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STOCKHOLM — Embedded Conference Scandinavia

Thingsquare, a pioneering provider of software connecting the physical world through the Internet, has selected IAR Embedded Workbench for developing its Thingsquare Mist connectivity platform for home and building automation, and for smart lighting. IAR Systems’ embedded software development tool chain gives Thingsquare and its customers the compact and highly efficient code that is fundamental when smart objects communicate with each other via the Internet.

Thingsquare and its customers contribute to the growth of systems for smart homes, smart offices and smart cities, based on battery-operated systems and low-power Internet communication. Thingsquare Mist uses Contiki, the open source operating system for the Internet of Things, created by Thingsquare co-founder Adam Dunkels.

IAR Embedded Workbench is the world’s most widely used tool chain for 8-, 16-, and 32-bit MCUs, and is available for more than 7,400 devices. The highly-optimizing C/C++ compiler and debugger tool suite is a completely integrated development environment for developing, building, and debugging embedded applications with strong requirements on performance and reliability.

“IAR Embedded Workbench provides an easy-to-use, efficient and reliable tool chain,” says Fredrik Österlind, CTO at Thingsquare. “Many of our customers demand tools from IAR Systems for their development projects and we are very pleased to show that IAR Embedded Workbench provides excellent development tools for Thingsquare Mist-based solutions. As it supports such a huge and comprehensive bandwidth of devices suitable for smart systems, it will also help us to stay flexible in our hardware choice.”

“Thingsquare is a truly visionary, innovative and future-oriented technology company and we are very pleased that IAR Embedded Workbench plays a role in their product development,” says Liselott Lundeborg, Nordic Sales Manager at IAR Systems. “We look forward to supporting Thingsquare and its customers in their development projects and will be quite proud as new smart systems enter the market.”

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About IAR Systems

IAR Systems is  Embedded System he world’s leading supplier of software tools for developing embedded systems applications. The software enables over 14 000 large and small companies to develop premium products based on 8-, 16-, and 32-bit microcontrollers, mainly in the areas of industrial automation, medical devices, consumer electronics, telecommunication and automotive products. IAR Systems has an extensive network of partners and cooperates with the world’s leading semiconductor vendors. IAR Systems Group AB is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm. For more information, please visit www.iar.com

About Thingsquare

Thingsquare is the leading provider of open-source software for the Internet of Things. Founded in 2012 with the aim to simplify the Internet of Things, Thingsquare provides standards-based software to a wide range of customers developing applications for smart lighting, smart cities and smart buildings. For more information, visit www.thingsquare.com

Read more here: http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/10/02/4305801/thingsquare-selects-development.html#storylink=cpy

劉天一/矽谷創業家

　一個初創公司，在初創階段，由於人力財力薄弱，就應該選擇一兩個重要而有把握的產品，集中全力進行，其可能的勝算，應會超過過度的分兵多處。

　《孫子兵法》第六篇〈虛實〉篇中提到：「故備前則後寡，備後則前寡，備左則右寡，備右則左寡，無所不備，則無所不寡。寡者，備人者也；眾者，使人備己者也。」

　這裡是說，如果防備了前面，後面的兵力就薄弱了，如果防備了後面，前面的兵力就薄弱，如果防備了左邊，右邊的兵力就薄弱，防備了右邊，左邊的兵力就薄弱。如果每個地方都加以防備，就處處兵力薄弱。兵力之所以薄弱，是因為處處分兵防備的緣故，己方兵力之所以充沛，是因為使得對方處處分兵防備的策略。

　占據市場多年的大公司，由於歷史性的悠久發展，自然各種產品琳瑯滿目一應俱全，雖然財大氣粗實力雄厚，但還是有可能陷入剛剛所提到的《孫子兵法》中所謂，處處防備則處處薄弱的情況。所以初創公司，更是不宜產品線太多，應該盡量在剛開始的階段，選擇一兩個短期或中期勝任有餘，而能夠及時完成的產品，以達到立竿見影之效，同時也足以適時的激勵士氣。若是初創公司產品線拉得太多太長，就像軍隊戰線拉得太長一樣，假設沒有類似大公司所具備的經濟實力和基礎，小而美的初創公司，通常是無法做到圓滿成功的。所以大體而言，初創公司的初始策略，應該多少著重在所謂的孤注一擲，或者集中於少數的精華產品，就像如前所述的，要集中全軍力量，打擊對方比較脆弱的部分，是為上策。

　坊間有關敘述蘋果電腦的賈伯斯的書中，提到賈伯斯說：「人們認為專注就是對你必須要注意的事情說Yes，但實際上完全不是這樣的，專注意味著對其他上百個很好的想法說No，因此你需要謹慎的選擇。」

