Article by Terry Costlow at EETimes.com.

Philips Research to spin off internal asynchronous chip design technology hoping for wide use in low-power devices. Internally called Tangram, now renamed Handshake Technology is a set of tools, cores, design expertise Philips used for over 10 years, ...

Intel musters tiger team to stomp out the ISA bus.

By Richard Goering. A new approach to FPGA design is unfolding at the Configurable Computing Laboratory at Brigham Young University (BYU), where researchers have developed a Java-based tool, called JHDL, that has been used to design million-gate Xilin...

Fresh licensing method frees up hardware design.

Japanese consumer electronics makers are backing away from efforts to move proprietary OSs into wider use, turning instead to open source OSs, mostly Linux. [EE Times]

RTLinux doesn't try to change Linux into an RTOS, it instead provides a new RT kernel incorporating Linux as a low-priority thread, so the RTOS stays small, streamlined and keeps Linux as a base for common applications. [EE Times]