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What are Embedded Containers?

Following its success in the cloud and IT world, the adoption of containers is gaining momentum in the embedded world due to the real business and technical value they deliver. They can effectively address some of the most pressing challenges faced by the embedded industry, such as the costly and time-consuming outdated development methods, and the cumbersome process of porting software components to other projects.

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Top Considerations When Choosing an Embedded IoT Web Server

An embedded web server is a small, lightweight web server designed to be integrated into other software or hardware systems with limited resources. When it comes to IoT devices, choosing an embedded web server is a decision that can greatly impact performance and costs. These small web servers are essential for providing a web-based interface for monitoring and controlling devices, but there are several challenges to their development that must be addressed.

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What You Need to Know About GUI for Embedded Systems

Picture yourself as an embedded developer, challenged with the task of building a GUI for an embedded systems, for example sportwatch that needs to display a wealth of information, from health and fitness stats to text messages and social media updates. But how can you create a user-friendly interface that's both responsive and power-efficient, given the device's limited resources and processing power?

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Why Use JavaScript for Embedded Systems Development

Javascript is gaining recognition as a versatile programming language for embedded systems development. Its rise in popularity can be attributed to its usefulness in rapidly prototyping and testing product ideas. The high-level abstractions offered by JavaScript make the development process easier and more efficient.

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[PODCAST EE Journal] The Future of Embedded Systems: Sustainability, Containerization and Servitization

In today's fast-paced technological world, it's crucial to stay ahead of the curve in the embedded systems industry. In this podcast episode, Amelia Dalton from EE Journal interviews Semir Haddad, our Chief Product and Strategy Officer, on the current and future biggest influences of embedded systems development. Semir highlights the two major trends that are impacting the embedded systems industry: sustainability, containerization and servitization.

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MicroEJ Showcases Major Software-Defined Innovations in All IoT Verticals at CES 2023

MicroEJ unveiled major news in the fields of wearable design, energy management, Edge AI, and embedded security at CES 2023. Learn about its latest announcements for a software-defined world. During the event, MicroEJ announced ground-breaking advancements in software-defined everything, turning fixed-function IoT products into a network of programmable devices with upgradable features and distributed intelligence.

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Versilicon and MicroEJ Interview: Looking back on Embedded World 2022

MicroEJ attended Embedded World 2022, one of the famous IoT events in Germany that offers the opportunity to exchange and maintain valuable contacts with our partners and customers. Our partner VeriSilicon introduced on its booth how our software container MICROEJ VEE and their IP solution provide manufacturers a turnkey solution to design rich user interfaces experiences on resource-constrained embedded devices. Take a look at our interview with Martyn Humphries SVP & GM Worldwide Sales & Advanced Platforms at VeriSilicon, to know more about our solution:

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Looking Back on CES 2022 / MICROEJ RUNS AROUND THE WORLD

MicroEJ exhibited at the biggest electronics and world innovation show for the sixth year: the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas from January 5th to 7th. Following the cancellation of the CES 2021 in person format due to the Covid-19 pandemic, our MicroEJ team was eager to announce exciting news to visitors and journalists welcomed at the booth.

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INTERVIEW: MicroEJ revolutionized the embedded software world while leveraging a community of 35 million engineers.

The digitalization of the world generates more than 100 billion electronic objects per year, or almost 10 electronic objects per person every year. In this gigantic global market that is reshaping most industries, MicroEJ has established itself internationally as the alternative to Android Things for all everyday electronic objects (except smartphones), whether connected or not. Let's talk with the CEO Fred Rivard, to learn more about the "software containers" market and MicroEJ, which allows the largest community of engineers in the world to create intelligent electronic objects in a fast and cost-effective way.

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WHITE PAPER: Chip Shortage Mitigation

Learn how software containers helps you support double-sourcing policies at no extra costs to keep production running, even in a global chip shortage crisis.

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WHITE PAPER: Software Factory for Embedded Systems

Smart devices development is one of the fastest growing areas of computing. But as the market grows, so does the sophistication of the devices, which highlights the great weaknesses of rigid development methods. The fact is, legacy development methods are simply too slow for today’s competitive market. In this White Paper, find out how to turn your software into your most powerful asset and enable x3 faster product launches through real-life client cases.

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MicroEJ Brings the “Smart” into Smart Things at CES 2020

While MicroEJ was attending CES for the fifth consecutive year, the 2020 edition generated unmatched excitement with the announcement of prestigious partnerships and new releases of “Powered-by MicroEJ” IoT products. 2019 has been a pivotal year for MicroEJ. With the decisive refocusing of Android Things on smart speakers and smart displays, MicroEJ’s unique on-device platform became the de-facto standard for all electronic manufacturers seeking optimal performance on low-cost hardware, fast product development and easy scalability. Therefore, CES 2020 was the ideal time to reveal to the world the latest position of MicroEJ for the evolving IoT industry.

