Amin Aun's links:

• http://www.sltf.com/articles/artindes.htm
  Website that discusses issues involving hardware, software and business aspects of embedded system design; articles adapted from column in "Personal Engineering & Instrumentation News", written by Scott Rosenthal.
• http://www.embeddeddesign.com/
  Company website that specializes in embedded ("real-time") system software architectue, design, implementation and maintance of these sytems; located in Silicon Valley; website not very appealing.
• http://www.embedded-systems.ltd.uk/
  Company website that specializes in design and manufacture of embedded systems for monitoring, instrumentation, and industrial control; some of the projects they have done for their customers are laser control systems, motorway road sign controllers, and nuclear fusion research equipment.
• www.cera2.com/embe/embemisc.htm
  Site that offers miscellaneous resources concerning embedded systems; some of the sites listed feature email newsletters, journals, downloads, databases, catalogs, ftp, and several personal pages.
• http://www.amc.com
  Applied Microsystems Coporation showcases on their website the live CODE Interactive Tracing System which allows for run time embedded application debugging; a japanese version of this website is also available.

Mark Bhataravidhya's links:

• http://www.embedded.com
  This website is an online version of Embedded Systems Programming. It has highlight articles about programming for embedded systems. Also has lists of conferences in the field.
• http://www.eda-expos.co.uk/ESS
  This is just a site for the Embedded Systems Show in the UK. Has list of the different companies that are going to be attending and gives more information on attending.
• http://www.eg3.com
  This is a resource site with a search engine that contains a bunch of cutting edge technologies for embedded systems.
• http://fp.image.dk/fpecgroen/embedded.htm
  This is just a bunch of programs that some one has written. Says that they are mostly for the 8051 and written in Keil C. The different ones seemed interesting.

Tsung-Hao Chih's links:

• http://www.treck.com/index.html
  Email: sales@treck.com
  Treck Inc. is an embedded design company that embeds TCP/IP protocols. It is to improve the Internet Protocols in both quality and performance.
• http://www.newmonics.com/
  Email: sales@newmonics.com, support@newmonics.com, webmaster@newmonics.com
  PERC products give developers a smaller and faster run-time environment for embedded Java^TM programming which allows them to focus on the design of key features in order to create more enticing products.
• http://www.octagonsystems.com/Solutions/Toll%20Collection/toll%20 collection.html
  Email: support@octagonsystems.com
  Octagon Systems are embedded systems of small systems that can be used to run remote messaging, medical & intermodel equipment, toll collection, traffic control, etc.

Susan Cotterell's links:

• http://www.howstuffworks.com/microcontroller.htm
  How Stuff Works - How Microcontrollers Work
  A very basic description of microcontrollers, how common they are, and where you can find them. It tells you how to build your own digital clock or digital thermometer. Also has some nice links on things such as how a cell phone works or resources for the 8052.
• http://www.ee.upenn.edu/ee442/ee442home.html
  Penn Engineering EE441 and EE442 Senior Design Projects
  Includes a series of project listings and abstracts. It has some diverse and intresting embedded systmes designed and built by students. One example is a practical putter which has sensors attached to the club and an LCD which displays the distance the ball would have gone.
• http://cprf.asi.calpoly.edu/sproject/kurt
  Calpoly - Senior Project Rose Float Animation System Learn Box
  A very good example of the numerous details involved in designing and implementing an embedded sytem. It is a studnt's project which controls the movements on the Rose Parade Floats. Includes basic steps of the design process and includes some nice pictures and diagrams.
• http://www.vlsi.com/velocity
  VLSI - Rapid Silicon Prototyping
  A product whose goal is to help with the design gap by allowing Software/Hardware codesign.

Suvi Dhirakaosal's links:

• http://www.tmn.com/~frautsch/y2k2.html
  Description: Long (very) article describing the Y2K problem with embedded systems. Less than 1% of 50 billion embedded systems will be effected, but about 25 million (!) of those will be mission critical. Also has information on solutions.
• http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,404561,00. html
  Description: A review of Toshiba's sub $500 megapixel digital camera. This article is a fine example of how embedded systems become cheaper and cheaper as their production volume rises.
• http://www.octagonsystems.com/Products/6050/6050.html
  Description: This page contains information of an 386SX-40 computer on a 4.5" X 4.9" card! It has 2MB of DRAM, 1MB of flash, 128 KB SRAM, 24 digital I/O lines, 2 serial ports, 1 LPT port, and Opto-isolated inputs. Wow ...

