Winning in the Development Support category, the Online Linux Factory is a LinuxLink offering that provides a web-based interface to "quickly specify, assemble and build a custom embedded Linux platform for a select processor and associated target," says Timesys. Developers can select kernel versions and configurations, device drivers, toolchains, glibc/uClibc packages, and platform output options. The build-to-order site offers automated feedback and recommendations provided by Timesys engineers, as well as popularity ratings for each component and application selection. The Online Linux Factory is available to LinuxLink subscribers for select processors, including the Freescale i.MX27.
Winners of the FTF Awards, held this week during the FTF show in Orlando, Florida, were decided by an independent panel of publishers and analysts, says Freescale. The other Best in Show winner, San Juan Software, won in the Innovative Platforms category for its ZigBee control platform incorporating San Jan's PopNet proprietary wireless networking protocol. The platform allows control of devices on three different IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee) protocols via an Apple iTouch.
Nuvation won the People's Choice Award for its Flexis AC Face-Off demonstration (pictured at top), which incorporated a robot using Freescale's 32-bit ColdFire processor and Flexis AC microcontrollers. The robot played air hockey against human opponents using machine vision assistance from overhead cameras. Several Nuvation cameras do run embedded Linux, though the company could not confirm by press time that Linux was used in the demo.
Nuvation's robot hockey demo
Stated Greg Quiggle, VP of Marketing for Timesys, "The Online Factory provides embedded developers with a very innovative build-to-order framework to quickly customize a Linux platform by leveraging a broad set of Linux components available within the open source community."
More information on the FTF Awards may be found here.
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