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MicroEJ Developer Website Has Had a Makeover!

As the embedded space for IoT devices evolves, MicroEJ customers’ expectations grow. Therefore, our website dedicated to developers has been rebuilt to be streamlined and to the point; in order to help finding the information needed to start building smart, connected IoT devices.

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MicroEJ adds GUI and Bluetooth support to Murata Type 1LD Wi-Fi+BLE combo

Murata and MicroEJ collaborated to support the ultra-small Wi-Fi + Bluetooth combo module through a specific development board, Type1LD EVB  MicroEJ is providing its leading trusted Virtual Execution Environment (VEE), mixing C and Java technologies for IoT application development.

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Connect and Manage IoT Devices at Scale with Google Cloud IoT Core

MicroEJ’s partnership with Google Cloud IoT Core takes care of the “plumbing” between your device and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for a seamless IoT connectivity. That way, you never have to worry about updating or changing the firmware that sits at the bottom of your product.

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Smart Home Appliances – Key challenges software must overcome

Over the last few years, the smart home appliance market has been largely influenced by the smartphone industry. Customers expects nice graphical user interfaces (GUI), smooth page scrolling, Internet connectivity and the ability to add more features as our user experience is evolving.

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MicroEJ is positioned as the tiny sibling of Android™ for connected objects

In an exclusive interview with Lembarqué.com, Fred Rivard, the CEO and founder of MicroEJ, explains why the embedded applications environment MICROEJ VEE (Virtual Execution Environment) is now qualified as the "tiny sibling of Android™", a name today duly accepted by the giant Google™ itself. MICROEJ VEE has become recognized as the standard solution for “Things", to make them more intelligent, secure, and especially, low consumption.

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Back from Google Next Conference: Zebra shares its IoT transformation with MicroEJ and Google Cloud

Top corporations are looking to evolve legacy product lines into "connected" offerings to enable new on-demand capabilities, but designing smart applications and deploying them anywhere, to any device is still a challenge. In this session, you'll learn how MicroEJ addresses the challenge of supporting fleets of devices that operate on heterogeneous hardware and embedded software versions by leveraging Google Cloud IoT connectivity.

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MicroEJ: Looking back at CES 2019 in Las Vegas!

For the 4th consecutive year, we participated in CES alongside of other start-ups and established companies. All of them came to present products and prototypes that appeared more surprising than each other.

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3 Reasons why you should consider prototyping your electronic devices

We always talk about prototyping a website or a mobile application. Have you ever heard of prototyping IoT and embedded products?

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MicroEJ Forum is launched!

MicroEJ launched its community forum this week as another way to extend the MicroEJ platform towards the community of 8 million+ Java developers in order to stay connected. This forum is aimed to help the developers accelerate the development of smart, connected, IoT devices, powered by MicroEJ.

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Internet of mobiles and PCs vs. Internet of Things: comparison of ecosystems and technology suppliers

Read the comprehensive comparison of two popular technological ecosystems - the Internet of Mobiles and PCs, and the Internet of Things.

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From static embedded systems to dynamic embedded software extensions

This is a summary of the different types of embedded systems, from programmable embedded systems or completely static systems to dynamic embedded software extensions. MicroEJ Store can help manufacturers adapt features to technical changes and business environments across all their deployed devices.

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A unique face to the world!

IS2T changes its identity and becomes MicroEJ. In order to clarify and strengthen its identity and present a unique face to the world, our company Industrial Smart Software Technology (IS2T S.A.) is now operating under the brand name MicroEJ®.

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MicroEJ included in the RZ Display It – HMI Solution Kit

The RZ Display IT - HMI Solution Kit family of microprocessors includes MicroEJ. Specifically designed for embedded HMI applications, the RZ Microprocessor family includes up to 10MB of embedded RAM so that you don't need external RAM for video buffers. It drives excellent screen performances and makes your designs much easier, simpler, and cost effective. The RZ/A1 also includes the standard connectivity that you can expect to find on an HMI: CAN, USB, and Ethernet.

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MicroEJ Demo on the STM32F439 Eval Board

This video is a demonstration of what can be quickly done with the MicroEJ SDK. This is a small Java application of an email client. It runs on a STM32F434 board from STMicroelectronics (ARM Cortex-M4 @168MHz, 32-bit 640x480 LCD display), supporting ST ChromART and transparency.

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5 top reasons for using Java in embedded systems

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STM32Java development environment for STM32 microcontrollers

The STM32Java development environment provides everything needed to build embedded Java applications supported by STM32 MCU series. It includes an IDE with a Java compiler, several Java platforms especially optimized for STM32 MCUs, standard libraries and related tools.