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measuring heart rate/SpO2, skin
temperature, and pressure as well as
an accelerometer and gyroscope. The
platform comes in a wrist watch form
factor (1.5-inches wide x 1.57-inches
long x 0.87-inches high) with a wrist
strap and a built in battery.
“One of the more popular applications
to emerge from the growing Internet of
Things market are wearable devices.
However, with so many potential
applications for wearables and their
strict power requirements, it’s a
challenge to find a semiconductor
platform that features the right
combination of low power operation
and peripheral support,” said Ying
Chen, product marketing manager
at Lattice Semiconductor. “Our
iCE40 Ultra Wearable Development
Platform’s power usage and feature
set make it an ideal choice for
nearly any wearable application our
customers can dream of.”
Included with the platform are a
detailed user guide and several
demos to showcase parallel RGB to
MIPI DSI bridging, health monitor,
pedometer, IR transmitter or flashlight
functions.
The
iCE40
Ultra
Wearable
Development Platform is available
now direct from Lattice at a retail price
of $270. Please visit www.latticesemi.
com/ultrawearable to learn more
about the platform and for ordering
information.
Freescale Kinetis MCU
development solution provides
comprehensive support for new
ARM® mbed™ IoT Device
Platform
Popular Freescale Freedom FRDM-
K64F board supports ARM mbed
software, tools and cloud services
for rapid creation of IoT products
spanning from end-node to cloud
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS
WIRE)– (ARM TechCon 2015) -–
Designed in collaboration with ARM®
mbed™, Freescale Semiconductor’s
(NYSE: FSL) popular FRDM-
K64F board is available now
with comprehensive support for
ARM mbed IoT Device Platform
technologies, including ARM’s new
mbed OS operating system.
Recognized earlier this year as one
of the industry’s first development
boards to fully support mbed,
Freescale’s FRDM-K64F board
enables end-to-end mbed solutions
and works with a full complement
of mbed technologies including the
mbed OS, mbed Client, the mbed
Device Connector service and
associated mbed tools.
Freescale’s support for the newmbed
OS reinforces Freescale’s proven
track record of collaboration with
ARM on mbed enablement, which
includes the FRDM-K64F board
serving as the processing platform
for two of the first “IoT end device-
to-cloud” solutions for mbed – the
ARM mbed IoT Starter Kit for IBM®
IoT Foundation andARM’s mbed
solution for Microsoft Azure IoT Suite.
Freescale also recently delivered its
advanced FNET TCP/IP software
stack to the mbed ecosystem. This
software will become the foundation
of the mbed TCP/IP stack and serve
as the connectivity heart of the ARM
mbed OS architecture.
“ARM mbed IoT Device Platform
fills a critical gap by providing a
comprehensive,
standards-based
platform for microcontrollers,” said
Geoff Lees, senior vice president and
general manager of Freescale’s MCU
Group. “mbed helps our customers
speed time-to-market with off-the-
shelf technologies that support key
IoT requirements such as connectivity
and robust security.”
“Freescale’s FRDM-K64F has been
a valuable test platform during the
internal development prototyping
and validating of mbed OS with the
other mbed IoT Device Platform
capabilities,” said Zach Shelby,
vice president of marketing, IoT
business, ARM. “The feedback
we have received from mbed
developers implementing designs
with Freescale’s FRDM platform has
been strong. We expect to see more
next generation designs based on the
FRDM-K64F given its applicability to
a variety of IoT applications.”
Easily add wireless functionality to
the Freescale Freedom FRDM-K64F
board
The Freescale Freedom FRDM-
CR20A development board for
the MCR20A 2.4 GHz wireless
transceiver connects with the mbed
Enabled™ Freescale FRDM-K64F,
forming an mbed supported solution.
The FRDM-CR20A board provides a
low-power 802.15.4 radio, and when
combined with the FRDM-K64F
board, creates the basis for a fully
functional, wireless, cloud-connected
IoT platform, further enabling new
technologies including Thread low-
power mesh wireless networks.
“Zebra Technologies has selected the
Freescale FRDM-K64F as one of the
first IoT reference examples to work
with Zatar, our mbed Enabled cloud
service for IoT, due to its widespread
support in theARMmbed ecosystem,”
said Thomas Kurian, senior director
of New Growth Platforms at Zebra.
“We look forward to collaborating with
Freescale to help customers take
advantage of chip-to-cloud reference
designs for IoT.”