Freescale and Nivis Combines Wireless Technologies

Freescale Semiconductor and Nivis  a developer of wireless network technologies, have announced plans to combine their respective technologies to provide a total wired-to-wireless platform for commercial and industrial sensor mesh networks. The combined hardware/software platform solution includes sensor interface, radio module, router/gateway, security manager and advanced network manager capabilities for emerging wireless standards in the industrial and commercial sector.

"This breakthrough collaboration between Nivis and Freescale brings to market a development platform serving as a building block for a wide range of commercial and industrial wireless solutions," said Marius Chilom, CEO of Nivis.

The Freescale and Nivis development platform is designed to provide developers with a way to evaluate ISA100.11a, WirelessHART and 6LoWPAN stacks on Freescale microcontrollers (MCUs) and embedded processors. Nivis contributes the software, and Freescale provides the embedded hardware options. The platform is based on FreescaleÃ's broad portfolios of ColdFire microcontrollers, Power Architecture processors and processors based on ARM® cores.

"Working together, Freescale and Nivis are delivering a comprehensive wireless sensor network solution designed to provide an exceptional range of hardware and software application completeness," said Aiden Mitchell, director of industrial and multi-market microcontrollers at Freescale.

Posted to the site on 14th October 2008