July 15 is behind us. If you are like me, you had that day marked on your calendar ever since Amazon first announced their one-day shopping event that promised to include more deals than Black Friday. As expected, many of the deals that Amazon offered were around electronic devices – things like robot vacuum cleaners, […]

We all know how fast the world is moving, but at its heart are people like you and me, exchanging ideas and making things happen. That’s why I like to connect and talk with people – as many people as possible. Sure, I search the web when I need information, but connecting with people and […]

Announced in March this year, the BBC’s micro:bit has been unveiled today. All the people excited by this fantastic initiative can now discover the final device and this extensive set of features on the BBC Make it Digital website. The micro:bit is a pocket-sized computer measuring 4cm by 5cm, and designed to be fun and […]

Without motor control, our homes and lives would be far less convenient than they are today – we’d still be washing our clothes by hand, cooking over open fires and desperately searching for the nearest ice cave in which to chill our beers. Outside of the kitchen the effect would be equally troublesome – HVACs […]

We all are born with an innate sense of curiosity about the world. A curiosity that parents and teachers know all too well as children are very inquisitive – constantly asking questions about the world around them. Feeding that curiosity is important because as we grow older, it becomes increasingly more difficult to find the […]

It’s been quite a while since I’ve updated you on the status of Freescale’s sensor fusion efforts (One-stop-fusion-shopping at freescale.com/sensorfusion). We haven’t been idle. We’ve added support for FRDM-KL46Z boards and for Kinetis Design Studio IDE. The Sensor Fusion Toolkit for Windows has been expanded with new and improved features. We’ve updated our user manual […]

In an embedded system, it is all about being more energy efficient across the application’s tasks, which can generally be broken into three phases: Initialization, Control and the Compute. To reduce power consumption the equation is simple, reduce the area underneath the curve; in essence, do more with less power and time. This is achieved […]

“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.” – Woody Allen So then, can a microcontroller product line be immortal? Of course not, but many engineers wish they could continue to purchase the same microcontroller in perpetuity. And while not eternity, the proof of this desire […]

Freescale Semiconductor’s new Kinetis KV5x MCU family is harnessing the full performance potential of the ARM Cortex-M7 core to enable far-reaching design enhancements in the expansive and rapidly evolving digital motor control market. Motor control remains the number one consumer of electricity globally. With the vast majority of deployed motors commonly based on outdated, inefficient […]

Driving innovation with tiny, industry-leading packages. Overview Kinetis mini MCUs are Freescale’s smallest, ARM Powered® devices, being shipped in a variety of wafer-level chip-scale packages (WLCSPs). These MCUs are offered in industry-leading miniature packages, providing massive design potential for today’s embedded designers. Freescale’s WLCSP technology development has enabled smaller packages, with greater functionality, than previously […]