DESIGN IDEAS
- CMOS
IC Makes Low-Cost Digital Potentiometer
- Power
Management In The ST62
- Automatic Power-Off
Circuit Saves Battery
- Simple
PC Smart Card Reader Enhancement
- Digital
Position Encoder Does Away With ADC
-
Single-Supply RS-232
Transmission Without Level-Translator ICs
-
µC Controls Charge
Pump As Background Task
- Clock
Multiplier Circumvents
PLL
- Drive Smart
Cards With A Low-Cost MCU's UART
- Wireless “Battery”
Energizes Low-Power Devices
- Harvest
Energy Using A Piezoelectric Buzzer
- Drive A Single-Coil Latching Relay Without An
H-Bridge CircuitDESIGN CONTESTS
- The
Mobile Phonebook
- The CheckPoint
Charlie
- The
Lord Of The Keys
- MoneyPenny
- Enigma
- Bye Bye Standby
- Flower
Power
ARTICLES
- Mobile
Phone Book: M16C/62P Based Data Backup System
- Internet Password Manager
- RFID
Payment Terminal
-
Tecnología NFC Para Aplicaciones De Proximidad Seguras
- The Green Standby
- Flower Power
CONTACT
- E-mail
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BYE BYE STANDBY
Top Five Finalist.
June 13, 2008
By Carlos Cossio
"In February, registration for the
FTF Design Challenge Europe (EMEA) opened. The challenge was open to
embedded designers in France, Italy, United Kingdom, Israel, Finland,
Sweden, Germany, Russia, Spain, Czech Republic, Turkey, Ukraine,
Slovakia, Romania and Switzerland. In June, Freescale selected five
finalists out of the 35 designs that were submitted. The top five
finalists were invited to FTF EMEA in Paris, October 7, 2008 to showcase
their prototypes in the Tech Lab. Conference attendees and challenge participants voted
on the first- and second- and third-place winners".
Freescale Announces Finalists in its
First Green FTF Design Challenge
Top five receive advanced Freescale tools to develop sustainable designs
and compete for cash prizes totaling $61,000
AUSTIN, Texas – 13 June, 2008 – Freescale
Semiconductor today announced the five finalists invited to compete in the
company's first green engineering design contest. The Freescale Technology
Forum (FTF) Design Challenge Europe finalists will strive to develop the
next generation of sustainable embedded systems based on Freescale's
energy-efficient technologies and easy-to-design-with development tools.
Freescale selected five finalists from a field of more than 200 participants
made up of embedded systems developers and engineering students representing
Europe. Each submission was judged on creativity, design efficiency,
technical complexity, number of Freescale devices used, and overall
application innovation to improve the environment.
Each of the five finalists will receive a $1,000 (USD) award, a professional
CodeWarrior® development platform and a video camera to capture their design
building experience. Freescale invites these finalists to develop prototypes
of their designs to be submitted to an expert panel for final judging at FTF
Europe, October 7.
Other International FTF Design Challenges have opened over the past several
months. Freescale will award more finalists' prizes and a first-place winner
in each regional design challenge. In addition to the five first-place
winners receiving $10,000, they will be invited to move on to the Grand FTF
Design Challenge where they can vie for an additional $50,000 in prizes and
a ticket to the FTF 2009 of his or her choice.
Who:
Top Five Finalists (in no particular order):
|
Entry Name |
Finalists' Name
|
Company |
|
ZPP (Zero Power
Platform) |
Stefan Heinbockel
|
Siemens AG |
|
An environmentally
friendly irrigation system |
Erol Aran |
InI Bilisim Ltd. |
|
Kinetic energy
recovery system for vehicles |
Chenghan Li |
Kungliga Tekniska
Högskolan |
|
Smart Heating System |
Jingning Zhang |
Telecom Bretagne |
|
Bye Bye Standby |
Carlos Cossio |
Centro Tecnológico
de Componentes |
|
When:
The finalists will submit their completed prototypes by the September 1,
2008 deadline. Each finalist will receive a cash prize, complimentary
travel and accommodations in addition to free admission to the Freescale
Technology Forum where attendees will vote on the winning prototype.
Freescale will announce the FTF Design Challenge Europe first place
winner who will receive $10,000, second place winner who will receive
$5,000 and third place winner will receive $2,000.
Where:
Freescale Technology Forum Europe
October 7, 2008
InterContinental Paris Le Grand Hotel
Paris, France
Background:
Announced in October 2007, Freescale's FTF Design Challenge invites
embedded designers worldwide to “go green”, rewarding the most inventive
design teams with cash prizes and high-profile recognition. The
challenge includes free technical training and a professional
CodeWarrior development platform that supports a range of Freescale's
technologies.
About Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor is a global leader in the design and manufacture
of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial,
networking and wireless markets. The privately held company is based in
Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing
or sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale is one of the
world's largest semiconductor companies with 2007 sales of $5.7 billion
(USD). www.freescale.com
About the Freescale Technology Forum
Created to inspire innovation and collaboration, the Freescale
Technology Forum (FTF) has become the developer event of the year for
the embedded semiconductor industry. The Forum, which debuted in 2005,
has drawn nearly 20,000 attendees at FTF events worldwide since its
inception. For more information about FTF events, go to
http://www.freescale.com/ftf.
Media Contacts
Europe, Middle East and Africa
Laurent Massicot
Freescale Semiconductor
(33-16) 935-7712
laurent.massicot@freescale.com
Freescale and the Freescale logo are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All
other product or service names are the property of their respective
owners. © Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. 2008.
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