Product category:
Embedded Computing and Control
News Release from: Cambridge Microprocessor Systems | Subject: QuickFire
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 13 November 2003
Budget price for speedy embedded
controller
The QuickFire range of low-cost high-performance embedded controllers is suitable for many industrial, scientific and commercial applications.
The QuickFire range of low-cost high-performance embedded controllers is suitable for many industrial, scientific and commercial applications Designed and manufactured in the UK, QuickFire is powered by a 16/32bit, 68000 controller with 1Mbyte of Flash memory and 512Kbyte of battery-backed static RAM
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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All models in the range have a clock speed of 33MHz, five times that of a standard 68000.
A 66MHz option is also available.
Measuring only 100 x 110mm, QuickFire has one RS232 and a further RS232/RS485 serial port, two serial peripheral interface buses (SPI), two 16bit PWM outputs and two 16bit timer/counters.
The controller also provides up to 76 general-purpose, user configurable, digital I/O channels, on board power management and a graphic LCD interface with colour option.
Also available is a module expansion connector in the form of a 68000 bus that allows extra memory and peripherals to be added.
All software development tools make use of Minos, the CMS proprietary, real time, multitasking operating system that was developed specifically to work in an embedded control environment and makes I/O devices simple to use by removing all device-specific code from the user if required.
Both Minos and the development pack are licensed on a royalty free, unlimited copy basis that allows it to be used free of charge on all QuickFire controllers.
The system can be programmed in C or assembler and the C development pack includes everything required including a crosscompiler, 68000 assembler, debugger, linker, "make" utility, editor, library manager and source level debug plus full documentation.
The code written for a particular QuickFire controller can be used on any other controller in the range thus allowing the user to migrate to the most suitable controller for any specific application without having to rewrite the code.
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