- Software Engineering Institute
- The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded research and development center based in Carnegie Mellon University. It is best known for its work on the Capability Maturity Model, used to measure the software development process.
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/
- Google
- Google! uses a complicated mathematical analysis, calculated on more than a billion hyperlinks on the web, to return high-quality search results so you don't have to sift through junk. This analysis allows Google! to estimate the quality, or importance, of every web page it returns.
http://www.google.com/
- IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering
- Software is everywhere, doing wonderful and critical things to help us manage and improve our lives. The Technical Council on Software Engineering taps into the myriad ways that software is designed, developed, managed, and maintained. TCSE has two overriding aims: to contribute to its members' professional expertise, and to help advance software engineering research and practice.
http://www.tcse.org/
- Mocana NanoUpdate Delivers Secure Firmware Updates to Remote Devices
- Mocana has announced NanoUpdate, a secure firmware update solution specifically designed for device platforms. With Mocana NanoUpdate, manufacturers of any connected device - from pacemakers to printers to DVRs - can automatically issue digitally-signed firmware updates to devices in the field. With NanoUpdate, Mocanas customers can ensure the integrity of their software updates and, in turn, be assured that the device will operate...
http://www.mocana.com/press2008-06-02.html
- Ask.com
- Formerly Ask Jeeves, this engine boasts an 'ExpertRank algorithm' that provides relevant search results by identifying the most authoritative sites on the Web. With Ask search technology, it's not just about who's biggest: it's about who's best. Their ExpertRank algorithm goes beyond mere link popularity (which ranks pages based on the sheer volume of links pointing to a particular page) to determine popularity among pages considered to be...
http://www.ask.com/
- Yahoo's WWW Search Page
- Yahoo's page linking to all known WWW search sites.
http://dir.yahoo.com
- Live.com - MSN or Microsoft Search
- Microsoft's 'answer' to google - a new, clean, user-friendly Google-like search engine. Remember Netscape? Lots of money and effort behind this new effort at improving search.
http://www.live.com/
- Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library
- Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) is the premier UK gateway to engineering resources on the Internet. The main EEVL Database contains details of over 2,500 high quality engineering web sites. The Database records contain a description, assessment and live link to each web site. In addition, EEVL has several other useful services.
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
- Global Spec
- A comprehensive parts finding service offering free access to their database of products, vendors, and specifications. Their parametric search insures you'll find exactly what you're looking for. Once you find one or more vendors you can request information from all of them at once by filling out a form.
http://www.globalspec.com/
- Yahoo
- Yahoo began as 'Yet Another Hierarchically Ordered Order' = Yahoo. It soon became a search engine, a huge portal (especially for news and investments) and a category index. Today it has huge potential to be the No. 2 competitor to Google, especially now that its merger with Microsoft went sour.
http://www.yahoo.com/
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!