Pengutronix News

Hildesheim, Germany - Pengutronix offers a new release of its free Board Support Package for generic and emulated platforms. It provides all required components to get everything run in a QEMU environment, and is dedicated for beginners in the embedded world. And for the experienced user it can act as a quick start for her/his own development as well.

Feature List:

• PTXdist based buildsystem for easy setup and build
• Recent GCC Toolchain (GCC 4.7.2, libc 2.16.0)
• Kernel: Recent 3.0/3.7.1 Linux
• QEMU: Recent 1.3
• Comprehensive documentation how to prepare and build all software components and run the QEMU emulation. It also includes the PTXdist reference manual.

See the project website for more information.

Hildesheim, Germany - Pengutronix offers a new release of its free Board Support Package for the popular FriendlyARM's Mini2440. It provides all required components to get this embedded target up and running, and is dedicated for beginners in the embedded world. And for the experienced user it can act as a quick start for her/his own development as well.

Feature List:

• PTXdist based buildsystem for easy setup and build
• Recent GCC Toolchain (GCC 4.7.2, libc 2.16.0)
• Bootloader: 'Barebox' 2011.05.0
• Kernel: Recent 3.7 Linux (includes stable releases)
• Comprehensive documentation how to prepare and build all software components and to deploy the Mini2440

See the project website for more information.

Hildesheim, Germany - Pengutronix offers a new release of its free Board Support Package for the popular FriendlyARM's Mini2440. It provides all required components to get this embedded target up and running, and is dedicated for beginners in the embedded world. And for the experienced user it can act as a quick start for her/his own development as well.

Feature List:

• PTXdist based buildsystem for easy setup and build
• Recent GCC Toolchain (GCC 4.6.2, libc 2.14.1)
• Bootloader: 'Barebox' 2011.05.0
• Kernel: Recent 3.4 Linux (includes stable releases)
• Comprehensive documentation how to prepare and build all software components and to deploy the Mini2440

See the project website for more information.

Hildesheim, Germany - Pengutronix offers a new release of its free Board Support Package for the popular FriendlyARM's Mini2440. It provides all required components to get this embedded target up and running, and is dedicated for beginners in the embedded world. And for the experienced user it can act as a quick start for her/his own development as well.

Feature List:

• PTXdist based buildsystem for easy setup and build
• Recent GCC Toolchain (GCC 4.6.2, libc 2.14.1)
• Bootloader: 'Barebox' 2011.05.0
• Kernel: Recent 3.2 Linux (includes stable releases)
• Comprehensive documentation how to prepare and build all software components and to deploy the Mini2440

See the project website for more information.

Energy Micro and Pengutronix demonstrate the world's most energy friendly Linux for ARM Cortex-M3

Embedded World 2012, Nuremberg & Oslo, Norway, February 7th, 2012

Energy Micro and Pengutronix today announced that they will be demonstrating µClinux for Cortex-M3, embedded Linux running on the energy friendly EFM32 Gecko range of microcontrollers at this year's Embedded World Show.

This new port of µClinux features the latest version 3.2 Linux kernel, and gives embedded designers all of the cost and time-to-market benefits of using an open source embedded operating system, while maintaining low current consumption of just 1.6mA when in idle mode. Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller and radio company, assisted and supported Pengutronix to complete the port to the Giant Gecko MCU range, the industry¿s leading family of low-energy microcontrollers.

Using µClinux reduces design cycles and accelerates time-to-market by giving the designer access to ready-made system functions such as IP connectivity, file systems, and multi-tasking. Users can also employ the broad range of free software and drivers available as open source, within a robust, portable open source framework.

The Embedded Linux/Microcontroller project is a port of Linux designed for systems without a memory management unit (MMU). The OS is an excellent performer for embedded use giving applications access to a rich set of free libraries and core OS services. Designers can choose which functionality to include in their systems, allowing them to trade sophistication with code footprint ¿ often a critical factor in embedded designs.

Robert Schwebel, CEO of Pengutronix, will be giving a presentation entitled ¿Ultra Low Power: Applications with Giant Gecko and Cortex-M3¿ at 11:30am on March 1 of the Embedded World Conference. Live demonstrations will be on show at the Pengutronix booth 5-341 in Hall 5 and Energy Micro¿s booth 1-523 in Hall 1 during the Embedded World event.

Energy Micro¿s Gecko microcontroller portfolio consists of 180 variants based on the ARM Cortex-M processor cores, and includes Gecko Technology benchmarked to consume just a quarter of the energy of competing 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit MCUs.

Watch the introduction video here.