ARM Offers $10,000 in Prizes for Smart Product Design Competition
February 18 2015 - 2:00AM
Business Wire
Technology entrepreneurs can register starting today to compete
for a $10,000 prize fund in an ARM sponsored contest to create a
smart domestic or industrial device based on an ARM® Cortex®-M4
processor. The competition will run from March to June 2015 and
will showcase how quickly products can be designed with ARM CMSIS
software components and middleware.
The goal is to create a device fulfilling any function in areas
such as home automation, measurement, the Internet of Things or
system control. Contest registration starts today and ends March
31, 2015. Around 100 innovative projects will progress into the
next round. Each will receive professional software development
tools, a debug unit, hardware containing a Cortex-M4
processor-based microcontroller and peripheral components. The
competitors can choose from platforms provided by Freescale,
Infineon, NXP or STMicroelectronics.
Final prototype designs for the Microcontroller Design Contest
for ARM Cortex-M processor-based devices must be submitted by June
30, 2015. The winners will be announced in October 2015, with five
prizes awarded from $500 to $5,000.
“The contest will demonstrate how standardized components and
readily available software now make it far easier and faster for
designers to create smart products,” said Reinhard Keil, director,
microcontroller tools, ARM. “New technology invention was
previously the domain of those with advanced processor knowledge
and access to funding. That has changed now because of the tools
and solutions ARM and its partners are providing and that has led
to the rapid evolution of a vibrant new developer industry.”
Participants will receive a complementary license for the ARM
Keil® MDK Microcontroller Development Kit – Professional Edition,
the industry-leading software development environment for Cortex-M
based microcontrollers. Competitors can use proven pre-built
software components such as CMSIS, RTOS, communication stack, file
system, graphical user interface to accelerate software
development. Developers may also add hardware components and use
standardized CMSIS drivers, for example to utilize communication
interfaces such as I2C, SPI and USART.
To further help designers, ARM is introducing a new learning
platform to provide expert knowledge and useful coding examples.
Four different template applications are also available
demonstrating various peripherals and middleware for TCP/IP
networking, USB device, USB host, file storage and graphical user
interface design. These show:
- Data acquisition from live sensor data
on a web interface recording to a SD card
- Data logger recording digital and
analogue inputs and control via USB device interface
- Audio recording using SPI memory and
controlled using a web interface
- Display with touch-screen example that
outputs a text file from a USB memory stick.
Partner quotes"The Freescale Kinetis microcontroller
portfolio offers the leading ARM based microcontrollers and we are
excited to sponsor this contest with the Freescale Freedom
development platform, FRDM-K64F, based on the Kinetis K6x MCU
family," said Michael Norman, software and tools product manager,
Freescale Semiconductor. "The FRDM-K64F platform is a general
purpose prototyping board packed with features, including
Arduino-compatible connectors, on-board Ethernet and USB, an
accelerometer and a magnetometer, and large on-chip RAM and Flash
resources—giving software and hardware engineers a robust platform
on which to demonstrate their skills and knowledge.”
"With its powerful peripheral set the Infineon XMC4500
microcontroller series based on the ARM Cortex-M4 processor is
the ultimate choice for industrial control solutions,” said
Maurizio Skerlj, senior director, industrial and multimarket
microcontrollers, Infineon Technologies. “Combining the new CMSIS
drivers with the related middleware and the XMC peripheral library
makes it possible to create efficient applications that utilize
USB, TCP/IP communication, and a file system. Moreover, the code
for the application can be generated and configured using the free
Infineon development platform DAVE™.”
“The asymmetric dual-core architecture of the LPC4300 series
combines an ARM Cortex-M4 and Cortex-M0 processor to allow custom
task partitioning for higher performance and efficiency,” said Ken
Dwyer, director, applications engineering, NXP Semiconductors. “Our
LPC4330-Xplorer kit implements Ethernet, dual high speed USB, and
memory card interfaces as well as audio codecs. Combining these
peripherals with the DSP capabilities of the LPC4330 allows you to
design smart control applications in areas like audio processing
and streaming.”
”ST has a portfolio of over 600 ARM Cortex-M based
microcontrollers and contestants undertaking the ARM challenge are
being offered the STM32F429, a high-performance Cortex-M4 processor
based device,” said Laurent Desseignes, microcontroller ecosystems
marketing manager, STMicroelectronics. “The STM32F429 Discovery Kit
has a graphic display, SDRAM and motion sensors and is suitable for
any general-purpose embedded application. The Keil MDK from ARM
fits this hardware platform particularly well and the software also
links to ST’s STM32Cube which helps designers to release their
creativity and deliver some great innovation.”
Notes to Editors:
Registration:Visit http://www.keil.com/contest by March
31, 2015, to submit a project proposal along with your contact
details to register as a participant of the Microcontroller Design
Contest for ARM Cortex-M processor-based devices. Final embedded
application designs must be submitted by June 30, 2015. An
independent jury will select the winners of the Microcontroller
Design Contest and those winners will be announced in October 2015
in Elektor magazine.
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