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ITRON Newsletter No.14
ITRON Technical Committee, TRON Association

Katsuta Building 5F, 3-39, Mita 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108, JAPANTEL: (03) 3454-3191
FAX: (03) 3454-3224
10:00{10:15am Opening remarks by the ITRONITRON-related Publications

Technical Committee chairman

Listed below are the publications prepared and issued
by the ITRON Technical Committee as of April 1,
1995. The ITRON-ITRON Standard Handbook isa one-volume compilation of ITRON (Ver 2.0) andITRON2 speci cations. Each of the publications below can be obtained directly from the sources indicated.
The latest version of ITRON3.0 is now Ver
3.02.00. Changes made since the ITRON3.0 Standard Handbook was released (Ver 3.00.00) are notedin Newsletter No.5 and No.11, as well as in ITRON
Standard Guidebook 2.
The recently issued ITRON Standard Guidebook 2,
which is a general introduction to the ITRON speci cations, deals primarily with ITRON3.0. Meanwhile, the earlier ITRON Standard Guidebook '92'93 remains as a valuable reference for use with theITRON (Ver 2.0) and ITRON2 speci cations, eventhough the dates in its title are now past.

10:15am{12:00 Compatibility of ITRON appli-cation programs
An update will be given on studies by theITRON Technical Committee on compatibility ofapplication programs across di erent ITRONspeci cation OSs, centering around the ITRONspeci cation OS compatibility checksheet.

1:15{2:15pm Development environments support-ing ITRON
Development support systems and tools available
for ITRON will be introduced. Among the topics planned for presentation are CASE tools supporting ITRON, tools for graphically indicating
system states, and support libraries.

2:15{3:15pm General presentations

Presentations are being solicited from outside theTRON Association, of which two or three will bechosen for inclusion in this session.

Schedule Announced for ITRON OpenSeminar

3:30{4:30pm New product introductions

As noted in the previous Newsletter, this year's
ITRON Open Seminar will be held Thursday, July
20, at the Shinagawa community center \Kurian" inTokyo's Shinagawa Ward (located one minute fromthe south exit of Oimachi Station on the JR Keihin
Tohoku line). The theme chosen for this seminar is thegrowing availability of \supportware" for ITRON. Theaim is to introduce the latest developments relating tothe ITRON speci cations, with emphasis on today's
environment for ITRON-speci cation OSs. Plans forthe seminar are outlined below.

This session will introduce the latest products relating to the ITRON speci cations.
4:30{5:30pm Invited speech

We plan to have TRON Project leader Ken Sakamura give a special lecture to conclude the seminar.
At the time this Newsletter was being prepared,
nal details were still being worked out with regard
to the program, speakers, attendance fee and application method. Please contact the TRON Association atTEL (03)-3454-3191 or FAX (03)-3454-3224 to receive
the latest information on the ITRON Open Seminar.
We hope all interested persons will attend this important event again this year.

Date: Thursday, July 20, from 10:00am to 5:30pm
Place: Shinagawa community center \Kurian"
Attendance: limited to 100 persons
Program (tentative):y This newsletter is reprinted from TRONWARE vol.33 andTRON PROJECT BIMONTHLY No.38.

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ITRON-related Publications

NameType
Price
Publisher
IssuedISBN No.
ITRON-ITRON Standard Handbook Speci cation (Jap.)
4,800Yen Personal Media Co. 1990 4-89362-079-7
ITRON3.0 Standard Handbook
Speci cation (Jap.)
4,000Yen Personal Media Co. 1993 4-89362-106-8
ITRON/FILE Standard Handbook
Speci cation (Jap.)
3,000Yen Personal Media Co. 1992 4-89362-092-4
ITRON Standard Guidebook '92-'93
Textbook (Jap.)
3,500Yen Personal Media Co. 1992 4-89362-197-6
ITRON Standard Guidebook 2Textbook (Jap.)
3,500Yen Personal Media Co. 1994 4-89362-133-5
ITRON Speci cation Ver 2.01.00.00 Speci cation (Eng.) 12,000Yen TRON Association 1989
{ITRON2 Speci cation Ver 2.02.00.10
Speci cation (Eng.) 15,000Yen TRON Association1990{
ITRON3.0 Speci cation Ver 3.00.00 Speci cation (Eng.){TRON Association1994{NOTES:- Prices do not include consumption tax.
- The documents issued by the TRON Association are available to Association members at a special discount rate.
- English-language speci cations can be obtained via the Internet from utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.11.11] withanonymous ftp. The usage of anonymous ftp is explained in Newsletter No.8.
Recent Works on ITRONThe January 1995 issue of Interface Magazine hasa special feature on embedded system programming,
giving both basic knowledge and practical tips. Section 5 on \Basic knowledge for embedding a realtime OS" presents some basic examples of programming methods using a real-time OS. It examines ashort program, comparing its use with an ITRON1speci cation OS, a ITRON-speci cation OS, and theC/OS (a freely distributed small-scale real-time OS).
RTP'95, a workshop on real-time processing, took
place this past March 23 and 24 at the Toyonaka campus of Osaka University. In an ITRON-related presentation, Hiroaki Takada of the University of Tokyo reada paper entitled, \A Scalable Real-time Kernel for
Asymmetrical Multiprocessor Systems." This paper
discussed an extension of the ITRON3.0-speci cation
OS to multiprocessor systems, introducing a methodfor achieving scalability when the number of processors is increased. Another presentation at the workshop, by Akira Hamaya of NASDA on \Embedded
Guidance Control Software in Future Spacecraft," reported on the use of an ITRON-speci cation OS in asimulation program, as part of the research on guidance control software for space living environments.
These Real-Time Processing workshops are held eachyear as computer system study conferences sponsoredby the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, with the papers published inadvance as IEICE Transactions.

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