Problem hits Freescale Kinetis K60 family

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk


Development tool vendor IAR is warning that users can accidently, and permanently, lock up Freescale's Kinetis K60 microcontroller family. Chris Hills, Technical Director of Paedrus Systems, points to the IAR advisory note and says that a problem could be caused if the default linker configuration file was used and the code reached address 0x40C as Freescale

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ARM's Broadcom deal is bigger than Microsoft

BROADCOM AND ARM EXTEND RELATIONSHIP WITH STRATEGIC LICENSING AGREEMENT

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

Broadcom has taken a broad license to all ARM's processor cores in a move that is fundamentally more important for the embedded market than the recent Microsoft announcement.

Broadcom now has access the entire range of ARM processors, from the smallest, lowest-power ARM CortexTM-M0

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Toumaz launches ultra-low power self-powered radio chip

1V ‘TELRAN’ TZ1053 aimed at wireless sensor networks, environmental monitoring and smart metering in the sub-1GHz ISM band

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk


Toumaz Technology has launched an ultra-low power radio chip aimed at wireless sensors in environmental and medical systems that can use solar or energy harvesting systems and so be self-powered. The chip can be used both for the sensor

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