The Make It Challenge featuring Kinetis MCUs is Freescale's latest design contest.
Participants compete by developing an innovative embedded application design using one of Freescale's Kinetis product families.
Kinetis microcontrollers feature the latest low-power innovations and high-performance, high-precision mixed-signal capability.
Freescale's 32-bit Kinetis MCUs represent the most scalable portfolio of ARM® Cortex™-M4 MCUs in the industry.
Eligible participants reside in the Americas, completed a short online training class and passed a quiz before submitting a design paper to
become one of the 10 semi-finalists.
Attendees of ARM Technology conference 2011 viewed the top 10 prototype videos and selected the top three finalists.
Announcing the the placement of Make It Challenge featuring Kinetis MCUs top 3 finalists:
Congratulations! The top three, in addition to cash prizes, they have all won complimentary admission to FTF 2012.
A big "Thank You!" to all of the participants and our partners. It's inspiring to see the level of creativity and innovation
in these designs using Kinetis MCUs!
Read more about
our exciting challenge and
Jim Trudeau’s blog entry in the Embedded Beat blog.
Featured Software and Tools
- CMX-RTX RTOS and CMX-MicroNet TCP/IP
CMX Systems, well-known designer of Real-Time Operating Systems, TCP/IP, Flash File Systems and USB software, is featuring its widely deployed CMX-RTX real time operating system and small footprint CMX-MicroNet TCP/IP stack for the Kinetis Make It Challenge.
- FreeRTOS
The cross platform standard kernel solution for MCUs. 1 kernel ported to 27 microcontroller cores, and 17 tool chains
- Micrium - µC/OS-III
Thoroughly documented, professional-quality RTOS components. Participants can download easy-to-use example projects that incorporate full source code
- Freescale MQX™ Software Solutions
Complimentary MQX RTOS, File system, USB and TCP/IP. Proven and Full-Feature RTOS and middleware: Security, Medical, etc.
- Segger emBOS
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SEGGER Microcontroller is offering their Cross Platform RTOS, Fail Safe File System, Extremely Fast TCP/IP Stack, and Professional Graphics Package for use in the Kinetis Make It Challenge.
- Download Getting Started with Segger - SEGGER eval software components and samples
- For one of the semi-finalist, we will provide 1 Full Commercial Developer License for embOS for the Cortex-M/IAR platform, 1 J-Link PRO (Debug Probe) & 1 Flasher ARM (Production Flash Programmer)
Make It Challenge: Kinetis MCUs Prizes
This contest will award $1,000 to each top ten semifinalist and one cash prize each to first-, second- and third-place participants.
In addition, the top three finalists will receive complimentary admission to FTF 2012 and a complimentary trip to Austin, TX, November 15-17, 2011 to showcase their physical working prototypes.
| First Prize: |
$10,000 cash |
| Second Prize: |
$5,000 cash |
| Third Prize: |
$2,000 cash |
Read the
Official Rules for further information and requirements.
Key Dates
| July 11 - August 1 |
Register and complete the online training and quiz.
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| August 1 |
Last day to submit your design paper. See guidelines and load paper. |
| August 15 |
Ten semi-finalists announced. |
| October 17 |
Ten semi-finalist - Last day to submit video files of working prototypes. See guidelines and load video. |
| October 25-27 |
Videos displayed and voted on at ARM Tech Conference 2011. Voters will be entered in daily Amazon Kindle drawings, see official rules and coupon details |
| October 27 |
Top three finalists announced. |
| November 15-17 |
Top three finalists visit Austin to meet Kinetis MCU product experts, demonstrate their working prototypes, and receive awards. |
| November 21 |
Winners are announced on Freescale.com. |
| June 2012 |
Top three winners will receive complimentary registration to attend FTF Americas in June 2012. |
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