NXP Semiconductors has announced the NXP Platform Accelerator, developed in collaboration with MicroEJ. The NXP Platform Accelerator leverages MICROEJ VEE software containers with standard APIs to bring a smartphone-like software design process experience to the industrial and IoT edge. The use of MICROEJ VEE enables software portability across NXP’s broad portfolio of RTOS-based MCUs and Linux-based Applications Processors, enabling manufacturers to significantly accelerate new product development and reduce costs. Furthermore, the NXP Platform Accelerator provides dedicated APIs to create easy access to advanced functionalities integrated in NXP’s processor portfolio, such as power management and 3D/2D graphics.
“Just like what happened in the smartphone industry, containerization can be a tremendous tool to drive the rapid development of new smart device platforms,” said Charles Dachs, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Industrial and IoT Edge, NXP. “By integrating MicroEJ’s software container with NXP’s broad portfolio of edge processing solutions, we equip engineers to bring more products to market faster, with reduced costs, and to support the continuous evolution of their smart devices across industrial and IoT markets.”
“Software portability and BoM optimization are often mutually exclusive,” said Fred Rivard, CEO of MicroEJ. “The NXP Platform Accelerator combines these two objectives, thanks to tiny software containers. This small-footprint innovation allows developers to benefit from both an optimized bill of materials and a modern software design process. This enables engineers to create new products and platforms more quickly, design products that are lower power and lower cost, while still allowing for feature-rich differentiation and innovation by device manufacturers.”