- Free Software (Open Source)
- Free Software, as used in this web site, refers to software distributed in source form which can be freely modified and redistributed, or freely modifiable and redistributable software. It does not refer to zero-cost software. This usage of the name 'Free Software' was common in the Unix world and recently introduced to the general computer community.
http://www.free-soft.org/
- Free Information and Articles from BDTI
- This archive contains numerous white papers and analyses of the DSP marketplace, published by Berkeley Design Technology, Inc. It is perhaps the best starting point to DSP available on the Internet, and highly rated. The BDTImark2000™ is a measure of a processor's execution speed on DSP-intensive algorithms. Higher BDTImark2000 scores indicate faster execution times. A white paper explaining the BDTImark2000 is available.
http://www.bdti.com/bdti_freeinfo.html
- Wi-Fi Alliance (802.11, Wi-Fi)
- Mission is to certify interoperability of Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) products and to promote Wi-Fi as the global wireless LAN standard across all market segments. With 802.11 DSSS compatibility, you can be assured of an expanding range of product and solutions as your networking needs grow.
http://www.wi-fi.org/
- IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee
- Develops Local Area Network standards and Metropolitan Area Network standards. The most widely used standards are for the Ethernet family, Token Ring, Wireless LAN, Bridging and Virtual Bridged LANs. An individual Working Group provides the focus for each area. New! IEEE 802 Standards Available for Free Download!
http://www.ieee802.org/
- RTC Magazine (USA / Canada)
- RTC magazine is available FREE to qualified engineers inthe USA / Canada ONLY interested in realtime, especially board-level issues. RTC Group also produces nationwide tabletop conferences on embedded and realtime systems. Focus is on realtime systems, particularly board-level as in VME, PCI, AdvancedTCA, CompactPCI, PC/104.
http://www.rtcmagazine.com/
- FPGA and Structured Asic Journal eLetter
- The industry's leading publication dedicated to FPGAs, Programmable Logic and Structured ASICs publishes weekly staff written and contributed feature articles as well as press releases, news stories and webcasts. Our editorial calendar gives you the information you need to keep your company in the spotlight by weighing in on current topics and gives us a heads up on your important annoucements.
http://www.fpgajournal.com/
- PICMG - PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturer's Group
- Consortium of over 600 companies who collaboratively develop specifications for open architecture computing for demanding applications. PICMG Specifications include CompactPCI for Eurocard, rackmount applications; PCI/ISA for passive backplane, standard format cards; and PICMG 3.x, the new initiative for next-generation telecom equipment. [Com Express, ATCA, AdvancedTCA, AdvancedMC, MicroTCA, 2.16]
http://www.picmg.org/
- IEEE Wireless Standards Zone
- The IEEE leads the way in developing open, leading-edge consensus standards for Wireless Local Area Networks (Wireless LANs), Wireless Personal Area Networks (Wireless PANs), and Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (Wireless MANs).
http://standards.ieee.org/wireless/
- FPGA-Guide.com
- This page offers to you the first (and i think biggest) vendor-independent FPGA-selector-guide for all known FPGA and CPLD-families of the last years. The devices are preselected by gate-complexity and year of introduction. At the first glance you can see max. usable gates, flipflops, speed, RAM, clock-nets, 5V-tolerance, I/Os and many more.
http://www.fpga-guide.com/
- O'Reilly Network - Wireless
- The O'Reilly Network is the essential portal for developers interested in open and emerging technologies, including new platforms, programming languages, and operating systems. Just like O'Reilly & Associates' books, this hub site provides in-depth technical information, clearly and consistently, for expert developers. Focus is on Wireless technology.
http://www.oreillynet.com/wireless/
Explanation: these links are provided as part of our EE glossary project, which seeks to identify the most prominent keywords in embedded systems, embedded software, realtime and rtos, dsp (digital signal processing), system-on-a-chip, microprocessors and microcontrollers, and other constituent elements for embedded systems. While we seek to keep most of the links up-to-date, the user is refered to other primary electronic-based search sites such as: cera2.com, embedded.com, or EDN Magazine. If you have any suggestions of links or definitions, please email!
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