And Then There is One Less….

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Embedded compiler and tool companies are endangered species. When I first joined Whitesemiths, the whole C compiler market was still new. Since then, there must have been at least a dozen DOS/Windows C compiler companies that have come and gone, and probably even more embedded C compiler companies have disappeared in the same period. A popular trend is for silicon vendors to buy up compiler companies, nominally to ensure that they have full support for their chips. Motorola bought Hiware a few years back, and now Microchip just purchased Hi-Tech software. Among embedded compiler companies that support multiple platforms, we […]

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Product Development Update

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There are only about 50-100 assembly lines (if that) in the core executive portion of eMOS, but like all other executives, it takes blood, sweat, and tear to get it right. After a night of hardcore debugging, I am happy to say that eMOS for 430 is alive with the messaging routines working quite well. A bits more testing and code cleanup, and modifying the documentation and it’s good to go. As per design, only3-4 lines of C code need to change, to accommodate the difference between AVR and the MSP430 (other than the device specific code of course). There

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New Year, New Challenges, New Plans

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One aspect being a small company is that we can and often need to move fast. Back in 1996 or so, we were one of the first embedded compiler companies to have  a presence on the web. To wit, guess how many variation of imagecraft and imagecraftXYZ .com .net etc. are out there? In response to the current financial situation, we need to make changes in our plans. First and foremost, we will continue the path began by the eMOS release – we will add more software stacks to our offering. It makes sense for the customers and it makes

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eMOS for TI MSP430

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We are now porting eMOS to the TI MSP430. The TI MSP430 excels at minimizing power consumption, and with eMOS’ system hooks to shut down the system when it is quiescent, eMOS is a good fit for the MSP430 family. We expect porting and testing will take about a month so production release should be around the beginning of March.

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FileSys and SD modules, plus eMOS update

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First, a quick update on eMOS: we have modified the eMOS_MsgReceive function to include a timeout value, so that the call may timeout if no message is received within the specified time period. A couple minor functions are also added. See the doc for details. // EDIT: yes, the goal is to support both FAT16 and FAT32. Long File Name under FAT32 may require end user to pay Microsoft a licensing fee of $0.25 per copy used, or we may support a different LFN implemenation We are now looking into our first plug-in module for eMOS, which is a file

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