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PC/104 Embedded Consortium Design Winners

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the best-of-the-best dept.

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!"

3 of 68 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I'm not comfortable by PerlGuru · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  2. Re:Some Good Info on PC/104 by Usquebaugh · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's been out for years, nothing promising, it already is a great standard.

    Noob.

  3. Re:Maybe you are by SN74S181 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.