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 [...]
By Tom Thompson – No, this article is not about a missing Lord of the Rings movie. (Although that would be cool.) It’s about the fact that Freescale microcontrollers (MCUs) and microprocessor units (MPUs) based on Power Architecture technology are now part of the designer’s toolkit when using the Freescale Tower System platform for embedded systems development.
February 14, 2012 – 8:56 am
By Tom Thompson Update March 26, 2012 – The Xtrinsic Touch Sensing Platform won a UBM Electronics ACE (Annual Creativity in Electronics) Award in the Human-Machine Interface Technology category. Take a glance around you. Whether you are on a bus, in an office, or at the mall, it’s a safe bet that your gaze will [...]
Posted in Freescale, Software Meets Silicon, The Embedded Beat
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Tagged capacitve screen, CRTouch, gesture recognition, multi-touch, pinch gesture, pinch to zoom, resistive screen, swipe gesture, touch screen, Xtrinsic
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November 15, 2011 – 8:23 am
By Tom Thompson — Embedded programming is a high-wire balancing act. Often you are trying to accomplish as much you can, while scrambling to conserve every possible processor cycle and byte of storage. That is because an embedded system has little flash memory, even less RAM, and is often powered by a battery. Occasionally, you [...]
October 18, 2011 – 12:04 pm
By Tom Thompson – Let’s face it: Debugging embedded system software is a dark art. No, I don’t mean the kind of dark art that happens occasionally in the Harry Potter movies—although a programmer struggling to exorcise a particularly nasty bug might think that they had a curse placed on them. What I mean by “dark” [...]
October 10, 2011 – 12:26 pm
By Tom Thompson – Recently I described how Freescale’s CodeWarrior software tools, in combination with P&E Microcomputer Systems’ Multilink Universal run control device, function as a Swiss army knife for the embedded systems developer. What makes this possible is that CodeWarrior for MCUs v10.1 allows you to write software for a large number of MCUs, [...]
September 26, 2011 – 9:22 am
By Tom Thompson – When working in Freescale Tech Support, you get exposed to the entire range of silicon parts that Freescale makes. That can be a challenge because Freescale makes a lot of different parts: all you have to do is take a glimpse at the Microcontrollers page on the Freescale site to see [...]
Posted in Freescale, Software Meets Silicon, The Embedded Beat
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Tagged ARM, CodeWarrior, ColdFire, embedded software, Freescale, Freescale MCU, Kinetis MCU, Microcontrollers, Power Architecture, Qorivva
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