I am glad to discover another blog dealing with embedded systems. Go see Ron Fredericks Embedded Components blog. He has an interesting entry on Community Development for Embedded Devices.  I wonder if the community is simply too fragmented with today’s plethora of embedded devices.
Loosing a bit of high-tech history in Silicon Valley…Brian Fuller writes about loosing the former Shockley Labs headquarters to a Grocery Store. Yes, the transistor Shockley…

EETimes has a bunch of good content this week…

A little blurb about the Toyota Prius Teardown that occured at Embedded Systems Conference. The full details will be in the May 14 issue of Under The Hood.

Multicore is all the rage these days…An article by Dylan McGrath about the use of multicore chips in embedded designs. Another article by Richard Goering about RTOS and tool support for multicore chips.
Did you know, there is an Ada 2005 optimized for real-time embedded apps?  Ada is used in an estimated  1.6% of embedded designs.

A fascinating article about “Whole Skin Locomotion” robots…think of a giant amoeba robot. Not you’re father’s R2D2…

Richard Goering writes about RTOS Security…how can you resist an opening like this: “Why would a manufacturer of kitchen ovens choose a RTOS first deployed in the flight-navigations system of a nuclear bomber?”

The Teutuls of Orange County Choppers fame have built a chopper for Intel, incorporating a mobile computer.  There is a great print ad in EE Times with Sr, Jr & Mikey but I can’t find it online.