Reliable Embedded Systems

Sensors would help surgeons determine whether tumors have been removed completely.

It has been proposed to develop special-purpose electronic noses and algorithms for processing the digitized outputs of the electronic noses for determining whether tissue exposed during neurosurgery is cancerous

Intel will ship a Pentium M-based system-on-chip (SoC) for consumer devices like networked optical players, set-top boxes, and digital TVs. The 800MHz Media Processor CE3100 ("Canmore") aims to bring YouTube and ther PC-based entertainment platforms to home entertainment systems, where today MIPS-based SoCs from Sigma, Broadcom, and others dominate.

LWN.net has published an article on a new Linux access control mechanism called the Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel (Smack). Part of he mainline kernel since version 2.6.25, Smack is simpler and less
resource-intensive than SELinux, especially for embedded developers, says the story.

About 300 supermarkets in Europe are testing intelligent self-service scales that are capable of recognizing what a customer has placed on them.

Google Trends suggests a declining interest in embedded subjects.

Embedded designers reported more late projects and bigger time pressures in 2008, although the size of project teams grew from the previous year.

I am sure they would have less late projects and less pressures if they would attend my time management workshop and my busting bugs seminar .