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Safety certified development tool for 32-bit RX MCUs
Renesas and IAR Systems have collaborated to offer an IEC 61508 functional safety compliant development tool for Renesas’ 32-bit RX microcontroller platform. IAR Embedded Workbench for RX incorporates high-performance compiler and debugger tools in an easy-to-use integrated development environment.
Securing the Internet of Things
Traditional network and endpoint protection mechanisms are struggling today to protect our corporate IT infrastructure and computers. Adding the projected billions of nodes that will constitute the Internet of Things exacerbate the problem dramatically. By John Blevins, Director of Product Marketing, LynuxWorks.
Choosing the right Road TO Success
Selecting a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) begins with an appreciation of its benefits, fundamental features and basic taxonomy; the cost incurred even when selecting a no-cost option. Daniel Stegeran, Technical Solutions Manager for Future Electronics (Romania), discusses in detail in this article from ES Design magazine.
The perfect pyramid of automation
A new interpretation of an old solution to understanding the architecture of control systems puts SCADA at its heart, to allow better control and decrease the cost of maintenance by storing and managing all data in a single control room. By Marco Zampolli, HMI Product Sales Manager for Advantech, & Maurice van der Aa, Industrial PC Product Sales Manager, for Advantech.
MCU development toolchain aids IEC 61508 compliance
IAR Systems and Renesas Electronics Europe have teamed up to offer a development toolchain for Renesas’ 32-bit RX microcontroller platform that facilitates compliance with the international umbrella standard for functional safety IEC 61508. The build chain of IAR Embedded Workbench for RX has been tested and approved according to the requirements on support tools put forth in IEC 61508, as well as the standard for automotive safety-related ...
IAR increase performance by 40% for TI MSP430 core
IAR System has today introduced IAR Embedded Workbench for MSP430 version 5.60, an embedded development toolchain which delivers leading benchmark results, increased by around 40%, for Texas Instruments’ MSP430 core. EEMBC CoreMark results published by Texas Instruments depict a score of 27.70 CoreMarks running at 25 MHz, resulting in a normalized score of 1.1 CoreMark/MHz.
Renesas Starter Kit for low-cost HMI applications
MSC announce the availability of the Renesas Starter Kit for the RZ/A1 group of microprocessors, enabling a quick start into the development of cost-sensitive, compact Human Machine Interface applications. Launched in June 2013 with on chip SRAM of 3 MB, 5 MB or 10 MB, the RZ/A1 group of MPUs can drive displays up to 1280x768 pixels resolution without the need for external RAM.
RTL Complier expands physically aware RTL synthesis capabilities
The new Encounter RTL Compiler version 13.1 from Cadence now includes a new suite of physically aware RTL synthesis capabilities. This new suite of physically aware RTL synthesis capabilities enables 15 percent improvement in power, performance and area on today’s most complex advanced node chip designs that face timing or congestion challenges. The new capabilities enable engineers to use physical aware techniques at the earliest phases o...
Functional safety software for industrial automation
Renesas announce development of a new functional safety software package for its 32-bit RX631 and RX63N microcontrollers. The new solution provides diagnostic software for the industry-leading RX CPU core, and its internal memory. Significantly reducing development time, it also includes a detailed safety manual for designs that need to conform to stringent safety directives for industrial equipment, such as safety controllers, PLCs, industrial m...
Wind River drives advanced rotorcraft development
Wind River has revealed that AgustaWestland is using Wind River VxWorks 653 Platform for its revolutionary "Project Zero" tilt rotor technology incubator. “Project Zero” is an unmanned all-electric tilt rotor, designed to hover like a helicopter and convert to a fixed wing aircraft in forward flight, giving insight into the future of advanced rotorcraft.