By Brad Stewart – Welcome to another installment of Hacking the Hardware. In this blog, I’ll continue from where I left off the last time when I constructed (or hacked together) an RF board to interface with the Freescale Mechatronics Robot (FMR).
But first, some clarification is in order. Many of you have asked about not being able to find the StickOS IDE for the PC. The simple explanation is that it doesn’t exist. Why? Because StickOS is 100 percent resident on the Freescale Mechatronics Robot’s “brain”—a MCF52259 ColdFire MCU. All you need is a terminal program to communicate with it. No IDE required. Read More »
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By Erich Styger – Yes, the Eclipse IDE is a very visual and GUI-oriented framework. But this does not mean that everything is mouse oriented. While hammering in code, my hands are on the keyboard. Since I do as much as possible with the keyboard, I use any and all keyboard shortcuts available. The good news is that the Eclipse framework comes with a great set of built-in shortcuts. Here is my list of my favorite hotkeys and shortcuts Read More »
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By Steven Dean – Only 2.2 million patients worldwide were using a home monitoring service based on equipment with integrated connectivity in 2011, but more than 200 million people in Europe and the US suffer chronic disease that could be handled at home rather than the hospital with remote monitoring, according to the Administration on Aging (AOA). That’s why eDevice chose the Freescale home health hub reference platform for its new HealthGO technology platform for remote patient monitoring, which was announced at the 17th Annual American Telemedicine Association (ATA) exposition. Read More »
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By John Dixon – The term ‘multithreading’ is a generic description of the method used to increase the utilization of a single core with thread level as well as instruction level parallelism. In my conversations with multiple customers on this topic following our recent QorIQ Advanced Multiprocessing (AMP) series announcements, including the T4240 based on the 64-bit e6500 dual-threaded Power Architecture® core, the performance factor of dual threading versus single thread performance is perceived to be around 1.3 times than that of a single-core or single-threaded implementation. This is largely due to vendors, such as Intel and Netlogic, outputting this range of performance with their multithreading implementations. Read More »
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(This is the first article in a series about the scripting CodeWarrior Eclipse tools. Post a comment – let me know if this is helpful. I’d also like to know about other topics that you want to hear more about.)
By Erich Styger – Writing code should be fun, and often it is. However, because I rarely get things right the first time, reality often intrudes: I have to debug the misbehaving stuff. I am forced to switch mental gears — often with the gnashing and stripping of cog teeth — into debug mode. Some code bugs are simple to track down and correct, but occasionally the bug only bites after the program has gone through some complex gyrations. While the CodeWarrior Eclipse IDE with its GUI is a great thing, sometimes you need a command line interface that can automate the process of running the embedded application up to its problem point. Read More »
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By Steven Dean – Exciting times! I had the distinct opportunity to speak at OCTANe’s Semiconductor Technologies and Medical Devices panel in Irvine, California, recently. The diverse audience participated in a lively discussion on a variety of topics, from wireless sensor technology to healthcare reimbursement climate. Moderated by Luis Vasquez of OCTANe, the panel was shared with Stephen Swift, Senior VP and GM of Microsemi Medical Products Group, and Anand Sampath, Masimo Executive Vice President of Engineering – a great group!
I was selfishly proud when Anand demonstrated Masimo’s newest pulse oximeter with non-invasive MET Hemoglobin capability based on Freescale’s i.MX53 applications processor, which has received FDA 510K approval in 11 months — a record time. Product launch is expected soon. Read More »
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April 23, 2012 – 11:22 am
By Tom Thompson — 
One thing is certain in the semiconductor industry: when you make powerful and robust microprocessor units (MPUs), our creative customers use them in all sorts of places to solve thorny design problems. Because of their low power consumption, array of I/O interfaces and computational prowess, Freescale MPUs have found their way into all sorts of interesting applications over the decades, including anti-lock braking systems, vehicle power trains, factory automation machinery, and medical equipment.
However, recently I discovered that a Freescale processor is planned for use in a place that is really out of this world. Fraunhofer FIRST has selected the Freescale QorIQ P4080 MPU as the smarts in a guidance system being developed for future spacecraft. Yes, you heard that right: rocket science stuff. Read More »
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