And, thanks to a recent conversation CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA Systems editorial director Joe Pavlat had with John Fryer, director of technology marketing at Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing (formerly Motorola Inc., Embedded Communications Computing), answers are forthcoming as well.

Day 2 here are ISA Expo, mostly networking topics today.

It doesn’t take long for interesting stuff to show up at Embedded Systems Conference, and there’ll be lots more I’ll be talking about in the next few days. Here are some quick notes from the first presser I sat in on featuring Quadros Systems, Coverity, ANT, QNX, Ampro, and Amphenol:

AMD’s announcement of the “Barcelona”, officially the Quad-Core AMD Opteron, goes right after Design for Energy Efficiency at the very high end of our embedded space. AMD has introduced something they call Average Core Power (ACP), trying to characterize power draw when a system is actually working doing real stuff. The new device was introduced at 55W and 75W ACP points.