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RTEC10 is an index made up of 10 public companies which have revenue that is derived primarily from sales in the embedded sector. The companies are made up of both software and hardware companies being traded on public exchanges.
| COMPANY | PRICE | CHANGE |
|---|---|---|
Kontron | 7.81 | 4.577%
|
Adlink | 1.54 | 2.388%
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Advantech | 2.32 | 1.505%
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Interphase | 1.61 | -3.012%
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Radisys | 9.26 | -1.016%
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| -   Performance Technologies | 2.10 | 0.000% |
| -   Enea | 5.63 | 0.000% |
PLX | 3.62 | -3.209%
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Mercury Computer | 11.76 | -2.931%
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Elma | 412.98 | -0.476%
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| HIGH | LOW | MKT CAP |
|---|---|---|
7.85 | 7.43 | 435.04 |
1.58 | 1.52 | 185.11 |
2.33 | 2.30 | 1,198.70 |
1.70 | 1.61 | 11.00 |
9.41 | 9.24 | 223.74 |
| 2.10 | 2.10 | 23.34 |
| 5.63 | 5.54 | 101.86 |
3.74 | 3.61 | 134.28 |
12.17 | 11.76 | 279.57 |
412.98 | 412.98 | 94.25 |
Industry Watch

Touch Screen Technology
From Your Finger to the Screen – How Touch screens Understand
by Steve Kolokowsky and Trevor Davis, Cypress Semiconductor
April 2010
While touch screens have become more prevalent in everyday electronics, few people understand how they really work. From the capacitive change from a human finger to the final motionRead More...

Advances in Processor Technology
Intel’s Core i7: What It Means to the Embedded Market
Richard Kirk, GE Intelligent Platforms
March 2010
On Thursday, January 7 of this year, according to one editor in the embedded computing space, it “rained” Intel Core i7 press releases. According to another editor, theRead More...

Programmable Devices
Graphics Processors Running General-Purpose Code Set to Revolutionize Embedded Computing
by Simon Collins, GE Intelligent Platforms
January 2010
The quest for ever higher performance in embedded computing has seen successive generations of microprocessor come and go, with quad core the latest to rise to the challenge. DSP andRead More...

Programmable Devices
Embedded Digital Filtering on Programmable Mixed-Signal Devices
by Kendall Castor-Perry, Cypress Semiconductor
January 2010
The increasing availability of affordable microcontrollers with analog-to-digital front ends continues to change how embedded systems are being designed. Often termed “mixed-signalRead More...

FPGAs
Embedded FPGA Processing Platforms: Customization Meets Performance
by Glenn Steiner and Dan Isaacs, Xilinx
October 2009
Embedded processing with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) combines the ultimate in customization and scalable performance. Their ability to adapt and quickly respond to changingRead More...

Advanced Platform Management
LAN-Attached TCA Management Controllers: How to Build and Use Them
Mark Overgaard, Pigeon Point Systems
September 2009
AdvancedTCA (ATCA) and MicroTCA (μTCA) are being aggressively deployed, creating opportunities for enhancements in the hardware platform management infrastructure that has been such aRead More...

Multicore Processing
The Good News and the Bad News: Your New Chip Has Multiple Cores
Arun Subbarao, LynuxWorks
July 2009
For the embedded software developer, the traditional world has used a single processor core for the main control software and a real-time operating system (RTOS) to separate theRead More...

Embedded Data Integrity
Building Fault Tolerance into Embedded Data Management
Duncan Bates, Birdstep Technology
June 2009
Small resource-constrained applications are getting so complex that we can’t even start comparing the requirements from 10 years back with what we see today. Nonetheless there has beenRead More...

Silicon Solutions Enable Migration to Next Generation Networks
Moshe De-Leon, Siverge Networks
March 2009
A Universal Gateway is a logic solution that can truly provide any port, service, functionality and interworking/translation capability from any protocol to any other protocol in layerRead More...

Make vs. Buy: The Case for Outsourcing Complete ATCA Systems
Brian Wood, VP Marketing, Continuous Computing
March 2009
Telecom infrastructure industry standards and our collective attitudes toward open systems have evolved to the point where it is no longer necessary for telecom equipment manufacturersRead More...
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