The universal serial bus (USB) has completely replaced UART, PS2, and IEEE-1284 parallel interfaces on PCs, and now is gaining wide acceptance in embedded applications. Most of the I/O devices (keyboards, scanners, mice) used with embedded systems are USB-based for good reason.   Since the USB is a well-defined standard that is ...
Waterloo, Canada — RoweBots Research, Inc., has launched two ultra-tiny embedded-Linux compatible RTOSes that for the first time enable Linux and POSIX compatible development of Renesas' R8C, M16C and R32C/100 microcontroller (MCU) families. DSPnano is the functional equivalent to an ultra-tiny embedded-Linux RTOS for Renesas' 8- and 16-bit MCUs, including the ...