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The Embedded Beat is moving 29 Oct 2012 | 11:29 pm
The Embedded Beat blog is moving to a new best-in-class environment sitting with the new Freescale Community. All of the valuable blog posts and comments that you’ve come to expect have been migrated ...
Freescale highlights significant auto MCU industry shifts, impacts auto OEMs 25 Oct 2012 | 03:03 am
By Stephan Lehmann — More than 1,400 participants from around the world, including the top management from German car OEMs, tier 1s, semiconductor suppliers and partners, gather every other year for t...
Using the touch interface on the Freescale Freedom Development Platform 15 Oct 2012 | 07:14 pm
By Tom Thompson – A recent blog article by Erich Styger introduced the Freescale Freedom Development Platform, a new cost-effective development platform for Kinetis L series microcontroller (MCUs). Th...
MQX Lite is a heavy-weight hitter 8 Oct 2012 | 06:20 pm
By Jim Trudeau – The buzz around the Kinetis L series microcontroller (MCU) is really exciting. It combines the low-power, low-cost and ease-of-use of 8-bit, with the energy-efficiency, feature integr...
Magnetometer placement – where and why 4 Oct 2012 | 03:49 am
By Michael Stanley – In my last posting (Accelerometer placement – where and why [1]) I discussed tradeoffs to be considered when choosing where to locate an accelerometer in your design. THIS posting...
A week of automotive Ethernet-based networking 28 Sep 2012 | 07:04 pm
By Axel Streicher – As a founding member of the OPEN Alliance SIG (One-Pair Ether-Net Special Interest Group), Freescale hosted the second 2012 Promoter and All Members face-to-face meeting in its Mun...
CodeWarrior IDE v10.3: A whole new perspective 26 Sep 2012 | 01:59 am
By Jim Trudeau — There is clearly a difference between dream and reality. Figure 1 shows what we dream of when we dream space station, compared to what we build for real. The dream is a coherent, sing...
48V for car electrification 20 Sep 2012 | 01:44 am
By Cherif Assad – At the Ludwigsburg Elektronik Congress last year, German carmakers including Audi, BMW, Daimler, Porsche and Volkswagen agreed on 48V embedded supply to support the growing current l...
Software and hardware breakpoints 18 Sep 2012 | 01:14 am
By Erich Styger—As an embedded software developer, the use of breakpoints to debug software is a fact of life. I usually debug my applications in flash memory, because nearly all of the microcontrolle...
Automotive infotainment and open-source development: Where is the industry moving? 31 Aug 2012 | 02:21 am
By Laurent Emmerich – Coupled with high-speed internet connectivity and intuitive human machine interfaces (HMI), our cars have become smart devices on wheels. Dashboards that once featured basic audi...
