The Links - Updated

U P D A T E D L I N K L I S T

Find below the updated link list from my book.

If you find any error or possible additions, please let me know!

Legalities:

Please be reminded that these links are outside of my control which does prohibit me from having any influence on the content the moment you view them. They are however selected in the hope they may be useful.

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S P E C I F I C A T I O N S A N D R E F E R E N C E S O N L I N E



Organisation	Themen	Adresse


VITA (VME Industrial Trade Association)	VME Bus and related topics, also PMC and Prozessor PMC	www.vita.com


PIC MG (PCI Manufacturers Group )	CompactPCI, CompactTCA, AdvancedTCA	www.picmg.com


PCISIG (PCI Special Interest Group )	PCIbus in general	www.pcisig.com


Intel Processor Documentation	x86 CPUs	ark.intel.com


Freescale (former Motorola) Processor documentation	Power Architecture (was PowerPC), 68k and other processors and DSPs	www.freescale.com


GroupIPC	Mezzanine modules and manufacturers	www.groupipc.com


NSSN	Standards search engine - ANSI standards etc.	www.nssn.org


IEEE	IEEE Internet site with standards information	www.ieee.org


The Landfield Group - no longer available. If you know a new one, let us know!	References in general


Merriam Webster Co.	WWWebster online reference site	www.m-w.com


Dinkum Software	ANSI C Standard Documentation	No longer available, unfortunately!

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V X W O R K S A N D R E A L T I M E O N L I N E



Organization	Address


Wind River Systems	www.windriver.com


WindRiver Developers Network - definitely worth a look!	developer.windriver.com


Dedicated Systems Journal and Encyclopedia	www.realtime-info.be


Embedded Systems Resources	www.eg3.com/real/index.htm and www.eg3.com/realv/index.htm


VXWorks FTP Archive (old, yet interesting!)	ftp://ftp.atd.ucar.edu/pub/archive/vxworks


Tornado II FAQ	www.xs4all.nl/~borkhuis/vxworks/vxworks.html


More VxWorks FAQs	www.faqs.org/faqs/vxworks-faq


VxWorks Experiments	www.rt.db.erau.edu/experiments/vx/toc/TableOfContents.htm

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P R O G R A M M I N G T O O L S



Organization	Address


Free Software Foundation (GNU Project)	www.gnu.org


Cygnus Inc., now a part of RedHat Inc.	See below.


Open Source Projects at RedHat	sources.redhat.com


Source Navigator, a SNIFF look-alike. Next Generation toolset taken over after the original development on Sourceforge passed away.	http://sourcenav.berlios.de/


Greenhills Software	www.ghi.com


Some Shareware Servers	Make sure you pick magazine sites or the home sites for the projects - there are too many "pay for free software" sites around nowadays!

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I N T E R N E T N E W S

If you do not have access to a News Server, you should use Google Groups.

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Newsgroup	Description


comp.os.vxworks	VxWorks Exploder Gatewayed Newsgroup (i.e. Postings to the Newsgroup appear on the mailinglist vxwexplo@lbl.gov and vice versa)


comp.realtime	General realtime-related newsgroup


comp.arch.bus.vmebus	VMEbus related Newsgroup (very few postings)


comp.sys.m68k	680x0 processor family related newsgroup


comp.sys.intel	Intel processor related newsgroup


comp.sys.powerpc.*	PowerPC related newsgroup hierarchy


comp.sys.sun.hardware	SPARC hardware related newsgroup


comp.sys.arm	ARM RISC Related newsgroup - should also include XScale!


comp.sys.m88k	88xxx processor family related newsgroup


comp.sys.mips	MIPS Ryx000 processor family related Newsgroup

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