Open Source Engineering

NXP Semiconductors claims to be the first automotive semiconductor supplier to license Broadcom's BroadR-Reach Ethernet technology for in-vehicle networking.

Here's a recent article that may be of interest: an interview with Gabriel Lezmi, v-p European sales at Synopsys, which touches on open source software.

The RaspberryPi Foundation, which aims to put computers in front of children for £15, has taken delivery of 50 engineering prototypes, and intends to get the final version to customers by the end of the year, writes Steve Bush.

Wind River has announced the immediate availability of Wind River Linux 4, Update Pack 2 - with graphics support to the forefront.

Here's a story from our sister site Flight Global about a new open software platform from Green Hills Software's Integrity Security Services. It's aimed at enabling developers to more easily program applications for the control and management of autonomous vehicles.

Here's an Open Source-related story from our new Android blog, Eyes on Android - Android could be badly bitten by GPL licensing

The Redmond giant has has announced the official launch of Gadgeteer, a set of electronic parts designed to be plugged together to build prototypes or working electronic devices. Remote controlled cars and cameras are given as possible examples.

An interesting Ubuntu-related post on our new low-power design blog, written by Chris Edwards - Linux power: what does changing a register do if the BIOS tells you it isn't there?

Mentor Graphics has introduced a range of semiconductor design tools or integrated development environment (IDE) based on the open-source GNU toolchain, writes Richard Wilson.

Imperas - a virtualised software specialist, and a member of the ARM Connected Community - has released its first models of the Cortex-A family of ARM processor cores.