ARM Flexes Mbed, RTOSes Respond

Rick Merritt, EETimes
11/13/2015 00:00 AM EST

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — ARM showed expanded support and reach of its Mbed operating system while some customers and competitors debated its impact on the Internet of Things at the company’s annual event here.

ARM displayed a wall of 78 devices using Mbed from companies including Atmel, Freescale, Nordic, NXP, Renesas, Silicon Labs and STMicroelectronics. Alcatel-Lucent, IBM, Maxim and Qualcomm were among other partners using the code or providing services for it.

The new version 3.0 supports a hardware security architecture for microcontrollers launched at the event and promises to build in support for new IoT standards such as Thread.

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