Chris Duerr's links:

• http://www.embedded.com
  This page provides articles, links, advertisements, conference information, and a job board to the embedded system engineer. A news archive allows the user to search for keywords in Embedded Systems related articles dating back to 1997.
• http://www.embeddedsystems.com
  This page was designed as a portal for embedded systems engineers. It features complete online editorials relating to the embedded systems field.
• http://www.panelsoft.com
  Panelsoft provides services, free resource, online tutorials and courses related to user interface designs for embedded systems.
• http://www.goahead.com
  Goahead is a commerical business which has designed many intricate embedded systems, including a hardware-based web server and an automatic fault manager for resolving embedded system harware problems.
• http://www.microcontroller.com
  Titled, "Resources for the Professional Embedded Developer," this page offers a wide range of resources for embedded systems software and hardware engineers. This page is also a portal dedicated to embedded systems developers, and offers some extremely nice resources including tutorials, references, news and links.

Matthew Hahn's links:

• http://www.goahead.com
  This is REALLY COOL! This company has a system for updating embedded systems (ROM) via tcp/ip. Just download their web server (infusion) and your appliances with embedded systems can talk to their vendors online for updates. Automatically!
• http://www.embedded.com
  Embedded.com is an all-in-one website dedicated to embedded systems development. You can check up on what the industry is doing as well as find resources for your own projects. This one can be an extremely valuable resources.
• http://embedded-sys-and-soft.com
  This website is not really all that useful (for me). It is just a company trying to sell their design services. They will take your specifications and needs and turn them into an embedded system.
• http://www.wenet.net/~jfong/
  This web site was definitely my favorite. It looks like a personal web site, but it offers embedded design ideas. Specifically as they apply to robotics.
• http://isl.engr.ucr.edu
  This website is primarily concerned with a project titled VMGOES (Vehicle Model Generation and Optimation for Embedded Systems). It appears to apply to games... Not really sure. The idea is to reduce the amount of communication between systems, thus reducing bandwidth.

Phillip Hoang's links:

• http://www.eg3.com
  Embedded systems resource - An embedded system resource page. It has a bunch of links for embedded system research. A search engine is included.
• http://www.carawan.net/ec2plus
  Embedded C++ - This is a group page. It aims to obtain a standard for a subset of C++ for embedded systems programmers. They have meetings regularly.
• http://www.iee.org.uk/2000risk/
  Millenium Problem in Embedded Systems - A page dedicated to the millenium bug and its effect on embedded systems. It has several topics, a lot of information for those that want to find out more about this problem.
• http://www.ics.uci.edu/~cecs/
  Center for Embedded Computer Systems - This site is dedicated to promoting technology transfer and exploring interdisciplinary synergies for embedded computer systems in products, environments and humans.
• http://www.embedded.com
  Embedded.com - This page has general stuff on embedded systems. This includes: news, links, and a search engine. This page is very useful for research.

Keith Humphreys' links:

• http://www.mycal.net/wsweb
  Way Small Webserver
  A very small embedded webserver. Lots of supporting information including code, bill of material, part sourcing, ... Also other links to similar sites.
• http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/mack/links/papers/ConBasDesACM/ paper.html
  Constraint-Based Design of Embedded Inteligent Systems
  Some work on AI, robots, and embedded systems. A scan gives a sense of the activites going on here.
• http://www.cs.lth.se/~roger/thesis.html
  Scheduling Garbage Collection in Embedding Systems
  How to take out the garbage while under fire (in real time)!
• http://www.inf.ufsc.br/~jbosco/lexrem3i.htm
  Remote Experiment Lab (For the 8051)
  Program an 8051 microcontroller over the net. Pretty cool!

