60-second interview
2008; Institution of Engineering and Technology; Volume: 3; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1750-9645
Autores Tópico(s)Power Systems and Technologies
ResumoThe Open Source ideal continues to grow core support at the heart of the applications mainstream, and recently it has been widening the inroads it's been making into the automotive sector. The in-vehicle operating system platform space has been dominated by Microsoft Auto OS, QNX's RTOS, and other proprietary solutions. Now it is being challenged by Linux-based initiatives that could bring to the car and truck the same flexibility enjoyed by home and office. Over the last three years, Linux has been stealthily establishing itself as a de facto operating system for a clutch of in-vehicle applications, most notably so-called infotainment systems that support and link audio, telemetric, and telephony functionality. Freescale Semiconductor addresses this market from the embedded systems direction: its Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) is a real-time operating system based on the Linux 2.6 kernel offering a Linux software solution. In April 2008 Freescale introduced its MPC5123 dual-core processor for embedded Linux applications that comes bundled with a developers starter kit.Then Wind River's Linux Platform for Infotainment will offer pre-integration with third-party networking and multimedia applications. Applications so far signed-up include speech-recognition and speech-to-text technologies by Nuance Communications, Bluetooth and advanced echo-cancellation and noise reduction solutions by Parrot, music management and automatic playlisting technologies by Gracenote (just bought by Sony), multimedia networking solutions by SMSC, and DVD playback by Corel's LinDVD.
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