By Andy Mastronardi – The Freescale Cup is a global competition where teams of up to three students build, program, and race an autonomous intelligent model car around a track for speed. The fastest car to complete the track wins. More than 200 undergraduate students from Czech Republic, France, Germany, Poland, Romania, Russia and Slovakia [...]
November 7, 2011 – 7:59 am
By Rainer Makowitz — After the malware attacks on mobile devices running the Android operating system, speculations about automotive viruses have soared again. Compared to IT and telecom, the plague of car viruses has not (yet) arrived in the automotive industry. Open networks appeared in IT in 1985, and appeared in telecom 15 years later. [...]
October 25, 2011 – 10:01 am
By Jim Trudeau – Sometimes real gems are hiding in plain sight. We are bombarded by data, and who knows what brilliant discoveries we miss in the cacophony of noise. A friend might point out something. “Hey, have you seen…” and call our attention to an item. We take a look and, lo and behold, that [...]
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 [...]
By Tom Thompson
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Posted in Freescale, Software Meets Silicon, The Embedded Beat
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Also tagged ARM, CodeWarrior, ColdFire, embedded software, Freescale, Freescale MCU, Kinetis MCU, Microcontrollers, Power Architecture
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September 13, 2011 – 10:42 am
By Marc Osajda — If you want to help contribute to reducing road fatalities in your country, this post is for you. Ninety percent of the 1.3 million people killed annually in road fatalities occur in developing countries, according to the World Health Organization (source: Global Status on road safety 2009). With the increased demand [...]
August 23, 2011 – 12:36 pm
See also part 1, “Calling all petrolheads: Configurable aftermarket ECUs for sale!” By Mike Garrard – Thanks to your support, the configurable aftermarket ECU based on Qorivva MCUs is now an approved plan at Freescale. Excellent! I have done my best to take your comments on board and assess other industry examples. In particular, I have [...]
By Mike Garrard — At a recent Freescale employee gathering, I took the opportunity to film a brief clip of my Powertrain ECU demo. At its heart is our 4 cylinder cost-effective port injection gasoline engine reference design. It has generated significant interest. In fact, the dozen boards I ordered were allocated before they were [...]
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