Date: 26th July 2011
SmartFusion chips from Microsemi supports
FreeRTOS
Microsemi Corporation has announced its SmartFusion customizable
system-on-chip (cSoC) devices supporting FreeRTOS, a scale-able
real time kernel designed specifically for small embedded
systems, and can be used in any type of application.
FreeRTOS is an professionally developed kernel that can
be used in commercial applications, completely free of charge,
without any requirement to expose proprietary source code.
With FreeRTOS product developers have access to a choice
of operating systems and communication protocols for implementation
on SmartFusion cSoCs, enabling the acceleration of their
designs in industrial and networking applications, says
Microsemi.
According to Gartner Inc the consumption of programmable
devices such as SmartFusion cSoCs is expected to grow from
approximately $5 billion in 2011 to $7.7 billion in 2015-with
much of that growth in the industrial market.
"Expanding our portfolio with FreeRTOS will help support
the adoption of SmartFusion cSoCs and allow us to better
serve our growing customer base," said Rich Kapusta,
vice president terrestrial products, SoC Products Group
at Microsemi. "With significant increases in the industrial
market's SoC consumption over the next several years, this
will be a key area for SmartFusion cSoCs as we continue
to focus on providing our customers with solutions that
meet and anticipate their design needs."
SmartFusion cSoCs are the devices that integrate an FPGA,
an ARM Cortex-M3 processor and programmable analog, enabling
full customization, IP protection and ease-of-use. Based
on it's proprietary flash process, SmartFusion devices are
suggested for hardware and embedded designers who need a
true SoC that gives more flexibility than traditional fixed-function
microcontrollers, without the excessive cost of soft processor
cores on traditional FPGAs, says Microsemi.
For more information, visit www.microsemi.com
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