for the QNX Neutrino RTOS allow developers to quickly create SNMP/HTTP agents for development and prototyping purposes.

TRANSICIEL and QNX will jointly pursue opportunities in the aerospace, defence, and automotive industries. The two companies will use their complementary expertise to provide value-added services and technology to embedded system developers in France.TRANSICIEL Technologies, a specialist in high-technology consulting, has been named as a 'Charter Distributor' for QNX Software Systems, a leading provider of realtime operating systems, development tools, and services. This new distribution agreement strengthens and extends a 10-year relationship between Transiciel and QNX.

Vladimir Timonin just published the OpenSSL 0.9.7d patches for QNX 6 and QNX 4.

ed1k just announced that he had ported SETIRQ, a utility originally written for DOS, to QNX 6 (x86 only). It is a command line utility. "setirq list" will show you the list of devices which uses interrupts. "setirq set link,irq" will assign given irq to devices with given link. All information about link numbers and possible IRQ is displayed by "setirq list" command.More detailed help as well as author's e-mail address for feedback can be obtained by "setirq -vvh". It is not a Windows "Device Manager", but it is better
than nothing.

Cautions:

Robert Krten announced the alpha release of BFE (Big File Extensions). It is a resource manager that allows you to have >2GB files under a standard QNX partition in QNX 6. Read all about it and download the executable at http://www.parse.com/samples/manpages/bfe.html. Be warned that this is a "compiles here and runs as root with the two files tested it with" kind of release.

phearbear is looking for beta testers for testing a driver for several ATMEL Based wlan cards. The driver is based of the linux atmelwlandriver project. It should support both PCI and PCCARDs, however it currently only tested on Pc-Cards. The driver has been developed and tested on a 3COM OfficeConnect card and a CNet CNWLC-811. You can find some more information about the driver on its homepage. A list of cards that uses this chip (Note that the USB variants ain't support with this driver) can be found at http://at76c503a.berlios.de/devices.html