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EFM32howto 6. How to create cost-effective industrial automation devices?

May 9, 2013 by energymicro

‘ “Combining Tiny Gecko with energy harvesting technology demonstrates that a modern 32-bit processor is the right solution for cost- and space-sensitive energy-efficient applications such as wireless switchgear” - Andreas Schenk, Product Manager Wireless of Steute – Industrial automation devices are widely used to detect, process, and respond to any changes of machinery and plant systems at production sites. With a variety of wireless sensors including temperature, pressure, vibration and motion functions, a whole production system can be managed with no […]

Categories: All, Application tips • Tags: EFM32howto, energymode, industrial, sensor

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Guest Post: Investigating the energy consumption of a carbon monoxide detector with EFM32 tools

May 7, 2013 by energymicro

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could minimize the number of hardware tools and connections for your embedded prototypes and applications? In a recent road test on element14, Wojciech Gelmuda uses his EFM32 Starter Kit to measure the current consumption of an external application without the need for additional oscilloscopes or multimeters. Here you can read in Wojciech’s own words how you can do the same. Prolog I have measured the power consumption of this detector that I got recently. […]

Categories: All, Application tips • Tags: element14, energyAware Profiler, energyharvesting, STK

#EFM32howto 5. Designing wearable sports and fitness devices with multiple-functions

May 2, 2013 by energymicro

“Our adaptive algorithm, which accounts for the effects of workload, micro bubbles and temperature for every dive, is more advanced basic time/pressure based diving algorithms. However, the added complexity requires extreme calculation power and energy efficiency that only Energy Micro’s 32-bit MCUs can provide.” – Reima Holopainen, R&D Manager of UWATEC AG – Do you think high functional sports and fitness devices are only for sports professionals and gym rats? Probably not according to ABI research’s study on wearable sports […]

Categories: All, Application tips • Tags: 32bit, efm32hotwo, fitness, portable, sport, wearable

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ARM, Energy Micro to work together for training the next generation of engineers

May 1, 2013 by energymicro

Imagine that you take your electronic engineering course with the EFM32 STKs and learn about the actual microcontrollers and design tools in your class. Energy Micro joined ARM’s university education program as a partner to increase resources for training the next generation of engineers. Oslo, Norway, 23 April 2013 – Energy Micro, a company specialising in energy friendly microcontrollers and radio, has been selected by ARM® to help extend its long-running university program through a focus on the ARM Cortex®-M […]

Categories: All, News • Tags: arm, education, lizardlabs, Student, teacher, Training, University

From AVR to ARM: The shift to 32-bit MCUs in the embedded world

April 24, 2013 by energymicro

Alf-Egil Bogen, CMO of Energy Micro, talks about the migration from AVR to ARM based microcontrollers over decades. It is interesting to see how microprocessor architectures have gone from being a significant differentiator to being a “not important” factor. Being one of the inventors of the AVR the transition to ARM has been a long journey. How long will this trend last and what is next? Since late 70´s, microcontrollers have rapidly been replacing discrete logic and supporting more features such as […]

Categories: People, All • Tags: mcu, arm, CMO, AVR, histroy

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Tips for international applicants and how to attract them

April 23, 2013 by energymicro

Åslaug, the Director of Finance and administration at Energy Micro, describes her typical work day at Energy Micro and gives some advice to both international applicants and companies in Norway Country of Origin Norway Education Economics (MBA), Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration 1989 Current Job Position Director of Finance and Administration Q1. What made you apply for a job at Energy Micro? I saw an advertisement for an open position in Aftenposten which is the major newspaper in […]

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#EFM32howto 4. Ensuring safe access to your low power security systems

April 22, 2013 by energymicro

CCTVs, alarm systems, and security sensors replace human surveillance against thieves and any unforeseen fire and smoke accidents. Also the high crime rate in urban areas causes city dwellers to have extensive advanced security systems around their residential areas. In addition to such defensive purposes, the increasing use of smart card readers requires high-end solutions to ensure safe transactions and to protect personal information. In order to satisfy such high-end security demands, it is necessary to provide secure and long […]

Categories: All, Application tips • Tags: AES, alarm, creditcard, doorlock, EFM32howto, security

Beer temperature tester using EFM32 Giant Gecko development kit

April 19, 2013 by energymicro

Answering the question of life, universe and everything – What is the temperature of the beer? This project was conceived during after-hours on the roof of our office in Nydalen, where we were sitting in the sun splitting a case of beer. The problem was that the sun was heating the beer and in order to minimize the heating of each beer, we wanted to know which beer in the case was hottest and thus was the next in line […]

Categories: All, Hack-a-Gecko • Tags: efm32, hackagecko, temperature

Future Female Engineers visit Energy Micro

April 15, 2013 by energymicro

Last Wednesday, we had special visitors from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) at the Energy Micro office in Oslo. The twenty eight female students were from the girl project, Ada, which was established with the aim to recruit more female engineering students and help them complete their studies through various academic and social events. The Energy Micro team was excited to have the future female engineers in the office, and had prepared a small tour to introduce […]

Categories: All, Event • Tags: Ada, Energy Micro, femaleengineers, Internship, Student

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Lizard Labs 4. Updating firmware on your development kit with energyAware Commander

April 12, 2013 by energymicro

Lizard Labs is a new online training program provided by Energy Micro. The purpose of Lizard Labs is for EFM32 users to get started with EFM32 microcontrollers and learn about some of the main EFM32 features that the users can take advantage of. Each training module covers a specific topic, and the modules are divided into levels. A higher level module may assume that the viewer is already familiar with the topics in the lower levels. Visit our Lizard Labs page for more […]

Categories: All, Learn about mcu • Tags: efm32, lizardlabs, simplicity studio, Training

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EFM32howto 6. How to create cost-effective industrial automation devices?

Guest Post: Investigating the energy consumption of a carbon monoxide detector with EFM32 tools

#EFM32howto 5. Designing wearable sports and fitness devices with multiple-functions

ARM, Energy Micro to work together for training the next generation of engineers

From AVR to ARM: The shift to 32-bit MCUs in the embedded world

Tips for international applicants and how to attract them

#EFM32howto 4. Ensuring safe access to your low power security systems

Beer temperature tester using EFM32 Giant Gecko development kit

Future Female Engineers visit Energy Micro

Lizard Labs 4. Updating firmware on your development kit with energyAware Commander

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