Freescale Unveils VortiQa Platform Services Package

Freescale (News - Alert) Semiconductor has introduced the VortiQa Platform Services Package (PSP), which the company states will speed the development of embedded software for Freescale's multicore QorIQ and QorIQ Qonverge products.

By minimizing bare-metal coding tasks and shifting more application development to the familiar Linux user space, VortiQa PSP streamlines development. Allowing for faster, higher quality and more cost-efficient applications, this expands the pool of qualified software candidates.

“We are pleased to offer our customers this comprehensive embedded user space software framework with our newest VortiQa software package,” said Sathyan Iyengar, vice president of Software Products for Freescale's Networking and Multimedia Solutions Group. “With the increased sophistication of multicore processors such as Freescale's QorIQ products, user space programming minimizes development efforts, helps to unleash the full performance potential of our products and reduces overall total costs of software development and maintenance.”

For embedded networking products such as enterprise routers, security appliances, application optimization devices, web application firewalls, wireless infrastructure devices and data center appliances such as application delivery controllers, VortiQa PSP is ideal for development.

Targeting Freescale's data path acceleration architecture (DPAA) – highly advanced technology integrated into the company's QorIQ multicore processors – the new solution provides developers an abstraction layer for software development. Helping to mitigate potential licensing situations that exist with loadable kernel modules (LKM), VortiQa PSP also allows developers to migrate software to QorIQ products in addition to speeding software creation.

In other news, Digi International (News - Alert) recently announced collaboration with Freescale Semiconductor to integrate the secure and scalable iDigi Device Cloud solution into Freescale's leading Kinetis and ColdFire microcontroller platforms.

Using the iDigi Connector, an open interface for any type of device, Kinetis and ColdFire customers now have immediate access to both a web and mobile applications development platform and world class device management functionality.

The iDigi Device Cloud delivers Any App, Anything, Anywhere capabilities to every connected Freescale Kinetis and ColdFire based device. Designed to be massively scalable and secure, iDigi is a complete and proven cloud infrastructure for remote device management and cloud-based information exchange.