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Freescale 68K Coldfire

Freescale Coldfire is the leading microcontroller processor for legacy applications. Freescale offer a range of CF products to meet the needs of a broad set of OEM developers for:

  • automotive
  • aerospace
  • military
  • consumer
  • communications
  • industrial
  • and other applications.

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    The Coldfire is currently the only processor offered by Freescale that RoweBots supports because because it is the only true microcontroller. Many users are comfortable with the archtecture and history of the processor. The combination of 32 bit processing with extensive legacy code gives the Freescale ColdFire the features it needs to excell in many embedded applications.

    For many years the dominate processor for real-time and embedded applications, the Coldfire platform is reliable, well understood and flexible, meeting users needs for a broad set of applications. With floating point support, it is capable of performing well in low end signal processing applications.

    Freescale Coldfire has complete Unison RTOS support. This ultra tiny embedded Linux support includes:

    • System on a chip (SoC) solutions
    • DSP Linux and Posix kernel
    • DSP libraries
    • Complete Posix I/O solutions including: serial, tcp, usb, file system and more
    • Debugging and downloading support
    • Host simulation support
    • Training
    • Support
    • And development support.

    The tiny tiny Unison solution offers the best of embedded development while maintaining a hardware independent and open source solution for microcontrollers.

    Typical Freescale ColdFire applications often involve multiprocessing and distributed processing using a variety of board level products from major vendors. Unison completely supports these approaches by providing both shared memory multicore, shared memory multiprocessor and distributed processor support for a broad set of applications. In addition, Unison offers distributed multicore support – a feature expected from Freescale and others in the next few years.

    Mixed Freescale Coldfire applications with other processors are also possible. Unison offers completely heterogeneous processing. This allows users to apply whatever processor makes the most sense to solve whatever part of the problem they are trying to optimize. A good example is advanced Coldfire communcations processors mixed with other processors for DSP to balance the application.