Software speeds ColdFire peripheral development

ARC International has released MQX software for the ColdFire MCF547x/548x, MCF527x, and MCF523x processor families from Freescale Semiconductor.

ARC International has released MQX software for the ColdFire MCF547x/548x, MCF527x, and MCF523x processor families from Freescale Semiconductor.

ARC's MQX software provides optimal hardware and software integration for new on-chip peripheral hardware, including Ethernet, USB 2.0 Device, CAN and integrated security engines.

MQX software supports the integrated on-chip peripherals of the new ColdFire processors and enables rapid end-product development, optimal performance and supports industry standard technologies.

ARC's royalty-free real-time Industrial Control MQX software platform is targeted at a wide range of industrial applications including smart sensors, robotics, industrial switches, motion and temperature control and building surveillance.

ARC's MQX software platform includes MQX RTOS, an optimised TCP/IP networking stack, device drivers, RTOS-aware debugging, performance and profiling tools and a board support package for the relevant Freescale development boards.

ARC's key on-chip peripheral support includes: hardware-accelerated encryption with IPShield security software for IPSec, IKE, SSL and SSH protocols using Freescale's integrated on-chip security engine to achieve optimal security performance for DES, Triple DES, AES, SHA-1 and MD-5 security standards; Ethernet support with a 10/100 Fast Ethernet controller device driver for implementing networking features such as web servers, e-mail, XML server and remote monitoring; CAN support with a CAN device driver and CANopen protocol support; and a USB 2.0 device software developer's kit including a software stack, a controller-specific driver and example code, all tightly integrated with ARC's MQX RTOS.

ARC's MQX software platform is seamlessly integrated with the Metrowerks CodeWarrior Development Studio for ColdFire architectures, allowing developers to speed and accelerating the development of reliable, high performance industrial control and networking products.

The Metrowerks studio provides integrated hardware diagnostics for board bring-up, enhanced command windows for complex scripting capabilities and a built-in software profiler for hot spot analysis.

CodeWarrior Development studio provides integrated task-aware debugging and monitoring of TCP/IP networking stack objects.

ARC MQX software is currently available for the Freescale ColdFire MCF547x/MCF548x, MCF527x and MCF523x processor families.

MCF547x/MCF548x peripheral support for CANopen protocol will be available in Q404 with USB 2.0 device developer's kit available Q1 2005.

MCF523x peripheral support for hardware-accelerated encryption in IPShield-IPSec will be available in Q1 2005.

Support for the ColdFire MCF527x processor family with hardware-accelerated encryption in IPShield-IPSec will be available by Q1 2005.

MCF527x peripheral support for USB 2.0 device will be available in Q4 2004.

Support for the MCF547x/MCF548x hardware-accelerated encryption in IPShield-IPSec will be available in Q4 2004.

Pricing for a single product license of the ARC MQX RTOS starts at $12,500 and is provided in full source code with no royalties.

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