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Cadence: FreeRTOS now available
for Tensilica processors
Cadence Design Systems announced that the
FreeRTOS real-time operating system is now
available for Cadence Tensilica processors
and digital signal processors. FreeRTOS is a
popular, scalable, easy-to-use real-time ker-
nel designed speci cally for small, low-power
embedded systems. According to a 2013 mar-
ket share study from UBM Tech, FreeRTOS
had been selected for 13 percent of embed-
ded projects that utilize an embedded operat-
ing system (OS), and is a very popular option
for microcontrollers as well as smaller 32-bit
processor cores.
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Kithara: real-time Image processing
with OpenCV
Kithara So ware has successfully nished the
real-time support of the open source function
library OpenCV within the company’s own
real-time extension, allowing for an immedi-
ate reaction to the processing of image data.
e combination of OpenCV 3.0 and the
»RealTime Suite« is a signi cant step, since
it incorporates the widespread use of the free
program library with the increasing necessity
of strict response times for machine vision.
is way for instance, AVX2 can be utilized
in real-time.
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Maxim: evaluate industrial sensors faster
with quad IO-Link master reference design
Designers now have a single platform to
develop their own IO-Link master and mul-
tiple industrial sensors. e MAXREFDES79#
fromMaxim Integrated Products, allows man-
ufacturers to bring IO-Link factory automa-
tion designs to market faster. As the rst ever
IO-Link master reference design, MAXREF-
DES79# reduces the cost and time required
to develop and evaluate both IO-Link master
and IO-Link sensor systems.
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Micro Digital: SMX RTOS now available
for Renesas RZ/A1 ARM Cortex-A9
Micro Digital o ers SMX RTOS support for
the RZ/A1 group of ARM Cortex-A9 micro-
processors from Renesas.
is includes
immediate availability of the smx real-time
multitasking kernel, smxWiFi 802.11a/b/g/i/n
wireless stack, smxNS TCP/IP stack, smxNS6
dual IPv4/IPv6 TCP/IP stack, smxUSBH USB
host stack, smxUSBD USB device stack, and
smxFS FAT le system.
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Microsemi: SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA
dual-axis motor control kit
Microsemi announced availability of its
SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA dual-axis motor
control kit with a modular motor control IP
suite and reference design.
e kit, which
simpli es motor control designs using a sin-
gle SoC FPGA, accelerates time to market and
is scalable across multiple industries such as
industrial, aerospace and defense. Typical
applications include factory and process auto-
mation, robotics, transportation, avionics and
defense motor control platforms.
e SoC
integration of system functions helps to lower
total cost of ownership.
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Mouser: rapid-prototyping kit for TI’s
new MSP432P401R microcontrollers
Mouser Electronics is now stocking the
MSP-EXP432P401R LaunchPad Evaluation
Kit from Texas Instruments. This new TI
LaunchPad is an easy-to-use rapid-proto-
typing kit for TI’s new MSP432P401R micro-
controllers featuring 256KBytes of Flash
and 64K of SRAM. The new TI MSP432
microcontroller family is based on a low
power ARM Cortex M4F and draws as lit-
tle as 800nA in low power mode, with a run
current of 95µA/MHz. The MSP432P401R
32 bit microcontroller supports speeds up
to 48MHz and has integrated peripherals
for communication, ADC, timers, and AES
encryption.
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SEGGER: SmartMSD makes USB file
transfer easy
SEGGER’s new Smart Mass Storage Device
(SmartMSD) uses the proven MSD standard
to easily stream les to and from USB devices.
A simple Drag and Drop is all it takes.
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active le system technology employed in
SmartMSD is unique. Once the USB device
is connected to the host, les can be read or
written to the application without the need for
dedicated storage memory.
e SmartMSD
so ware analyzes what operation is performed
by the host and passes this to the application
layer of the embedded target, which then
performs the appropriate action.
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TI-RTOS 2.12 introduces advanced
power management capabilities
Simplifying so ware development for con-
nected applications has become more import-
ant as the IoT continues to encompass a
greater range of everyday products. Texas
Instruments announces key updates to its
complete real-time operating system, which
brings the ease-of-use associated with power
management operations in high-level operat-
ing systems, such as Android and Windows,
to embedded MCU-based applications. As a
result, using TI-RTOS 2.12, developers can
easily leverage the power management fea-
tures built into TI devices to create IoT appli-
cations with a longer battery life.