　史上號稱動員最大的戰爭，是第二次世界大戰德國軍隊進攻蘇俄領土的戰爭。希特勒當時集結了沿著俄國邊境約四百萬的地面部隊，以及無數可觀的坦克和戰鬥飛機參與，沿著俄國的廣大邊境地區，發動了全面攻擊。德國雖然開始的時候攻勢凌厲，勢如破竹，一路打到莫斯科，但終究因為分兵多處以及戰線拉的太長，再加上極度寒冷天氣的打擊，終於潰敗。

　據說希特勒在全面攻擊俄國之前，曾經詳細的研究和分析拿破崙之所以攻俄失敗的種種原因，以避免重蹈覆轍，但是最終仍舊無法逃脫同樣戰敗的命運。可見不管人是自認為有多麼的天縱英明，以及實力有多麼的無比強大，舉世無匹，但只要是不依照戰勝成功的應有原則行事，就只好都同樣要面臨失敗崩潰的厄運。(本文節錄自《讓你少奮鬥十年的致勝兵法》，聯經，2012年6月8日出版 )

IEI Launches Industrial SBC with Intel® HM61 Express Chipset for Various Cost-efficient Applications

The IMB-H610 is a Micro ATX motherboard supporting LGA1155 Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3/Pentium®/Celeron® CPU with Intel® H61 chipset.  The IMB-H610 provides flexible expansion interfaces, including one PCIe x16 slot and three PCIe x1 slots. Extra frame grabber cards can be installed in the expansion slots to capture video images efficiently when applying the IMB-H610 in complex automation systems.  The IMB-H610 supports a wide range of I/O options including ten USB 2.0, five RS-232 ports, one RS-422/485 port, one PS/2 keyboard connector, one PS/2 mouse connector and four SATA 3Gb/s ports.

ITTIA Database Enables Accelerated Development in ARM Architecture Ecosystem

Bellevue, WA — ITTIA announces the availability of its embedded database for the ARM™architecture. ITTIA provides embedded relational database software for developers of applications for mobile devices and other embedded systems. With ITTIA DB SQL's robust data management framework and ARM's hardware architecture, data is managed and accessed in a flexible and efficient way. Customers from industries such as consumer electronics, clean energy, medical devices, and robotics have already built state of art applications with ITTIA DB SQL on ARM.

ITTIA customers have reflected great interest in developing ARM-based embedded applications and, in response to this demand, ITTIA has continuously demonstrated its commitment and ability in providing a lightweight, high-performance, relational database solution on ARM.

The combination of ITTIA DB SQL data management abilities with ARM's low-power chips offers a great solution to protect data integrity, organize information, and share or distribute data across embedded development ecosystems.

ITTIA DB SQL is an ideal candidate for embedded and mobile applications developers on ARMTM cores, including StrongARM, ARM7TDMI, ARM9TDMI, ARM7EJ, ARM9E, ARM10E, XScale, ARM11, ARM Cortex-M, ARM Cortex-A, ARM Cortex-M, and ARM Cortex-R.

For application developers looking to make a trade-off between the flexibility offered by the traditional relational data management model and a rapid time to market, ensured with low-power consumption, ITTIA DB SQL on ARM is an ideal, cost-effective solution.

A free copy of ITTIA DB SQL, for ARM is available for evaluation at:
http://www.ittia.com/products/evaluation

Free Video to Learn About ITTIA DB SQL architecture and features in few minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svsnXuMGxq0

About ITTIA
ITTIAEmbedded System offers database solutions for platforms where limited memory, storage, and processing power makes software development challenging. ITTIA develops fast, high performance database products and tools with the goal of providing excellent data management software for embedded systems and devices. ITTIA products are designed to be suitable for application development and deployment at a significantly reduced cost. ITTIA customers include GlaxoSmithKline, VNU, Boeing, Moodys, Sandia National Laboratory, Puget Sound Energy and others. You can obtain more information about ITTIA at:www.ittia.com.

上週末剛結束第二梯次的亞瑟士42K夢想達成馬拉松訓練營，許績勝老師傳授了寶貴的知識，課程一開始就提到受傷的問題，如果有跑步傷痛，原因有3個：1. 跑步技術、跑姿有問題，2.跑步配備有問題，3. 身體的能力沒提昇。

其實，跑步不只要讓體能和技術提升，吸收知識也很重要，現在大家都在倡導「聰明訓練Smart Trianing」，許績勝老師在跑步生涯裡從來不受傷，他的祕訣就是：熱身1小時，收操不到1小時也有40分鐘，可見跑步常識有多重要。下面教練將會帶著助教國立台灣體育運動大學的選手蘇嘉涵和蘇鳳婷，幫大家示範跑姿和訓練技巧。

