Responding to the rapid growth of the embedded market in China, Freescale Semiconductor said that it is conducting an online training program designed to familiarize design engineers and electrical engineering students with the company’s microcontroller (MCU) and digital signal controller (DSC) technologies and architectures.
The goal of the training program is to expose more design engineers in China to Freescale flagship MCU/DSC products so they can experience first-hand the ease of design and smooth migration offered by Freescale’s Controller Continuum.
Introduced in the first quarter of 2006, Freescale’s Controller Continuum for consumer and industrial applications features an 8- to 32-bit roadmap with pin-compatible devices designed to share common peripherals and development tools. The RS08KA family of 8-bit microcontrollers provides an ultra-low-end entry point into the Controller Continuum, while the recently announced V1 ColdFire core is the first step toward pin-for-pin compatibility between 8-bit and 32-bit MCUs.
Allen Kwan, director of Asia-Pacific marketing for Freescale’s transportation and standard products group, said, "Embedded control systems are pervasive throughout our lives, often serving as unseen interfaces that provide intelligence and connectivity for countless consumer electronic and industrial control devices. We have designed our microcontroller training program to help designers become more familiar with our MCU offerings and to apply them in their next embedded system designs."
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