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NEC Electronics Europe Announces FreeRTOS™ Support for its 16- and 32-bit Microcontrollers
NEC Electronics Expands its Real Time Operating Systems Support with FreeRTOS™
DÜSSELDORF (Germany) — 26 Feb 2009
NEC Electronics Europe today announced the support of the open source and royalty free real-time operating system, FreeRTOSTM for its 16-bit 78K0R and 32-bit V850 microcontrollers. FreeRTOS is simple to use, with minimal ROM and RAM overhead and is free to use in commercial applications. The modified GPL license under which it is distributed, allows users to deploy in applications without any requirement to share their source code. NEC Electronics microcontrollers are supported by a number of commercial RTOS’s. By announcing the support for FreeRTOS , developers using NEC Electronics microcontrollers have the flexibility to develop with an RTOS of their choice regardless of budget.
Embedded systems increasingly require the use of an RTOS system to efficiently synchronise and schedule the various tasks they have to perform. Not all developers wish to pay the expense of a commercial RTOS. FreeRTOSis an independent, open-source operating system designed specifically for embedded microcontroller systems and has the performance, features and quality of a commercial product. The FreeRTOS organization has been established for over 5 years with more than 7000 downloads per month. Commercial licensing and support for FreeRTOS is also available through OpenRTOSTM from WITTENSTEIN at http://www.openrtos.com .
NEC Electronics provides a range of over 400 All Flash® microcontrollers from the smallest 8-bit 78K0, to the high performance low power 16-bit 78K0R to the world’s leading* 32-bit V850. All designed to provide developers the flexibility, performance, memory size and peripheral integration to handle the simplest to the most demanding of embedded applications.
The FreeRTOS documentation, source code and demonstration examples for 78K0R and V850 are available* from the FreeRTOS Web site at http://www.freertos.org/.
Additional information can be found on the NEC Electronics web site at http://www.eu.necel.com/micro/
*Note: NEC is not the licensor of the open source software FreeRTOSTM. You need to license the software directly from WITTENSTEIN. NEC is neither responsible for the content nor the functionality of this link and the open source software.
About NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH
NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH, headquartered in Duesseldorf, Germany, is a leading developer and supplier of semiconductor products in Europe. Committed to meeting customers' cost, performance and time-to-market requirements, the company offers solutions ranging from standard products to system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions, as well as customized products for next-generation designs. Our customers also benefit from state-of-the-art manufacturing from the global production network of our parent company, NEC Electronics Corporation. Additionally, NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH is the exclusive European sales and marketing channel of LCD modules from NEC LCD Technologies Ltd.. For more information visit http://www.eu.necel.com.
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