Who's Who in Embedded Y2K

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Who's Who in Embedded Y2K

	Arnie Berger - Musings on the Year 2000 Problem in Embedded Systems
Bio	Dave Bettinger - Embedded Chips - Dispelling Some Myths, Y2KLAW - An addendum to the Embedded Chip discussion
	Patrick Bossert - embedded systems testing - Delta-T Probe Read: The Scale of the Problem, Video and Audio Clips
	Michael Cherry - Century Corp. - CenturyProbe 2000
Bio	Ann Coffou - (Giga Information Group) Ann K. Coffou's Testimony-
	David Collins - Embedded Industrial Control Systems and the Year 2000 Problem
	Terry Costlow and Alexander Wolfe - Embedded Systems May Harbor Hidden Glitches
	Rick Cowles - Electric Utilities and Year 2000 - Contact the Author Rick was the Director, Industry Y2K Solutions for TAVA/R.W. Beck LLC
	Steve Davis - Dealing With The Year 2000 Problem: Embedded Systems
	Mike Droeger - SEMI Public Relations
	Gary Easterbrook - Essp Ltd - Embedded Systems Solution Providers
	Mark Frautschi - Embedded Systems and the Year 2000 Problem (The OTHER Year 2000 Problem)
Bio	David Hall - SIM International Year 2000 Working Group David is the infrastructure topic manager.
	Jon Huntress - For Most Businesses, This Does Not Have to be a Major Problem
	Jim Lott - Dallas Semiconductor Corp., 4401 S. Beltwood Pkwy., Dallas, TX 75244; (972) 371-4000; fax (972) 371-4370; e-mail: Solving The Year 2000 Real-Time Clock Dilemma
	Roleigh Martin - 2000.jbaworld.com - Embedded Systems - the micro(chip) problem
	Florence Olsen (Patrick Simonis) - PC managers seek the real deal on real-time clocks \| GCN November 23, 1998
	Mitch Ratcliffe - Embedded Chips Not Seen As Big Problem
	Jim Ready - CTO, Mentor Graphics Corporation, Microtec Division Y2K - The Tip of the Iceberg for Embedded Systems - Raytheon Systems Company Selects MicroTec's VRTXŽ Real-Time Operating System for Wide Area Augmentation System
	Jack Robertson - YK2000 problem in MCUs could hurt OEMs Does chip industry have Y2K problem? Microcontrollers may create liabilities
	Art Scott - Embedded Systems, Clocks, and Year 2000
	Rick Scott - SEMATECH Solve the Year 2000 Problem
	Tom Scully - Critique of Mark Frautschi's Report
Bio	Harlan Smith - Y2K News Magazine - Harlan Smith - Embedded systems vs computer systems - remediation
Bio	Alistair Stewart - (Giga Information Group) - focuses on the non-IT/embedded systems
	Jeff Weir, former communications director for the Semiconductor Industry Association tracking Y2K issues (now with chipmaker Xilog).

	Howard Belasco - JAWS
	Marilyn Cohodas and Barbara Jorgensen - Electronic Buyers' News: "Passing on the Y2K bug Independent distributors mulling liability issue"
	Frank Greenhalgh - Due Diligence for Y2K "The electrical distribution grids in this country are joined together by about 13,000 computers."
Bio	Jennifer McNeill, president of Cipher Systems Ltd in Calgary, Alberta - "to a city where they've determined half their fire trucks won't run after Jan. 1, 2000,"
	Thomas Starnes - DataQuest
	Donald C. Stewart, CPA - president of S & W Technologies Defining Mission Critical Operations For Y2K Compliance

Tom Scully: World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) from Integrated Circuit Engineering Corp. (ICE) Status 1998 - 2scully@concentric.net, July 17, 1998

Units (millions)	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997(est)	Total
Microcontroller	1,722	1,902	2,221	2,659	3,067	3,450	4,167	19,188
Microprocessor	136	143	167	170	212	249	286	1,363

TG Lee - Y2k Embedded Systems Links

World Bank - infoDev - Year 2000 Resources

Year 2000 Support Centre - Embedded Systems and Global Positioning Systems (GPSW) and Y2K

fraube@geocities.com - Y2K Embedded Processor Testing Coordinator

The Size of the Problem

	Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) - www.semichips.org Chip industry distances itself from Y2K issue "However, the SIA acknowledged that a "small percentage" of semiconductors could be sensitive to the date change. They include non-volatile memory chips, the real-time clocks that regulate time in PCs, and the microcontrollers used in a range of embedded systems including industrial equipment, laser printers, microwave ovens, and automobiles. A "small percentage" in the $137 billion global semiconductor industry could mean a lot of chips, acknowledged SIA spokesman Jeff Weir. "If you're trying to size up the number of chips that might have some date-related programming it's probably in the millions, but there's no real way of knowing. Our organization keeps track of production, sales, and figures like that, but even we don't have the data to come up with an accurate guess," Weir said."
	SEMIOnLine Y2K Readiness, Semiconductor Industry Market Statistics
	EIAJ Semiconductor Home Page Regional Semiconductor Market Size of the World Semiconductor Charts & Tables Capital Investment of World Semiconductor Industries Semiconductor Industry Update
	Hitex - Chip directory
	www.semidex.com/
	www.semiconductoronline.com/
	www.icweekly.com/
	Tava RW Beck, LLC. - Home Y2K Issues for the Electric Utility Industry
	R. W. BECK Online
	National Software Testing Laboratories - List of Products that meet NSTL's Year 2000 Compliance Testing Standards

Semiconductor Industry Statistics- Microprocessor Statistics:

4th Quarter 1997	Units	Embedded	Non-Embedded	Worldwide Total
16Bit ALU/16Bit Bus	Units (000)	12,293	0	12,293
32 Bit ALU/16Bit Bus	Units (000)	20,015	28	20,043
32Bit ALU/32Bit BUS	Units (000)	98,107	101,486	199,593
Total 16/32Bit MPU	Units (000)	130,415	101,514	199,593
CISC	Dollars (000)	$88,773	$0	$88,773
CISC	Dollars (000)	$99,245	$369	$99,614
CISC/RISC	Dollars (000)	$2,222,975	$20,854,011	$23,076,988
Total	Dollars (000)	$2,410,993	$20,854,380	$23,265,373
16Bit ALU/16Bit Bus	$/Unit	7.22		7.22
32 Bit ALU/16Bit Bus	$/Unit	4.96	13.18	4.97
32Bit ALU/32Bit BUS	$/Unit	22.66	205.49	115.62
Total 16/32Bit MPU	$/Unit	18.49	205.43	116.56

Embedded chip market to soar

Motorola Ships 79 Million 68K-ColdFire(r) Processor Units in 1997

Microchip Technology Inc.- Press Release- MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY LEAPS TO #2 POS

Chip industry distances itself from Y2K issue

Who is Affected?

eg3.com is the oldest and largest web resource devoted to electronic design, specifically embedded systems, realtime, and DSP. Founded in late 1994, eg3.com indexes the free and non-commercial design information on the Net, summarizes the over 800 vendor companies that make up this marketplace, and organizes the content of major chip companies and third party vendors into a searchable "design tool" for EE's and designers.

Link on Y2K for embedded software

ISA, the international society for measurement and control reference and product information, training, and professional development - This list of ISA Divisions is not Y2K specific, just links to some good people and organizations. I have placed it here to give you an idea of the range of technologies and disciplines affected by Y2K.

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