Dawson Kwong's links:

• http://www.3dhardware.net/reviews/annihilator/
  The new 3d graphic chip by Nvidia, the GEForce256, will be the king of the 3D video cards. It is the first chip to incorporate a geometry processing unit to handle the calculations needed in high polygon games.
• http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/marv_g400/home.htm
  This video card has a harware MJPEG chip, which is used to compress and decompress video. It can capture and compress vides at resolution of 740x480 at 30 frames per second in real time.
• http://www.futuremedia.org/Media/imedia/marketing/ hauppauge/tvtuner.html
  The Hauppauge's tv tuner card contains a Rockwell BT848 chip that allows you to watch tv images on a PC. This chip also does hardward caputre and compression of video.

Larry Lo's links:

• http://www.epitools.com/aboutus/press_eleases/ majic_by_name_pr.shtml
  Embedded Performance Incorportaed has designed a MAJIC emulator that's capable of supporting application-specific processors, systems-on-a-chip devices, and a wide varitey of processor and DSP cores.
• http://www.estc.com/news2/news_092299.html
  Embedded Support Tools Corportated has introduced "visionPROBE II" and "visionICE II", two improved tools that allows developers to significantly shorten their edit/complile/download/debug cycles.
• http://www.8051.com/nieuws20.asp
  Logic Technology and General Software announced the immediate availability of Embedded BIOS for AMD's Am 186ES embedded computer processor unit.

Aaron McDaniel's links:

• http://www.embedded.com/news/155.htm
  An article about a new chip that Texas Instruments is going to mass market that is 10 times faster and uses much less power then today's most powerful chips.
• http://www.sun.com/sparc/microSPARC-IIep/
  A web page that is dedicated to Sun's microSPARC-IIep. The complete MicroSparc IIep design can be downloaded for free under the terms of Sun's Community Source License.
• http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-334834.html?tag=st.cn.1fd2.
  A news story about Microsoft coming into the embedded system software market. It is an older article, but still interesting on how Microsoft seems to try to fit one of their operating systems into every market, even if it might not be the best fit.
• http://www.embedded.com/report/press.htm
  An article about many new products coming out by several different companies that were featured at an embedded systems convetniton in San Jose.

Joseph Oh's links:

• http://www.allegro.com
  This is actually the first link I've visited. It's a company website, www.allegro.com. I've heard about vending machines being controlled by hooking it up to an internet connection. This company makes Embedded internet application software. In other words, the software allows one to control, configure, manage embedded devices such as vending machines via the internet.
• http://www.akcess2k.com
  This website promoted this product that tests embedded systems for Y2K compliancy. It explains why embedded systems are much more difficult to test for than desktop PCs. It goes on to show how it tests systems, and the things needed.
• http://www.swellsoftware.com
  This company makes PEG = Portable Embedded GUI for real-time embedded systems. (I thought all embedded systems are real-time...) PEG is a GUI library for embedded systems developers.
• http://www.bowlvisions.com/embed1.htm
  This site is a forum addressing the Y2K problem and other stuff for engineers by engineers. There's a nice detailed defenition for what an embedded system is and how it works. This was the most interesting site.

James Roberts' links:

• http://www.iee.org.uk/2000risk/
  This web page explains the technical, as well as legal problems associated with embedded sytems failure that are not Y2K compliant.
• http://www.holonforth.com
  Advertises an interactive programming tool for embedded systems. Claims that a change in the source code will instantly update the executable codes of running programs.
• http://japura.lurpa.ens-cachan.fr/~Denis/8051_faq/
  An extensive Index of frequently asked questions and information on the 8051. Includes a list of FTP sites an other related web pages.
• http://www.ece.umr/~mrmayer/8051/
  A web page dedicated to the simulation of the 8051 through VHDL. Behavioural and structural modesl are available. This is apparently a work in progress.
• http://saturn.las.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/archive/ microcontroller-faq.8051.html
  This is another faq on the 8051. This site however contains links to free langugae and development tools.

Jeremy Thorpe's links:

• http://www.io.com/~guccione/HW_list.html#nP
  A list of FGA computing machines. The other three links are companies that make these chips.
• http://www.xilinx.com/products/virtex.htm
  This is Xilinx's biggest, baddest chip so far -- 3.2 million gates, and the biggest in the world (Xilinx's market cap = 10.6 Billion).
• http://www.altera.com/html/products/products.html
  Altera's greatest FPGA.
• http://www.actel.com/products/proasic
  Actel's best. 1 million system level gates. Actel is used in some experimental FPGA based computers.

