ITRON INTERNATIONAL MEETING '98

The ITRON Technical Committee of the TRON Association will host the ITRON International Meeting at the Hyatt Sainte Claire Hotel during Embedded Systems Conference '98 in San Jose, California. The purpose of the meeting is to present the overview and the current status of the ITRON Project, to introduce the recent developments in the project, and to exchange ideas on its future directions.

The meeting will start with lunch served at noon at the Ball Room of the Hyatt Sainte Claire Hotel (the next building from San Jose Convention Center) on Wednesday, November 4, 1998. At the meeting, presentations on the current status and activities of the ITRON Project will be made by the ITRON Technical Committee Members, both from market and technical points of view. After them, presentations on ITRON-related products by several companies are scheduled.

All those interested in the ITRON Project are invited to attend the ITRON International Meeting. Those who plan to attend the meeting are asked to register with the registration form attached below.

Meeting Program

12:00 Lunch

• Lunch buffet will be served at the meeting room.

12:15 Opening Remarks

Jim Farrell (TRON Association U.S. Liaison Office)

12:20 Introduction to the ITRON Project

Kiichiro Tamaru (ITRON Technical Committee Chair / Toshiba Corp.)

12:35 Overview of the µITRON4.0 and ITRON TCP/IP API Specifications

Hiroaki Takada (ITRON Technical Committee / Toyohashi Univ. of Technology)

major topics:

• µITRON4.0: The next generation µITRON specification
• ITRON TCP/IP API: A standard TCP/IP API for embedded systems

12:50 Overview of the JTRON2.0 Specificaiton

Shouichi Hachiya (ITRON Technical Committee / Aplix Corporation)

major topics:

• JTRON2.0: An integration of Java Runtime Environment and the ITRON-specification real-time kernel

13:05 Open Java Solutions for Embedded Systems

Vania Joloboff (The Open Group)

13:20 Break

13:30 Product Presentations

• "MT!-ITRON 3.0 and an Embedded Desktop Interface"
  Nicholas J. Witchey (US Software Corp.)
• "CodeWarrior and ITRON, the Next Generation - Kernel Aware Debugging and RAD Toolkit -"
  John Cheuck (Metrowerks KK.)
• "GEOS-SC - Efficient GUI, Browser and Personal Java 1.1 for microITRON-based Mobile Devices"
  Doug Fults (Geoworks, Inc.)
• "A Introduction to JENE, Breakthrough technology for Java Embedded Systems"
  David Winterburn (Insignia Solutions)
• "Tools for Developing C/C++/Java-written Applications for Embedded Systems"
  George Malek (Apogee Software, Inc.)
• "ZIPC for ITRON - State Transition Matrix Design Method CASE Tool"
  Masahiko Watanabe (CATS CO., LTD.)
• "eCos: a configurable, µITRON compatible RTOS"
  Shinya Akamine (Cygnus Solutions)

15:00 Closing Remarks

15:05 Special Session

• "The Impact of Open Source Infrastructure for Designing Embedded Systems"
  (Cygnus Solutions)

(16:00) meeting closed

	  ITRON International Meeting Registration Form

			November 4, 1998
		Hyatt Sainte Claire, San Jose, CA

To register, please fill this registration form and send it via E-mail
or FAX to the following address.

	ITRON International Meeting Registration
	c/o TRON Association, Katsuta Bldg. 5F
	Mita 1-3-39, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0073, JAPAN
	FAX: +81-3-3454-3224
	E-mail: registration@itron.gr.jp

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What is the ITRON Project?

The ITRON Project is to standardize real-time operating system for embedded systems and related specifications. Many products have been developed based on the µITRON real-time kernel specification, which was designed for consumer products and other small-scale embedded systems, and adopted in countless end products, making it an industry standard in this field in Japan. The ITRON specifications are investigated and developed by the ITRON Technical Committee of the TRON Association, as one of the subproject of the TRON Project. The ITRON Project is explained in more detail on the ITRON Home Page at "http://www.itron.gr.jp/".