Why do I call these young computer enthusiasts and organizational activists a£á?digital nativesa£á?? Think about the extraordinary cumulative digital experiences of each of these future leaders: an average of close to 10,000 hours playing video games; more than 200,000 e-mails and instant messages sent and received; nearly 10,000 hours of talking, playing games, and using data on cell phones; more than 20,000 hours spent watching TV; almost 500,000 commercials seen a£á¡¨ all before they finished college. At most, theya£á?ve logged only 5,000 hours of book reading.

This generation is better than any before at absorbing information and making decisions quickly, as well as at multitasking and parallel processing. In contrast, people age 30 or older are a£á?digital immigrantsa£á? because they can never be as fluent in technology as a native who was born into it. You can see it in the digital immigrantsa£á? a£á?accenta£á? a£á¡¨ whether it is printing out e-mails or typing with fingers rather than thumbs. Have you ever noticed that digital natives, unlike digital immigrants, dona£á?t talk about a£á?information overloada£á?? Rather, they crave more information.

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Jaluna has developed technology that lets uClinux run alongside the native DSP/BIOS application environment on a single-core DSP (digital signal processor). The technology can be used to build inexpensive IP-STBs based on Texas Instruments DSPs. Jaluna has partnered with codec vendor Ateme to demo a single-DSP IP-STB software implementation.

Most media processing systems today use a combined RISC/DSP dual-core architecture in which signal processing (typically compression and decompression) happens in real time on the DSP while the RISC core runs an OS and applications for the user interface, networking, and other less real-time functions. Jaluna says its technology will enable complete IP-STBs and other media-centric systems to be built on hardware with only a single DSP core.

The technology is based on Jaluna's OSware virtual platform technology, introduced in May. OSware includes an "NK2" nanokernel, said to divide hardware resources among multiple operating environments while preserving the real-time capabilities of each. It also provides a virtual bus for interOS communication and an optional software watchdog component.

OSware enables multiple application environments, including Linux, to share a single processor, including a single DSP

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