Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced a free PC software package that speeds and simplifies the development, prototyping and testing of embedded motion control applications built around ARM Cortex-M3 motor control microcontrollers.

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Green Hills Software has announced that its INTEGRITY real-time operating system (RTOS) has been chosen by General Dynamics UK as the operating system software for all the mission-critical computers of the Scout Specialist Vehicles (SV) programme, which General Dynamics UK is developing during the demonstration phase of the programme. 

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Programming Research has released a major upgrade to QA·C++. Version 3.0 is described as a substantial new release and incorporates a sophisticated deep-flow dataflow analysis technology along with support for the major features in ISO C++ 2011.

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Silicon Labs has introduced the Precision32 microcontroller (MCU) family. Based on the ARM Cortex-M3 processor, the new Precision32 family includes 32 SiM3U1xx and SiM3C1xx MCU products with footprint-compatible USB and non-USB options.

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Codenamed "Wolverine" for its aggressive power-saving technology, TI’s latest ultra-low-power MSP430 microcontroller platform claims to offer at least 50 percent less power consumption than any other microcontroller in the industry (360nA real-time clock mode and less than 100 uA/MHz active power consumption).

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Texas Instruments has announced it has qualified a Bluetooth low energy wireless technology controller on its BlueLink 7.0 (BL6450-L) solution.

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Nordic Semiconductor has announced that further to the Bluetooth SIG's official adoption of Bluetooth low energy (as part of the latest Bluetooth Version 4.0 Core Specification), French multi-die system-in-package (SiP) design specialists, Insight SiP, has released the world's first drop-in single mode Bluetooth low energy SiP module.

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Pepper One GmbH has opened Europe's first certification centre for Z-Wave devices.

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Danish company, QEES, has designed a new remote control system based on Z-Wave wireless technology. This enables easy operation of a number of devices including lights, dimmers, shutters and thermostats.

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Libelium, a distributed wireless networks company, has introduced the Waspmote modular platform for wireless sensor networks. The combination of long range and low power enables the deployment of fire detection, flood detection and environmental monitoring networks in very remote locations and with adverse conditions.

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