Tom Minnich presents his Freescale powered search and rescue remote controlled robot.
Category: Freescale
AllGoConnect for Auto Head-unit to smart phone connectivity
Posted by – June 25, 2011
Last year, AllGo presented the $35 tablet idea, which they are still working on. This year they are focusing their FTF presentation on their Android powered in-car interactivity features, with Nokia Terminal Mode and USB/MTP/iPod playback.
Freescale’s touch sensing software suite
Posted by – June 25, 2011
Different ways to use Freescale’s touch sensors in actual products.
Microsoft Windows at the Freescale Technology Forum
Posted by – June 25, 2011
Microsoft is preparing Windows 8 on ARM, but until then, there are Windows CE solutions in use and in the works such as these solutions demonstrated in this video. What do you think about Microsoft’s positionning in this embedded software market? Paul Wright offers his opinions on Windows in the second half of this video.
Freescale MMA9550 powered pedometer
Posted by – June 25, 2011
They are showing their Sensor Fusion as a pedometer.
Kobo Touch, $129 i.MX508 WiFi infrared-touch e-reader
Posted by – June 23, 2011
This may be the best e-reader on the market today. If it does run Android, if Kobo decides to open up the access to those Android features and not lock it down to only be about buying ebooks on their ebook store. Right now it may not be running Android at all, at least Kobo is not taking advantage of the potential Android openness yet. Hopefully Kobo updates their firmware for it to run a fully open Android, they can monetize e-readers in other new ways not only by locking it for a e-book store.
Linaro ARM Linux optimizations status at the Freescale Technology Forum
Posted by – June 23, 2011
Discussion with Linaro employees about the status of ARM Powered laptops.
Ubuntu Core with touch screen for interactive in-car navigation system
Posted by – June 23, 2011
This is the Ubuntu In-Vehicle Infotainment system, using Ubuntu in the car. This is touch screen UI optimized version of Ubuntu.
Boundary Devices show i.MX53 in 24″ capacitive touch screen and 12″ Tablet
Posted by – June 23, 2011
Boundary Devices is a PCB design house working on the latest Freescale ARM processors, here showing the i.MX53 powering a nice 12″ capacitive tablet and a 24″ capacitive monitor.
$149 Freescale i.MX53 Quick Start Board
Posted by – June 23, 2011
Marsha Chang, Freescale i.MX product marketer shows us the Freescale i.MX53 Quick Start development board. You can buy this for $149 now, download the latest Linaro images of Ubuntu or Android by just putting them on the MicroSD card, booting it and you can test an ARM Powered desktop and you can start to develop and optimize software to run on this platform.
Freescale Mechatronics training robot, to learn software, sensors, microcontrollers
This is a robot training kit for $199, you get all the parts needed to start playing around programming with Freescale’s microcontrollers, sensors and more. At the Freescale Technology Forum, Freescale is organizing the Make It challenge, where attendees have 36 hours to use one of these and build the coolest robot to win prizes. You can find more information at http://freescale.com/mechbot and http://buildsmartrobots.com
Freescale Microcontrollers market, history, architectures, innovation
Posted by – June 22, 2011
Freescale had a press conference to talk about all the microcontroller related releases they had at FTF. Microcontrollers represents about 40% overall of Freescale’s revenue, in this video I try to ask Jeff Bock, Freescale’s director of marketing industrial microcontrollers, what those Microcontrollers are used for, how Freescale’s customers chooses one architechture over another and where they are going.
Freescale University Programs
Posted by – June 22, 2011
Freescale works with Universities around the world to help provide tools to educate students on programming for Freescale processors. At the Freescale Technology Forum, Freescale organizes a Cup where some of the worlds best student teams show off their auto driving cars implemented with all of Freescale’s microprocessors and sensor technologies.
Genesi launches new cheaper/better i.MX53 based Laptops and Desktops
Posted by – June 22, 2011
Here is the board for now, they are going to launch the new Genesi i.MX53 based Laptops and Desktops around July or August, providing more performance, using lower power, at lower cost. The current Genesi Efika MX Smartbook i.MX51 based laptop is selling for $199, the Genesi MX Smarttop i.MX51 Desktop is selling for $129, they plan for the next generation i.MX53 based Laptop (Smartbook) and Desktop (Smarttop) to be sold for even cheaper. They are also working to combine their ARM based Laptop with the Pixel Qi screen as soon as it’s mass produced.
Also watch my video interview with Konstantinos Margaritis talking about the way Genesi is optimizing Linux on ARM to make it up to 300% faster on these ARM Powered laptops and desktops.
Freescale i.MX6 Quad-core reference design at FTF 2011
Posted by – June 21, 2011
This is an Interview with Rajeev Kumar, consumer product line manager for Freescale’s Multimedia Applications Division, demonstrating the first prototype reference design board running the first sample of Freescale’s new i.MX 6Quad processor platform. This is the industry’s first Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 SoC combined with a full 64bit memory bus. I try to ask Rajeev Kumar about the performance, the features, the design. They use triple-play graphics designed in partnership with Vivante. Look forward to more videos here on http://ARMdevices.net about the i.MX 6 processor.
KEYnetik’s Sensor Fusion for Navigation and Activity Monitoring
Posted by – June 21, 2011
They make algorithms for measuring pedestrian navigation, using the Freescale Fusion sensors, accelerometers, gyro, to measure every step and the distance of every step. The target device is a smartphone.
Keil MDK-ARM for Cortex-M4 development
Posted by – June 21, 2011
Support for MQX RTOS within the Keil Tools it’s also task aware.
Genesi’s Hard Float optimizations speeds up Linux performance up to 300% on ARM Laptops
Posted by – June 21, 2011
Konstantinos Margaritis is a Senior Software Engineer at San Antonio based Genesi, he talks about how Genesi is pushing Linaro forward to recompile all the apps and everything around Linux to use hard float, to re-optimize floating point applications on ARM Powered Desktop/Laptop designs. Watch this video interview to find out how Genesi is doing these software optimizations on Debian for the i.MX51 and i.MX53 platforms in their ARM Powered Smartbook designs. How soon are ARM Powered laptops going to have enough performance optimizations in them to demonstrate that ARM is fast enough to power Desktop/Laptop designs so that every consumer can be satisfied with the performance?
iWave PCB Designs based on i.MX53, i.MX51, i.MX27
iWave Systems makes Freescale based PCB designs and software optimization.
Freescale Sensor Toolbox with e-compass solution
Posted by – June 21, 2011
Using Freescale’s Sensor Fusion solutions, the accelerometer and some algorithms can improve the magnetometer as so-called e-compass, an improved compass that knows in which direction you are heading, speed things up for augmented reality, and any application that requires the compass.
