Embedded News
This page list the interesting embedded system news and embedded system design contest around the world.
Update on 28/10/2009
1. MSP430 design competition
This competition is organized by TI (TEXUS INSTRUMENTS) with 10000 USD in overall prizes (First prize will get $4,050 Value).You can view the rules for this design contest by clicking here.The period of this conpetition is about three months (start on October 19, 2009 and end on January 19, 2010). You can submit your design to this contest by uploading it to the website.The developer must use only TI MSP430 microcontroller series to design their workpiece.Visit the competition website here.
2.NXP is going to launch Cortex-M0
After NXP had launched ARM Cortex-M3 to the market (LPC1700 and LPC1300).Now they’re
planning to launch Cortex-M0 (LCP1100) to the market at the beginning of 2010.Please look
at the picture below to compare each of NXP ARM Cortex series.
Comparison of Cortex Series
The definition of Cortex-M0 from NXP website is “It is smallest,lowest power
consumption but the performance equivalent to 32-bit microcontroller”.It is 16-bit
microcontroller with 8-bit price level.I think the interesting parts of this
microcontroller series are
- 100% C-coding including interrupt handlers and boot code (so you can write the code
without using assembly language).
– Cortex-M0 is designed to emphasize on retrenchment code footprint (use minimal code
footprint).
I think it’s not so difficult for the person who are acquainted with NXP LPC2000 ARM
series in adaptation to use Cortex-M0 in the near future (as ARM Cortex-M3 also has pin-
compatible with LPC2000).You can view more information about Cortex-M0 by visiting NXP website.
NXP also release platform of the future (Mbed) in order to revolute the procedure of
embedded development by moving the compiler toward on the web and after we compiled the
files and got the firmware we can download firmware into Mbed board via USB connection.
For more information about Mbed platform, please visit Mbed.org.
At the ARM TechCon3 that was arranged between 21-23 October 2009,there is first step
introduction of the new IDE for Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M0 name “LPCXpresso”.
LPCXpresso was developed from Eclipse (the well-known open source IDE). At present, NXP
is moving forward into Cortex market and I also look forward to using Cortex-M0 from NXP
too.
Reference site :
- http://www.electoday.com/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=2471
- http://www.electoday.com/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=1801
- NXP
Thank you so much,
Jitkasem Pintaya.
