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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%
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| 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 |
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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 |
Technology In Context
RTC covers cutting-edge technology in real-world applications, including medicine, communications, aerospace, industrial automation, and control. The Technology in Context sections looks at the impact of embedded technology in these major application areas. Our editors strategically select key technologies where the solutions outlined and information provided are highly applicable and transferable.
FPGA Development
Goldilocks and FPGA Development – a Methodology That’s Just Right
Jeff Millrod, BittWare
August 2010
While tools and support for the development of FPGA IP blocks have made tremendous advances in recent years, it still remains burdensome to integrate these blocks into a large, complexRead More...
FPGA Development
Three Keys to Unleashing the Full Horsepower of the FPGA
Ivo Bolsens, Xilinx
August 2010
Today’s FPGAs have high computational efficiency, high bandwidth concurrent memory access, rich on-chip interconnectivity and are uniquely hardware as well software programmable. As aRead More...
Small Form Factor SBCs
Stackable Single Board Computers: Choosing between the Form Factors
Dr. Qi Chen, Adlink Technology
July 2010
Implementation of an application’s embedded computing feature requirements can be done using two basic stackable modular design approaches: Single Board Computer (SBC) andRead More...
Low-Power CPUs
Keeping Cool as Low-Power CPUs Bring Intelligence into Small Spaces.
Ciaran MacNeill, VIA Technologies
June 2010
X86 processors run a huge variety of software, providing designers choices including Microsoft Windows, Linux and many real-time operating systems. These OSs are evolving and addingRead More...
Low-Power CPUs
A Call to ARMs: Auto Industry Quality Standards Provide Path to SWaP-C Reduction
David Jedynak, Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems
June 2010
Size, Weight, Power and Cost are always concerns in rugged and mobile applications. However, the level of emphasis varies dramatically between the types of applications. In the groundRead More...
Low-Power CPUs
VME Single Board Computers Attract Growing Share of Low-Power CPUs
Eric Hiekkila, Venture Development Corporation
June 2010
The embedded military COTS market, and by extension the VME market, has always been one where low-power processors were of extreme importance. This is the reason that PowerRead More...
Developing for Multi-Core Processors
Multi-Core Software: To Gain Speed, Eliminate Resource Contention
by Steve Graves, McObject
May 2010
Deployment on multicore CPUs should make software faster by enabling tasks to run in parallel rather than waiting for a time slice on a single core. But in practice, parallelRead More...
Developing for Multi-Core Processors
Gap Remains Between Multi-core Potential and Software Realization
Eric Heikkila, Venture Development Corporation
May 2010
VDC’s embedded hardware and systems research practice recently surveyed over 200 embedded developers who were using multicore processors. The results showed that there is still a majorRead More...
Developing for Multi-Core Processors
Optimizing Multicore Software for Embedded Processors
by Stephen Blair-Chappell and Max Domeika, Intel
May 2010
The use of multicore processors in embedded systems is increasing. These processors, which are two or more processor cores on one package, enable increased computation performance andRead More...
Advances in Small Form Factors
Introducing the FeaturePak Embedded I/O Expansion Standard
by Jonathan Miller and Rick Lehrbaum, Diamond Systems
April 2010
Born in the early ’90s with the advent of PC/104, the “stackable single board computer” market rapidly evolved into a thriving global ecosystem. Two decades later, PC/104—joined by aRead More...
Advances in Small Form Factors
Bigger Jobs in the Same Space
by Martin Mayer, Advanced Digital Logic
April 2010
The PC/104 envelope continues to benefit from Moore’s Law, as CPU performance has reached a new plateau of 20 GIPS starting with Intel’s T7400 CPU and continued with the SP9300.Read More...
Embedded Memory System Options
Improving RAID Storage Systems with Non-volatile Write Journals
Ravi Prakash and Shivendra Singh, Cypress Semiconductor
March 2010
When RAID was first introduced, the term was defined as “Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks.” It has now become a blanket term for data storage schemes with better fault toleranceRead More...
Embedded Memory System Options
Phase Change Memory will Change Memory System Design
Jim Handy, Objective Analysis
March 2010
Phase Change Memory or PCM is a new memory technology being explored by several companies. This technology fits between today’s volatile and nonvolatile memory technologies to provideRead More...
CompactPCI in Control and Automation
High-Tech Control and Automation Apps—a Natural for CompactPCI
by David Pursley, Kontron
February 2010
Embedded design for industrial control and automation markets is characterized today by a great need for flexibility within computing systems. Small, highly integrated rugged systemsRead More...
FPGAs--Is Bigger Always Better?
Low-Cost PCI Express-Compliant FPGAs Enable a Plethora of Peripherals
by Greg Lara, Xilinx
January 2010
FPGAs play an important role in embedded processing by enabling customized hardware for protocol bridging, signal processing acceleration and real-time embedded control. Now, twoRead More...