November 1, 2011 – 12:58 pm
By Jim Trudeau – Earlier this year at the Freescale Technology Forum we ran a very successful Make It Challenge on site in San Antonio, Texas. Our customers showed remarkable ingenuity using a variety of Freescale platforms and partner enablement technologies to produce marvelous, sometimes whimsical, and always innovative creations. UPDATE: Winners announced (Nov. 16) [...]
September 29, 2011 – 8:23 am
By Donnie Garcia — Of all the devices that I’ve owned, my favorite was a Polar heart rate monitor. After many sedentary years, I decided to join a gym and use the monitor to store my heart rate information, giving me the ability to track and review my workouts. It was a very nice feature [...]
By Marc Osajda I participated in a panel that discussed automotive security at the Fully Networked Car workshop in Geneva last week. The workshop was organized by three international standards organizations (ITU, ISO and IEC), which offered an ideal backdrop to discuss trends, opportunities and standard evolutions in the domain of future connected vehicles. In [...]
By Cherif Assad The debate for performance has always been a passionate one in the engineering community. In the semiconductor industry, nearly every competitor claims to have the most innovate architecture that offers the highest performance. Let’s make an attempt to sort out the requirements of a relative performance evaluation. The intrinsic core performance and [...]
By Cherif Assad
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Posted in Automobility, Freescale, The Embedded Beat
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Also tagged ECU, EEMBC, engine control unit, fuel injection, Green Hills, McLaren Electronics, MPC5674F, NASCAR, Power Architecture, Qorivva
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January 25, 2011 – 4:42 pm
By Eric Gregori Seeing the terms “Linux/WinCE” in the same sentence as “8-bit” probably comes as a surprise to most people. As the title, “It takes two to tango” suggests, 8-bit microcontroller units (MCUs) can actually make Linux and WinCE software application development easier. The trick is to divide and conquer the job. First, you [...]
By Eric Gregori
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Posted in Freescale, Software Meets Silicon, The Embedded Beat
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Also tagged 32-bit processor, 8-bit MCU, Android, Chumby, i.MX, Linux, Linux/WinCE, Power Architecture, real-time applications development
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November 25, 2010 – 8:35 am
By Cherif Assad Advances and innovation in electronics for powertrain have been plentiful and proven over the past few decades. In the last 15 years, regulations and standard emissions have accelerated the adoption of 32-bit automotive microcontrollers (MCUs). The requirements for accurate control of the injection and the combustion cycle were enabled, thanks to performance [...]
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