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PC/104 Embedded Consortium Design Winners
An anonymous reader writes "The PC/104 Embedded Consortium announced the winners of its first PC/104 Design Contest, at the Embedded Systems Conference today in San Francisco. The awards recognize engineers designing innovative systems and devices based on the consortium's PC/104 and PC/104-Plus standards. Winners were announced in three categories: Commercial for industrial/medical/transportation/other; Commercial for military/aerospace/COTS; and Research Project. Read the full story at Linuxdevices.com. Lots of images!"
They don't state that that particular project utilizes linux, it simply uses the PC/104 standard for *hardware*. PC/104 is a hardware spec not a software spec.
"Top research prize went to a steer by wire system. This is already employed in race cars and ferrari's alike. How is something already in production considered research?"
I have yet to see a Ferrari or race car that employs a steer-by-wire system. TROTTLE-by-wire, yes. The only things that I can think of that use steer-by-wire systems are larger ships, most modern military aircraft, and some civilian aircraft like most (all?) Airbus models.
It's been out for years, nothing promising, it already is a great standard.
Noob.
I've heard that the origin of PLC's being called that was because they got some sort of an exception from the Union by not being called a computer. Unions have traditionally been anti-Automation, and anything that says 'computer' on it is bound to be viewed with hostility.
Maybe somebody can confirm or contradict this. I found it interesting when a friend who's done a lot of industrial control systems told me.