Design
Sensor development kits accelerate IoT system design
Accelerating the design of environmental and biometric sensing applications for IoT products, Silicon Labs has announced two development kits. The kits are suited for applications including home security systems, smart thermostats, smoke detectors, weather stations, smart watches, fitness bands, heart-rate earphones and other wearable products.
Rotate a brushless AC motor in less than one minute
Designed to drive any 3-phase PMSM (Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor), Renesas has introduced the RX111 inverter reference solution kits. Enabling engineers to save time, these motor control kits eliminate the need to tune motor parameters and evaluate the best tuning algorithm coefficients.
Embedded database improves QNX performance
Improving both performance and usability on QNX, the ITTIA DB SQL for QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.6 has been launched. The embedded database offers broad flexibility and scalability to address a wide range of embedded system and mobile device developer requirements, with the choice of on-disk, in-memory, and hybrid storage options.
RTOS enables designers to sieze IoT opportunities
A tool offering seamless integration with the Wind River VxWorks 7 RTOS has been released by Vector Software. VectorCAST tools, combined with the VxWorks 7 RTOS allows software tests to be built and run in the same environment that the final application will be deployed.
RTOS's tickless support reduces MCU power consumption
Supporting the increased efficiency and reduced power consumption required for modern embedded systems, SEGGER has added tickless low power support to its embOS RTOS. Stopping the periodic system tick interrupt during idle periods, the new support enables the timer to be reprogrammed to spend as much time as possible in low power mode.
FTDI & MCCI collaborate on embedded USB host stack
FTDI Chip and MCCI have collaborated to produce an embedded USB host stack which is designed for use with FTDI Chip’s FT900 product family. The TrueTask USB high performance, production-ready embedded USB host stack supports the highly integrated FT900 series of application-focused microcontrollers.
Parallel processing software shortens simulation run-times
Parallel processing software, claimed to speed up the development of beam particles, has been released by Cobham Technical Services. The 3D Space Charge module is an addition to the company's Opera-3d suite of electromagnetic and multi-physics design tools, which use finite element (FE) analysis to compute the physical interaction of charged particles with electrostatic or magnetostatic fields.
IEC61508 certified software reduces risk for designers
The IEC61508 (Functional Safety) certification has been obtained by Renesas Electronic's RX631, RX63N Safety Package. The package features a self-diagnostic software and safety manual for MCUs necessary to implement functional safety in industrial equipment. An evaluation kit will be available in September 2014, providing a hardware evaluation board with the RX63N MCU, the evaluation version of the self-diagnostic softwar...
Digital signature software prevents cloning
EmSecure, a digital signature software package designed specifically for embedded systems, has been released by SEGGER Microcontroller. Featuring a selection of easy-to-use functions, the software package allows the developer to easily add a digital signature to a product.
Controller and PHY IP utilised by 00m+ production SoCs
DesignWare USB 3.0 Controller and PHY IP, manufactured by Synopsys, has shipped more than 100m production SoCs used in mobile computing, digital home and cloud computing applications. The DesignWare USB 3.0 Controller and PHY IP has been integrated into the SoCs of products from more than 60 companies, including Microsoft's XBOX One.