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NXP launches CortexTM - M0 design competition
By siliconindia
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Friday, 12 February 2010, 18:35 IST
Bangalore: NXP Semiconductors has launched the CortexTM - M0 design competition, the "LPC1100 CortexTM - M0 Design Challenge," to encourage and inspire India's vast technical community to design and develop innovative embedded solutions. This is a global design challenge that is open to students, embedded developers and entrepreneurs from all over India and the rest of the world.
Microcontrollers are used in a myriad of applications, and are an essential building block of embedded systems. The applications that can be created are limited only to the creativity and innovative thinking of the designers to address the needs of consumers and industry. "This initiative from NXP Semiconductors is designed to boost the Indian Electronic System Design and Manufacturing Ecosystems by making available the latest Cortex-M0 processor-based 32-bit microcontrollers and tools, giving the Indian design community an opportunity to develop world-class products that can compete with global peers," said Ashok Chandak, Senior Director, Global Sales and Marketing, NXP Semiconductors India.
The Design Challenge comes at a time when the Indian industry as a whole is gearing up to meet the need to reduce the hardware import bill by 2020, while the government of India and the state of Karnataka are promoting the development of the semiconductors ecosystem in India.
NXP Semiconductors will provide free LPCXpresso development tools to qualified contestants who apply to enter the "LPC1100 Cortex-M0 Design Challenge." The worldwide Design Challenge is scheduled to run from January 25 to June 7, 2010.