John Tyner's links:

• http://www.embedded.com/news/165.htm
  NEC 64 bit processor for less than $10
  Dec 17, 1998
  NEC's new VR4305 as well as a few other new 64 bit processors were released and will run things like HP printer and the nintendo 64.
• http://www.embedded.com.news/324.htm
  Diab Data Announces the First C, C++, and Java Compiling Solutions For Motorola's Newest ColdFire Embedded Microprocessor
  June 15, 1999
  A new compiler was released by Diab Data which allows high level languages to be used on Motorola's Version 4 ColdFire 32 bit processor.
• http://www.playstation.com/hardware/techspecs.asp
  Technical Secifications for the Playstation
  The page talks about the internal hardware in a Sony Playstation such as 32 bit RISC processor (at 34MHz, 30MIPS), a 4kb Instruction Cache, 1 kb data cache, and a 132 MB/sec bus.
• http://www.harvard.co.uk/1999euro/pressrel/sun/sun10.htm
  SUN ANNOUNCES OEM AGREEMENT WITH ERICSSON FOR COMPACT PCI PLATFORM
  Sun and Ericsson have reached an agreement to use Sun's UltroSPARC IIi- based SPARCengine CP 1500 64 bit processor in the new Ericson AXD 301 ATM switches.

Kathryn Wassink's links:

• http://www.cera2.com/ebox.htm
  This site is useful to find materials on embedded sytems. With many resources plus it contains articles on the latest embedded products in the news.
• http://www.iee.org.uk/2000risk
  It describes embedded sytems and about the problems they might cause in the new millenium and how to deal with the problem.
• http://www.embedded-science.com
  It has lots of pictures when explaining about embedded systems and their uses. It also mentions embedded systems having to do with the Y2K problem.

Fei Wihardio's links:

• http://www.embeddedtechnology.com/
  This site provides access to a comprehensive web site on topics such as "industrial computers; single board computers; embdedded systems; Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) and kernels; emulators; debuggers; programmers;   embedded software; co-design/verification tools; Controller Area Networks (CAN);flash memory; PCMCIA; I/O modules; and architectures such as CompactPCI, STD32 , PC/104 and PC-104-Plus.
• http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~cdaly/embed/
  Embedded Systems Internet Resources.
  This site provides links to many useful resources for embedded systems. Unfortunately not familiar enough with the subject I am not able to pick the most useful one...
  The links were categorized into:
  Free Software
  General
  Educational Resources
  Companies
  News Groups
  

• http://www.computer-design.com/Editorial/1997/03/Embedded/397drjava.html
  Title: Java in embedded-systems design
  This editorial discusses Java as the next high-level programming language of choice for embedded systems. It explores the performance issue and offers a few available solutions currently worth pursuing.
• http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/languages/java/jcsp/
  Title: Java Communicating Sequential Processes
  Since I do not quite follow what this library (Java/CSP) is all about, I am including a brief description from this site: "JCSP is a binding of the occam/CSP parallel computing model for Java. Basic packages provide processes, channels, parallel and choice (ALT) constructors. A channel interface to the Java AWT components is also included.

Joshua Wong's links:

• http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/y2k/0798/06case1.html
  This article, though short, emphasizes an important part of the Y2K problem that the media (and the industry) mostly focuses on the software aspect of Y2K and not the hardware, especially embedded systems, which pose a dange of ?infrastructure? failure.
• http://esconline.com
  This site is an information center hub for inside the industry views, topics, and events on not only embedded systems, but other areas such as EE and CS. Especially interesting are the newsgroup listings and posted papers from the Embedded Systems Conference.
• http://www.emultek.com/products.htm
  As a following up to escoline, I found this site. It's product line offers Rapid Plus, Rapid Simulation, and Rapid Internet Plug In. It's tools support the design and implementation of embedded system, decreasing the production life cycle. Used by Motorola and Phillips.
• http://www.motorola.com
  Covers all aspects of motorola: embedded systems, world locations, upcoming product release, a center of telecommunications and embedded systems technology and industry advances. Must see. Great web layout.