On April 1 the embedded world will converge in San Jose, California. Be sure to drop by our booth (1746) to see groundbreaking tools and innovative middleware – including the industry’s only field-proven platform for multi-core development.

In-booth Demos

MULTI-CORE

Scalable, survivable multi-core systems

Large-scale, performance-hungry systems are driving the need for the increased CPU capacity of multi-core processors. Likewise these systems are driving the need for software techniques that take advantage of multi-core performance improvements without sacrificing reliability and survivability.

This demonstration showcases a number of QNX technologies for creating scalable, survivable systems. Attendees will learn how to benefit from multi-core processors by dynamically using multiple CPU cores in software as well as how to use partitioning to protect software and add a new level of survivability.

Main technology focus:

QNX Momentics development suite
QNX Neutrino RTOS

Other products on display:

Dual core Intel Xeon Processor LV with Intel E7520 Chipset Development Kit (total of four CPUs with symmetric multiprocessing)

TOOLS

Multiple tools, a single IDE

Embedded developers need an array of tools to code, debug, and optimize their complex time-critical applications. But, to maximize productivity, those tools must run in a single, open, standards-based environment.

The QNX Momentics IDE provides such an environment. This demo showcases the many integrated tools that QNX Momentics provides for editing, debugging, system profiling, application profiling, code coverage, memory analysis, and target system management. It also explores how QNX visualization tools provide deep insight into complex, multi-core behavior. Attendees will learn first-hand how QNX Momentics simplifies the entire development cycle, from board bring-up to performance optimization.

Main technology focus:

QNX Momentics development environment

Other products on display:

Freescale MPC8641D High-performance Dual Core Processor

MULTIMEDIA

Embedding Multimedia

Building a customizable and feature-rich embedded media player is one thing; simultaneously achieving the high reliability and flexibility to quickly support new devices and content is another.

This demo highlights the powerful new QNX Multimedia Solution on three embedded platforms from Freescale, Renesas, and Texas Instruments. See the latest QNX technologies for building reliable multimedia-enabled products that support media detection and content organization, audio playback and record, DVD movie playback, and connectivity to portable media players (such as iPods). Technologies on display include Gracenote Playlist Plus - an embedded playlist generation solution. Attendees can discover for themselves how QNX architecture – flexible component-based design in particular – makes it easy to integrate new devices, applications, and content to create full-featured infotainment solutions that are both highly customized and future-proof.

Main technology focus:

QNX Multimedia Solution

Other products on display:

Freescale PPC platform
Renesas SH4 platform
Texas Instruments reference platform
Gracenote Playlist Plus

About Gracenote Playlist Plus

Playlist Plus is designed for consumer electronics devices such as car and home stereos that do not have Internet connectivity, CPU resources, or disk drive storage to support traditional disk or file recognition solutions. Ideal for any device that allows connectivity of portable MP3 players, Playlist Plus enables cataloging of contents on the device or the connected player; normalizes the artist name data for easy navigation; associates descriptive information such as genre, era, and origin with each song; and supports automatic “More Like This” playlist generation.

QNX conference presentation

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from the Eclipse CDT Project Lead – QNX Software System’s very own Doug Schaefer.

Getting the Most Out of Eclipse CDT for Embedded Development
Date: Thursday, April 5
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Room: Santa Clara 1 & 2
Format: 90-minute class

This class will show how the CDT can be easily integrated with build and debug tools that target embedded devices. You'll learn how the CDT's source navigation tools can help you quickly understand new APIs and pre-written code, and see how the CDT's powerful debug environment can help uncover bugs as they are happening. You’ll also discover the almost endless supply of tools that can be integrated into the CDT to help with all aspects of embedded development, including application and system profiling, JTAG-based debugging, and image building.