Generally speaking I’m not so interested in hearing news along the lines of
“We’re Company A and we want to tell you that Company B is using our product.” Of course I understand why
Company A wants to get the news out, but most of the time I think
“So what? How does this make my little corner of the world a better place?”
Having said this, this particular news item pushed a lot of my “hot buttons”. First of all it comes from the folks at
Energy Micro, who are based in Oslo Norway. If you check out their website (
www.EnergyMicro.com), you will see that they come across as being a great bunch of guys and gals that you would like to meet and work with. Since I recently had a wonderful time in Norway in general and Oslo in particular [see
Norwegian Odyssey (Stardate 19987+6)], I’m now kicking myself that I didn’t give them a call and drop round to see them … maybe next time.
Three more of my hot buttons are that this involves
microcontrollers,
low power, and
e-paper displays. I love the concept of e-paper and I can’t wait for full-color versions to come out. I bet that sometime in my lifetime I will get to see print magazines in which some of the images are formed using e-paper and are dynamic.
Anyway, on this basis, I’m happy to post this news article in its entirety as follows:
Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller and radio company, announces an agreement with Pervasive Displays Inc. (PDI) for using the EFM32 Gecko MCU to control low power e-paper (EPD) displays. The collaboration between the two companies will enable developers to reduce development time for applications based on the energy friendly EFM32 EPD platform.
Energy Micro’s Taiwan distribution and design partner, Retronix, provided technical and commercial support during the development of a new reference design to support the alliance.