跑步基本技術

軀幹：身體從腳到頭頂成一直線，輕鬆微「前傾」可以省力，錯誤姿勢會做成「前彎」，這樣容易受傷也很費力，兩眼直視前下方（約10公尺）。

手臂：拳頭上擺至胸線，後擺至腰際，不用像短跑擺動幅度這麼大，輕鬆前後擺動，記得手臂放在兩側，不要左右晃動。

腿部：膝蓋往前提腳不能往上提，腿部下擺向下後推蹬。腳掌著地時出力，盡量全腳掌著地，向後提起腳後跟，最後會成為慣性動力。

呼吸：以鼻子為主、嘴巴為輔，如果用嘴巴呼吸很容易口乾、口渴，路程中要喝很多水，自然順暢為原則。訣竅： 2呼、2吸是常見的呼吸方式，「很多人其實觀念是錯的，真正的方式是跑2步吸1口氣，跑2步吐1口氣。」許教練說。

「上坡跑」和「逆風跑」可以加大前傾角度，步輻稍微縮小，加快步頻，手稍擺快；「下坡跑」和「順風跑」上半身為微上揚，手擺幅縮小到胸前擺動。跑步最基本的要求就是省力，所以技巧和姿勢很重要，在練習中調整，「以前我練跆拳道造成跑步步輻太大，出腳2公尺，教練叫我改小一點，我花了1年時間改小。」許教練說，所以練習是不二法門，想辦法確實做到5個訣竅：正確、放鬆、自然、協調、順暢。

營養常識

全方位攝取。蛋白質（動、植物）、碳水化合物、脂肪、水分、魚類、肉類（紅肉）、豆類、堅果、蔬菜…。「很多人覺得吃素健康，但其實養分應該全方位攝取。跑步損傷要靠肉類蛋白質修補，就像我在日本剛開始不敢吃納豆、生菜、起司，這些都是很有營養的。」許教練說。

基本裝備

穿著輕薄舒適透氣，鞋子平常練習和比賽鞋要有區分，手錶可以挑有計時功能字幕大的。

身體生理的訓練

很多人平常都是耐力跑，但如果想讓成績進步，就必須訓練速度，例如：反覆跑、間歇跑、法特雷克跑。

★ 舉例：100公尺反覆跑，個人PB：20秒，用80％（20秒＋20×0.2秒＝24秒）速度跑。100公尺跑完後快走100公尺（30-60秒），10趟一組跑2-5組，每跑一組休息2-5分鐘，休息時心跳降到90-120。

還有很重要的肌力訓練，當然也可以將訓練融入生活中，隨時隨地訓練。「跑步是全身性的運動。」許績勝說，所以肌力訓練也是跑步訓練的一環，接下來許教練會幫大家示範段練肌力的環式訓練，通常有8-10項3組，每一項之間休息60-90秒，每組之間休息5-10分鐘。

1. 跨步走20公尺：

往前跨出去，後大腿跟地面平行，前腳膝蓋呈90度，推蹬起身兩腳交替前進。

2. 仰臥起坐20次：

這是進階版的V型仰臥起坐，上半身和下半身同時往上抬起。

3. 跳繩100下。

4. 伏地挺身20次：

跪姿

進階的抬腿版

5. 俯臥躬身20次：

找一位搭擋幫忙壓住腳，擺盪幅度大一點，身體盡量抬高。如果自己做的時候，雙手在背後抓住，可以把雙腳放在沙發下，就可以完成。

6. 提腿跑30秒：

從步頻快微幅的小跑步開始，慢慢提高大腿的高度，提高到90度為止。

7. 擺臂100次。

8. 波比操10次：4個步驟。

蹲下手觸地

雙腳往後呈現伏地挺身姿勢

蹲下手觸地

往上跳身體打直拍手，觸地時膝蓋彎曲

挑戰馬拉松注意事項

★ 目標堅定：一定要跑完全程。

★ 練多少跑多少：「不要像看到很久不見的好朋友一樣，一起跑就衝出去。」許教練說，這樣跑不完全程的喔！

★ 賽前3個小時吃完早餐，吃的東西選擇清淡不油膩不刺激性的食物（碳水化合物為主）。「我跑高雄馬拉松的時候，早上6點起跑，凌晨2點先起來吃早餐，在做休息，這是正確的。」許績勝說「我曾經在台北跑馬拉松，跑步前只吃吐司配甘蔗汁，跑到最後腳軟；也不要在比賽前喝柳橙汁，喝完柳橙汁胃會呈酸性的，可能跑到一半會吐。」

★ 適當的穿著、配備：易摩擦處塗抹凡士林、貼透氣防水OK繃…。

★ 中古比賽用鞋：剛講到比賽鞋和練習鞋分開，當然也不能穿全新的鞋子出去比賽，穿到9分新以下再去跑。

★ 綁鞋帶影片示範：http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBI5B1ng1as

★ 取水重點：拿水杯時以食指、中指和大拇指抓水，拿到時杯口朝前，之後快速回正，喝水前把杯口壓扁，才不容易灑出去。

★ 最重要的一點：心情愉快，享受全程42K。

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