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Express Logic and IAR Systems team up to deliver development solutions for commercial applications in consumer, medical, and industrial devices

March 2, 2010 – Embedded World, Nuremberg, Germany — Express Logic, Inc., a worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), and IAR Systems, a leading provider of software tools for embedded systems, today announced a commercial-grade integration for developers of serious applications. The integration combines Express Logic’s ThreadX® RTOS and IAR Embedded Workbench® IDE in a form that is easily used out-of-the box by developers of embedded applications. Both Express Logic and IAR Systems products support most popular 32-bit architectures, including ARM’s ARM7, ARM9 and Cortex-M3, Freescale’s ColdFire, NEC’s V850, and Renesas’s H8. Now, developers … Read More → "Express Logic and IAR Systems team up to deliver development solutions for commercial applications in consumer, medical, and industrial devices"

Express Logic’s BenchX® IDE Supports Lauterbach’s TRACE32® Debugger

Embedded World, Nuremberg, Germany – Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced that Express Logic’s BenchX® IDC now supports debugging using Lauterbach’s TRACE32 debugger. BenchX is an Eclipse-based IDC adapted for use with embedded systems. Lauterbach’s TRACE32 in-circuit emulators and debuggers are powerful development tools for embedded systems. Together, BenchX and TRACE32 deliver robust functionality in an easy-to-use Eclipse-based IDE.

Express Logic’s BenchX was introduced in 2008 and was awarded honors for “Best In Show” at the Embedded Systems Conference. In 2009, BenchX was awarded the “Embedded AWARD” … Read More → "Express Logic’s BenchX® IDE Supports Lauterbach’s TRACE32® Debugger"

Aonix ObjectAda Real-Time released on VxWorks 653

Embedded World 2010, Nürnberg, Germany – 2nd – 4th March 2010 – Hall 11, Stand 119. Atego, the leading independent supplier of industrial-grade, modeling and development tools for complex, mission and safety-critical embedded systems and software, has announced the release of Aonix ObjectAda Real-Time for Windows targeting the Wind River VxWorks 653 multi-partition RTOS for PowerPC. This is the first release of the Aonix ObjectAda product with full Ada runtime support for the Wind River safety-critical platform.

“Aonix ObjectAda Real-Time for VxWorks 653 was developed to meet customer demand,” said James B. Gambrell, Executive Chairman at Atego. “Although Atego, formerly Aonix, has for years … Read More → "Aonix ObjectAda Real-Time released on VxWorks 653"

Energy Micro wins Embedded Award for energy friendly 32-bit microcontroller

Oslo, Norway, March 2nd, 2010 – Energy Micro® has received the coveted Embedded Award for Hardware at the Embedded World 2010 Exhibition & Conference for its EFM®32 Gecko energy friendly microcontroller.  The award was presented to Energy Micro President and CEO Geir Førre at the event’s opening ceremony at the Nürnberg Messe, Germany.

The annual Embedded Awards honour outstanding technical innovations in embedded technologies, with winners selected by an independent jury of industry experts.  Three awards are made, covering Hardware, Software and Tools award categories.  In the Hardware category Energy … Read More → "Energy Micro wins Embedded Award for energy friendly 32-bit microcontroller"

Atmel’s Secure Microcontroller Offers Easy-to-Implement Security to Prevent Cloning and Counterfeiting

EMBEDDED WORLD NUREMBERG, March 2, 2010 – Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced a new secure microcontroller dedicated to deeply embedded security functions including brand and IP (intellectual property) protection against counterfeiting and cloning. Atmel’s AT90SO4 is the newest member of the AT90SO product family – a family that offers a wide range of interfaces to bring security in any system. Built around Atmel’s secureAVR® microcontroller technology, the AT90SO4 offers banking or government security level with four multiplexed interfaces in a tiny package. Atmel’s AT90SO4 can protect against cloning of various applications including ink … Read More → "Atmel’s Secure Microcontroller Offers Easy-to-Implement Security to Prevent Cloning and Counterfeiting"

Atmel Expands tinyAVR Product Family with High- Performance, Low-power Microcontroller

EMBEDDED WORLD 2010, Nuremberg, Germany, March 2, 2010 – Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller- and touch-based solutions, today announced the ATtiny4313, an extension to Atmel’s tinyAVR® product family of low-power, high-performance microcontrollers featuring picoPower® technology. The ATtiny4313 is a new device in the 20-pin tinyAVR family that is code- and pin-compatible with the existing ATtiny2313A. The new device enables a simple, swift upgrade to consumer end products.

This general purpose microcontroller targets many applications across the electronics industry in consumer electronics, industrial, computer and communications markets. Atmel’s ATtiny4313 can work as the … Read More → "Atmel Expands tinyAVR Product Family with High- Performance, Low-power Microcontroller"

VIA ART-3000: A Rugged and Versatile Embedded Box PC for All Occasions

Taipei, Taiwan,March 2, 2010 – VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the VIA ART-3000, a complete, fanless and ruggedized embedded box system based on the unique I/O-rich Em-ITX form factor, offering the ideal solution for a variety of industrial applications.

Available as a complete system including drives and memory, the fanless VIA ART-3000 combines a number of unique features including diskless booting, excellent vibration and shock resistance, dual Gigabit networking and dual LVDS video support. Ruthlessly low power consumption means the VIA ART-3000 can also support fanless configurations with no … Read More → "VIA ART-3000: A Rugged and Versatile Embedded Box PC for All Occasions"

Atmel Develops Floating Point Unit for 32-bit AVR UC3 Microcontrollers

EMBEDDED WORLD 2010, Nuremberg, Germany, March 2, 2010 – Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced a new technology, a Floating Point Unit, that is being designed for Atmel’s 32-bit AVR® UC3 product family. This new technology will enable designers to replace a two chip microcontroller and digital signal processing (DSP) solution with just one Atmel microcontroller (MCU) for applications in the automotive and industrial control markets.

A feature of Atmel’s 32-bit AVR UC3 microcontrollers is the architecture’s very high digital signal processing performance. Offering fixed point and integer arithmetic … Read More → "Atmel Develops Floating Point Unit for 32-bit AVR UC3 Microcontrollers"

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