•    Industry’s favourite real time kernel for microcontrollers enhances functionality
•    Adds comprehensive support for the new Renesas RX62N.
•    To be demonstrated running on RX62N MCUs at Renesas DevCon.

The release of FreeRTOS version 6.1 has been announced today by Real Time Engineers Ltd.

The first public demonstration of it in action will be at the Renesas DevCon on the 11th October, where Renesas will present a FreeRTOS training course. This follows three new ports being created for Renesas’ new RX62N microcontrollers. … Read More → "FreeRTOS 6.1 unveiled"

Bernin, France, October 11, 2010 — Soitec (Euronext Paris), the world’s leading supplier of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and advanced solutions for the electronics and energy industries, announced today that its Concentrix Solar division focusing on concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) systems, has concluded a global alliance with Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI), the global leader in delivering products, services and solutions that increase energy efficiency in buildings. 

Johnson Controls provides turnkey project development, engineering, procurement, construction, operation and maintenance of large scale energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. Under this collaboration, Johnson Controls and Concentrix Solar will identify and … Read More → "Soitec announces global alliance with Johnson Controls to capture utility scale solar energy projects"

MILPITAS, CA – October 11, 2010 – Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC2911 three-channel supply monitor with power-fail warning for low voltage systems down to 0.5V.  In certain applications, monitoring the main input supply is just as important as monitoring the intermediate bus voltages in order to provide the host an early warning of supply failure and signal shutdown procedures.  The LTC2911 offers a power-fail input and output to support this function, in addition to three voltage inputs, with 1.5% threshold accuracy over the entire operating temperature range.

The LTC2911 is … Read More → "Precision Triple Supply Supervisor Provides Early Power-Fail Detection"

SANTA BARBARA, CA — October 8, 2010 — Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced that they are a worldwide co-sponsor of a series of nine full-day seminars RTI is holding across the U.S., Canada, Germany and Israel in October and November, 2010. The free DDS road show teaches how the Data Distribution Service (DDS) middleware standard can:

• Reduce software lifecycle costs—development, integration, testing and upgrades—with a data-centric architecture
• Dramatically increase the scalability and performance of systems with peer-to-peer, embedded messaging
• Slash deployment … Read More → "Green Hills Software to Co-Sponsor Free Worldwide RTI DDS Seminar Series"

Antwerp, Belgium, 1 October 2010 – At Vision 2010, CMOSIS will introduce a new member of its standard high-end CMOS image sensor family: the 4.2 megapixel CMV4000E12. The new off-the-shelf image sensor features a square 5.5 x 5.5 µm (2048 x 2048) pixel format. It offers high NIR sensitivity, low noise, central shutter and full frame rate of 180 fps. The CMV4000 is perfectly suited for advanced applications in the visible and near infrared spectrum. CMOSIS exhibits in Hall 4/Booth D78. 

The new CMOSIS CMV4000E12 realizes a dynamic … Read More → "CMOSIS Offers 4.2 Megapixel/180 fps CMOS Image Sensor for the Near Infrared"

Munich, September 2010 – A high computing power coupled with low energy consumption characterizes DSM Computer’s Galaxy® G1-A control cabinet computer that was specially developed for the industrial automation. The box IPC is based on the performance-optimized, energy-saving D510 Intel® Atom™ Dual Core processor that runs with a clock rate of 1.66 GHz and integrates 1 MB L2 cache (each processor 512 KB). The maximum system memory capacity is 4 GB. The Intel® 801HM I/O controller (ICH8M) is used as chip set. The graphic for this new generation is integrated … Read More → "High-performance box IPC with two cores in control cabinet format"

Paris, France, September 28, 2010 — RF Micro Devices (Nasdaq GS: RFMD), a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, today announced the introduction of the RFUV5945A during the European Microwave Week (EuMW) 2010 Conference. The RFUV5945A I/Q up-converter is the newest addition to RFMD’s rapidly growing portfolio of innovative components for microwave and millimeter wave radio applications. It is ideally suited for a variety of end markets, including point-to-point microwave radio, military radio, VSAT, and test and measurement.

Bob Van Buskirk, president of RFMD’s … Read More → "RFMD Expands Product Portfolio Targeting Microwave And Millimeter Wave Applications"

Cheshire, UK – 6^th October 2010 – Kane Computing Ltd (KCL) are pleased to announce that Sundance, the leading supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing and reconfigurable FPGA systems has recorded its centenary product landmark for the PC/104 Embedded Computing specification.  With the only solutions that combine FPGA and Power-PC440 with PCI Express for PC/104, Sundance has optimized the range to focus on High-Speed Data Acquisition, Image Processing and Communications applications.

The Sundance Series 1 is the industry’s first product family architected around Xilinx multi-platform Virtex-5 devices with embedded PowerPC processor … Read More → "Sundance first to combine FPGA and Power-PC440 with PCI Express for PC/104"