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Express Logic Launches ThreadX MCU Edition for Microchip Technology’s PIC24 Microcontrollers and dsPIC® DSCs
Express Logic has announced the availability of Express Logic’s new ThreadX Microcontroller Edition RTOS, “ThreadX/MCU,” for the 16-bit PIC24 microcontrollers (MCUs) and dsPIC digital signal controllers (DSCs) from Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors.
RTOS for Microchip Technology’s PIC32 32-bit Microcontrollers from Express Logic
Express Logic has announced the availability of its ThreadX RTOS for the new PIC32 microcontroller family from Microchip Technology Inc, a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors. In August, Express Logic announced its ThreadX/MCU Edition for Microchip’s 16-bit PIC24 and dsPIC33 controllers. With this addition, ThreadX users can easily migrate between Microchip’s 16- and 32-bit families using the same RTOS and the same M...
Premier Farnell first to stock Microchip and Digilent’s chipKIT 32-bit Microcontroller Development
Premier Farnell is first to stock Microchip and Digilent’s first chipKIT 32-bit microcontroller development platform. Microchip and Digilent recently launched the first 32-bit-microcontroller-based, open-source development platform that conforms to Arduino hardware and software. Designed and manufactured by Digilent, a Microchip Authorised Design Partner, the chipKIT platform is the first 32-bit solution in Arduino™ form-factor in the ind...
Remember Mouser at Electronica and win development kits from leading IC makers!
Mouser Electronics, Inc., known for its rapid introduction of the industry’s newest products, is highlighting some of its leading franchises at the upcoming Electronica exhibition with a variation on a popular memory game.
LDRA Tool Suite Integrated into Microchip Technology’s PIC Family
LDRA, the leading provider of automated software verification, source code analysis, and test tools, has integrated the LDRA tool suite and Microchip Technology’s MPLAB PIC18, PIC24 and dsPIC32/33 tool chains. Leveraging the scalability of its components, LDRA can scale the LDRA tool suite down to run application code on small processor footprints. Thanks to this integration, very low-cost and low-power PIC processors can be used in DO-178B qua...
ARM Passes x86 and Power Architecture to Become The Leading MCU/eMPU Architecture in 2010
According to preliminary findings from the 2011 edition of Semicast’s 32/64-bit Microcontrollers & Embedded Microprocessors study, ARM became the leading architecture for 32/64-bit MCUs/eMPUs in 2010.
Industry Leaders Achieve Significant Power and Performance Gains With Synopsys' Low Power Solution
Synopsys, Inc. has announced that industry leaders worldwide have broadly deployed and successfully taped out more than 125 advanced multi-voltage designs using the Galaxy™ Implementation Platform low power solution and IEEE-1801 Unified Power Format (UPF) resulting in significant productivity, power and chip performance gains.
Aerotech provides enabling positioning technology for nanometre precision direct-write laser application
One of the many varied and interesting research projects at the University of Southampton’s ORC (Optoelectronics Research Centre) involves direct UV laser writing of integrated optical circuits on specialised glass substrates and on its own patented ‘flat’ optical cable. With application potential from telecom network components through to lab-on-a-chip (LOC) biological and chemical sensors, the photonic circuits are produced wi...
Altechna's AltSCA femtosecond laser micromachining system uses Aerotech nanopositioning mechanics and motion controls
Laser technology solutions specialist Altechna Co. Ltd is basing its Alt-SCA femtosecond laser micromachining system around Aerotech's ANT130 series linear motor driven nanopositioning stages in a customised 3-axis XYZ configuration that includes a granite bridge support structure and a unique pneumatically counterbalanced vertical axis. The synchronisation between the one nanometre resolution positioning system and the laser's firing pattern is ...
Heraeus Innovation Awards 2010: Double Victory for quartz glass innovations
The Quarzglas business group celebrated a double victory at the Eighth Annual Heraeus Innovation Awards, held in Hanau in mid-November, 2010. Dr. Martin Trommer, Head of Development at Heraeus Quarzglas in Bitterfeld, won first place in the product innovations category for developing fluorine-doped quartz glass tubes, which enable highly bendable quartz glass fiber to be produced extremely efficiently. The fibers can even be tied in knots without...