Real Time Engineers has announced FreeRTOS+IO and FreeRTOS+CLI support for NXP’s LPC1700 series, which is based around the ARM Cortex-M3. “LPC1700 microcontrollers are first to be supported by FreeRTOS+IO and FreeRTOS+CLI extensions,” said NXP. “Under an agreement between NXP and Real Time Engineers, the FreeRTOS+IO peripheral driver interface and FreeRTOS+CLI command line interpreter will be available for use free of ...

One to note, as a historic flag in the sand perhaps... IT-Pro Portal is reporting that China - not the US - now has the largest number of Android and iOS activations.

Microsemi has announced the availability of an LCD display reference design for industrial and medical applications based on its SmartFusion FPGA-based system-o

At the 1996 Microprocessor Forum Intel Founder, Chairman, and CEO Gordon Moore described the genesis of the microprocessor.

Movea has teamed with Nordic Semiconductor to develop a 2.4GHz RF remote control reference design which incorporates its motion sense technology. Called the nRFready Smart Remote, it is a hardware and software reference design to provide browsing control of Internet-enabled and Web 2.0-enabled TVs and set-top boxes. “As TVs are becoming smarter, streaming content from several sources, offering new applications and games, the need ...

Google and Android is often criticised for not being open enough, but here is an extreme rival perspective.

Just noticed this post on the The Official Google Blog , and thought I could file it in our Digital Life category – Google officially opening its Campus London to help cluster high-tech startups… London has become one of the world’s great digital capitals. The Internet accounts for eight percent of the U.K. economy and has become, in these days ...

“The use of FPGA technology to accelerate network processing applications is a high growth area,” said Allan Cantle, president and founder of Nallatech

We don't do April Fools on Electronics Weekly but if we did... I hope it would be like this! Wired.com flagged this effort from last year - a "PolyTheremin" from Moog - and it's well worth sharing.

For anyone who has endured the hair-tearingly awful log-in procedures on data dongles, now comes a benefit for the human race.