Since the web is crying out for yet another news aggregation blog, I feel compelled to fill the void. Actually, in keeping with the original intent of this blog (oh, where have we gone wrong? The siren songs of .NET and software design at large have struck) we will limit the content of these posts to things closely related to embedded systems. Expect a large dose of hardware related news and some embedded stuff.

Due to manpower issue and lack of readily re-syndicated sources (meaning, I’ll be reading dead trees), I expect this to be a weekly issue.

Rick Merritt has a nice piece in EE Times about the looming shortage of programmers. This is a big concern to address the next computing challenge: parallelism in the multi-core era.

Rick also has a side article about TechFest 07.  Microsoft Research’s Showcase of project.  Displays made of MEMS instead of LCDs is what got my attention.

Jeff Bier points out that if you’re going to market a new embedded processor,  provide good tools and reference designs.  Amen to that!