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In
This Issue:
· Quadros
Systems RTXC Supports IAR Development Tools for ColdFire
· Connect
your embedded system to a PC with USB
· Visual
RTXC Update
· Ask
The Expert
New
Processors
Here are some of the processors now supported by the RTXC Quadros RTOS. Check our website for a more complete listing.
· ARM NXP LCP2468
· ARM NXP LCP2138
· Power Architecture Freescale MPC8247
· Power Architecture Freescale MPC85xx
Coming Events
· DSP Roundtable
· Embedded World 2008
· Embedded Systems Conference
McEnery Convention Center
· Freescale Technology Forum 2008
JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Conference
Centers
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Due to popular demand (and
some new staff resources) we have re-started our email newsletter. If you
are like me you probably receive five or six of these newsletters each day
from various companies. It seems like everyone sees this as an effective
way to keep in touch with their customers (and prospective customers). The
key, of course, is whether the content is valuable enough to set aside time
to read it.
We have pledged to
make RTXC I/O as relevant and informative as possible. The real
challenge is that the embedded industry is diverse and somewhat fragmented.
What may be of interest to a medical device manufacturer may not have any
appeal to ad developer working on mobile phone platform. As we pick topics
for these issues we are trying to choose subjects with broad appeal. We
welcome your feedback and suggestions for future issues. Send your comments
and ideas to rtxc-io@quadros.com.
In this issue we
revisit USB development and explain some of the design issues
in using USB to allow a laptop or PC to read resident memory on an embedded
system. In the news category we are pleased to announce support for IAR’s
Embedded Workbench for ColdFire and an exciting new feature
enhancement in the VisualRTXC design tool. And check out our
listing of upcoming industry events including a new Houston-based training
class in the RTXC Quadros RTOS.
Quadros Systems RTXCTM RTOS Supports IAR Development Tools for ColdFire® Processors
Now, developers looking to move to the ColdFire family of
processors can access the flexibility and power of the RTXC Quadros RTOS
and the efficiency and code density of the IAR Embedded Workbench
development environment.
IAR Embedded Workbench
is a set of highly sophisticated and easy-to-use development tools – C/C++
compiler, assembler, linker, librarian, text editor, project manager, and
debugger – combined in an integrated development environment (IDE) for
programming embedded applications. It generates very efficient and reliable
FLASH/PROMable code for ColdFire devices.
Looking for the
convenience and confidence of a single supplier for RTOS, stacks,
middleware and tools? Quadros Systems sells and supports IAR development
tools for both ColdFire and ARM platforms.
Read
more...
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Connect your embedded system to a
PC with USB
by
Stephen Martin, Quadros Systems, Inc
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A popular use
for USB in an embedded system is to allow a PC to read log files or
similar data stored on the resident flash memory in the embedded system.
This is useful for allowing occasional access by technicians (since
RS-232/DB9 connectors have disappeared from laptops) or it can be a
routine way of transferring log data to a PC for analysis. Designing your
embedded system to allow a PC to read resident flash memory requires the
correct components and interface code so that they work seamlessly
together.
Read full article here.
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Visual RTXC Update
Some of you may be familiar with our new design tool,
VisualRTXC, an easy-to-use, powerful design tool that allows you to rapidly
move between high level design concepts and generated C code.
The latest release
includes a new productivity enhancement: component reuse. With this feature
you can group together any collection of VisualRTXC objects and save them
as a component. Any portion or subsystem of your VisualRTXC project can be
defined as a reusable component: as complex as a board support package to
something as simple as an alarm block. All of the graphical and code
semantics are saved as a unit and can be in your next project by simply
importing the component.
Specify a component at
the top level by simply clicking on the objects then selecting “export” on
the toolbar menu.
Find
out more about VisualRTXC.
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Ask The Expert
Have a question? We are here to help!
We would like to introduce our new section “Ask the Expert” to you. This is
your online opportunity to ask questions of our engineers, developers and
even our sales team.
We'll take the best
questions and post them here in our newsletter, along with our expert's
responses.
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