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We are looking forward to seeing you all in Kraków, July 2nd.

The talk will cover the recently developed Flattened Device Tree support for FreeBSD.

March 2 - 4 in Nuremberg, Germany
Texas Instruments booth: Hall 12 Stand 436

ARM platform support
- Feroceon and Sheeva embedded CPU support
- Marvell Orion (88F5181, 88F5182, 88F5281), Kirkwood (88F6281, 88F6192) and Discovery Innovation (MV-78100, MV-78200) system-on-chip support
- mge(4) Gigabit Ethernet driver
- kernel mini dump support for ARM
PowerPC platform support
- E500 (Book-E) embedded CPU support, including multi-core
- Freescale PowerQUICCIII MPC8541, MPC8548, MPC8555 (single-core) and MPC8572 (dual-core) system-on-chip support
- sec(4) crypto engine driver
- tsec(4) Gigabit Ethernet driver
U-Boot support library for loader(8) (ARM, PowerPC)
i2c(8) diagnostic utility

venue: ul. Łojasiewicza 6 (lect. room #0089), Kraków
date: 24.11.2009, 12:00am

venue: AGH (Building D6), Kraków
dates: 26.02.2009, 26.03.2009, 23.04.2009, 21.05.2009

Semihalf is expanding rapidly so on August 1st we are moving to a new facility to fit our increasing design and development needs.

The technical conference, co-organized by Semihalf is only two weeks away, www.meetbsd.org

May 2010, Ottawa http://www.bsdcan.org

Please enjoy the demo of our technologies at Texas Instruments booth: Hall 12 Stand 436.

Semihalf brings world's first commercial platform based on the new version of the chip.

Semihalf is a co-organizer of the meetBSD 2010 technical conference in Kraków.

Featuring new functionality and enhancements for the embedded FreeBSD support developed by Semihalf.

November 24th 2009, Kraków Please join our talk hosted at the Jagiellonian University.

Semihalf has been awarded with the FreeBSD Foundation grant to carry out the development.

The port developed by Semihalf is now available from the FreeBSD SVN repository.

Semihalf joins Texas Instruments DSP Third Party Network.

We have moved to bigger and more comfortable offices. See the contact section for all details.

Semihalf joins the ARM Connected Community partnership program.

February-May 2009, Kraków Hosted at the University of Science and Technology (AGH).

March 2009, Tokyo http://www.asiabsdcon.org

Semihalf joins the Freescale Alliance Program with embedded FreeBSD for the PowerQUICC.

Semihalf joins the AMCC Partner Program with embedded FreeBSD offering for the PPC440 and 460 PowerPC systems.

The port developed by Semihalf is now available from the FreeBSD SVN repository.

The port covers SMP, security engine, pattern maching engine and other peripherals support.

May 2008, Ottawa http://www.bsdcan.org

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Moving to the new office

Semihalf is expanding rapidly so on August 1st we are moving to a new facility to fit our increasing design and development needs. Watch the contact info section for updated address and telphone numbers.

meetBSD 2010 technical conference is approaching.

As an organizer we are excited about the upcoming meetBSD conference, which is only two weeks away! The event will be truly international, with speakers and attendees from around the world. See more details at the conference web page.

Speaking at BSDCan 2010 conference

May 2010, Ottawa http://www.bsdcan.org

Semihalf at Embedded World 2010

Please enjoy the demo of Semihalf technologies at the upcoming Embedded World trade fair. Our HASE-1 video analytics platform will be running a real-time face detection and tracking application.

TI DaVinci DM6446 @810MHz powering the latest revision of HASE-1 product.

We are proud to announce one of the world's first commercial systems based on the new version of Texas Instruments DaVinci processor: the DM6446 running at 810MHz (DSP). Previous revisions of this chip could run up to 594MHz, so this brings a significant processing power increase of the DSP unit.

See product pages for HASE-1 video analytics module and the complementary DB-1B board.

Organizing meetBSD 2010 technical conference.

Semihalf is happy to be involved with co-organizing this year's editon of the meetBSD conference. The event will take place July 2-3 in Kraków, Poland.

For more details please see the English or Polish web site of the conference.

FreeBSD 8.0 has been released.

This important release brings a number of improvements for the embedded FreeBSD platforms developed by Semihalf. This includes the following:

Full release notes can be found here

Lecture on embedded systems at the Jagiellonian University.

Semihalf co-founder Bartłomiej Sięka, Ph.D. will be presenting an introductory lecture on embedded systems, hosted at the Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty at the Jagiellonian University. The event will be open to the public.

Full details can be found here (in Polish)

Flattened device tree for FreeBSD.

The FreeBSD Foundation is kindly sponsoring Semihalf to work on bringing the flattened device tree (FDT) technology to the FreeBSD operating system. For more details see this announcement.

FreeBSD for Marvell SheevaPlug device.

The port developed by Semihalf is now available from the FreeBSD SVN repository and it is going to be part of the upcoming 8.0-RELEASE.

Joining Texas Instruments DSP Third Party Network

Semihalf joins Texas Instruments DSP Third Party Network with FreeBSD/arm offering and software/hardware design and engineering services.

Moving to the new office

We have moved to bigger and more comfortable offices. See the contact section for all details (including the map).

Joining ARM Connected Community

Semihalf joins the ARM Connected Community partnership program with the embedded FreeBSD/arm offering.

Lectures on embedded systems at AGH

Semihalf will be presenting a series of introductory lectures on embedded systems, using commercial FreeBSD deployments as examples. The lectures will be held at the University of Science and Technology (AGH) in Kraków, and will be open to the public.

Full details can be found here (in Polish)

Speaking at AsiaBSDCon'09 conference

March 2009, Tokyo http://www.asiabsdcon.org

Joining Freescale Alliance Program

Semihalf joins the Freescale Alliance Program with embedded FreeBSD offering for the PowerQUICC systems.

Joining AMCC Partner Program

Semihalf joins the AMCC Partner Program with embedded FreeBSD offering for the PPC440 and 460 PowerPC systems.

FreeBSD for Marvell Orion, Kirkwood and Discovery chips.

The port developed by Semihalf is now available from the FreeBSD SVN repository.

FreeBSD for Freescale PowerQUICCIII MPC8572

The port covers dual-core operation of the SMP kernel, security engine, pattern matching engine and other integrated peripherals support.

Speaking at BSDCan'08 conference

May 2008, Ottawa http://www.bsdcan.org

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November 24th 2009, Kraków

Please join our talk hosted at the Jagiellonian University.

February-May 2009, Kraków
Hosted at the University of Science and Technology (AGH).