Ember Wins Industry Honors."Top Emerging Technology Company" Says UK's NMI (NonMaskable Interrupt) A high-priority interrupt that cannot be disabled by another interrupt. It is used to report malfunctions such as parity, bus and math coprocessor errors. NMI - Non-Maskable Interrupt EM260 Named One of "2006'S Hottest Products," by Sensors Magazine BOSTON -- Ember Corporation received two industry honors last month from both sides of the Atlantic. The National Microelectronics Institute (NMI) - the UK's trade association for the microelectronics industry - named Ember its "Top Emerging Technology Company" for 2006, while Ember's EM260 ZigBee network co-processor was chosen as one of the "50 Hottest Products of 2006" by the editors of U.S.-based Sensors Magazine. The NMI award stems from Ember's growing influence in Europe thanks to its Wireless IC Design Center in Cambridge, England. The Center, which has grown significantly this year, developed two of the industry's most innovative semiconductors, including the first ZigBee system-on-a-chip integrating both radio and microcontroller A single chip that contains the processor (the CPU), non-volatile memory for the program (ROM or flash), volatile memory for input and output (RAM), a clock and an I/O control unit. : the EM250, as well as the first ZigBee network co-processor, the EM260. Sensors Magazine selected the EM260 as a hot product because it offers the most flexible way to integrate ZigBee into commercial products. The honor was highlighted in the magazine's November 2006 issue. The EM260 "lets OEMs embed em·bed also im·bed v. em·bed·ded, em·bed·ding, em·beds v.tr. 1. To fix firmly in a surrounding mass: embed a post in concrete; fossils embedded in shale. wireless networking See wireless network. capabilities into their products using any number of microcontrollers," the editors said. It allows OEMs to choose their preferred microcontroller to run their application, while letting the EM260 handle all the ZigBee networking functionality. This unique approach means OEMs don't have to port an entire ZigBee protocol stack The set of protocols used in a communications network. A protocol stack is a prescribed hierarchy of software layers, starting from the application layer at the top (the source of the data being sent) to the data link layer at the bottom (transmitting the bits on the wire). onto their microcontrollers, freeing up more memory and processing resources for the application. "These accolades are a testament to the quality and innovativeness of the Ember team," said Robert LeFort, Ember's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "It's gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. to see the industry validate what our customers have been telling us." About the NMI The NMI is the semiconductor trade association representing firms in the UK and Ireland. A not-for-profit, the NMI has a charter to upgrade business systems and the industry infrastructure by providing activities and services for all stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. in the sector. These include business networks, technical forums, knowledge databases, funding support, capability mapping, voice-of-the industry, education and training. About Sensors Magazine Sensors Magazine was launched in 1984 to help engineers and engineering managers understand and apply sensing devices. Since then it has won numerous awards for editorial excellence and has gained a superior reputation among its 65,000 subscribers and the industry at large. Known for delivering the in-depth technical information that engineers need, Sensors helps people worldwide meet challenging design objectives. For further information, visit www.sensorsmag.com. ZigBee: Wireless Control That Simply Works The ZigBee Alliance is an association of companies working together to enable reliable, cost-effective, low-power, wirelessly networked monitoring and control products based on an open global standard. The ZigBee Alliance is a rapidly growing, non-profit industry consortium of leading semiconductor manufacturers, technology providers, OEMs, and end-users worldwide. Membership is open to all. Additional information can be found at www.zigbee.org. About Ember Corporation Ember enables communication among embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. microcontrollers with standards-based wireless mesh networking (1) A network that relies on all nodes to propagate signals. Although the wireless signal may start at some base station (access point) attached to a wired network, a wireless mesh network extends the transmission distance by relaying the signal from one computer to another. semiconductors and software. Ember helps its customers to automate home appliances, lower energy consumption in buildings, keep borders and infrastructure secure, and control industrial processes, just to name four of the many diverse applications being developed by Ember's customers. Ember is headquartered in Boston and has its radio development center in Cambridge, England and distributors worldwide. Ember is a lead member of the ZigBee Alliance, and its platform is the National Technical Systems' (NTS NTS National Technical Systems NTS National Trust for Scotland NTS Nevada Test Site NTS NT Server (Microsoft Windows) nts Not the Same NTS National Traffic System (amateur radio) ) "Golden Suite" for 802.15.4/ZigBee interoperability testing. For more information, please visit www.ember.com. |
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