Embedded Systems

Open source embedded development platform firm Arduino has announced a collaboration agreement with Intel and launched a board during Maker Faire Rome (October 3-6, 2013). Arduino said the Galileo board is the first product in a new family of Arduino-certified boards featuring Intel architecture. The Galileo development board can be used for prototyping interactive designs like LED light displays that respond to social media, or for tackling ...

FreeRTOS has been given Internet-of-Things (IoT) capability, in less than 23kbyte on a microcontroller. This is not much memory as serving web pages from a device generally requires it to run a TCP/IP stack and have some form of file system. The key to delivering web pages from such a small footprint is to shift heavy user-interface processing to the ...

Real Time Engineers has added cloud hosting services support to its FreeRTOS through a partnership with Nabto. The result is FreeRTOS+Nabto, which is a small (less than 23kbit including FreeRTOS and the IP stack) piece of C code that, when integrated into an embedded networked device, allows that device to be remotely accessed and controlled through a rich web based interface or intelligent data acquisition system. ...

Programmable chip suppliers and design tool firms must continue to raise the level of design abstraction, by supporting standards that allow abstraction, as well as creating high level design flows. The ability to disregard information is crucial to the human condition; without this inherent function (a defensive mechanism known as Latent Inhibition) our brains could easily be overwhelmed by sensory ...

Maxim Integrated Products says it is possible to retrofit IP security technology to microcontroller based designs. It has introduced a secure encryption IC which sits alongside the host controller to authenticate peripherals or embedded designs. It also offers encrypted bidirectional communications from the microcontroller. Maxim sees an obvious need for greater levels of IP security embedded in the hardware, be it in a IT data centre or ...

Microchip has added analogue blocks including a high-resolution and fast ADCs, to its 16bit PIC24 series of microcontrollers. Called the PIC24FJ128GC010, the chip integrates a 16-bit ?? ADC, a 10Msample/s 12bit pipeline ADC, twin 10bit DACs (http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/39615A.pdf), dual op-amps, USB-on-the-go, and a 472 segment LCD driver. ?? performance is 976sample/s at highest quality, and 62.5ksample/s at highest speed. The data ...

Xilinx  is working with MathWorks and National Instruments to offer IP-based design environments for its Zynq system-on-chip FPGA devices. The design tools offer graphical and text-based programming languages such as C, C++, SystemC, and will soon support OpenCL (Open Computing Language). Xilinx is developing a system-level, Eclipse-based heterogeneous parallel programming environment that supports software-based programming, system verification, debug and automated implementation for C/C++ and OpenCL.s an ...

XMOS has introduced a design starter kit based on the high performance xCORE-USB device family, the 16-core XS1-U16-128. Equipped with an integrated High Speed USB 2.0 PHY, the device supports 480Mbps data rates and USB Audio Class 2. The xCORE-USB sliceKIT includes a USB sliceCARD with USB A and USB B connectors, delivering a complete embedded processing platform for USB applications. It ...

AMD has signed a deal to embed the Trustonic Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), <t-base, into its CPUs and into what it calls ‘accelerated processing units (APUs) – for PCs, tablets and other processor markets The aim to give owners of future AMD-inside devices hardware-backed secure access to banking, payment, entertainment and content services. “AMD APUs and CPUs will unlock a ...

Freescale has opened the lid on plans for its ARM-based i.MX rags if microcontrollers, which it said have been “especially popular among automotive customers, with eight of the world’s top 10 automotive OEMs today leveraging i.MX processors for their advanced driver information systems platforms”. According to the firm: during the next 18 months: There will be an i.MX 8 series ...