2014 was an exciting year.
Clarinox was fortunate to support great clients with leading edge projects, a sample of these are presented in the following case studies Next Generation In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) and A Revolution in Collaboration Solutions: IoT coming to an office (or school) near you.
The year also saw the formation of new partnerships and the strengthening of old ties enabling Clarinox to support an even larger range of platforms. Thanks to ARM, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Freescale, Intel, NXP, IAR, Micrium, GHS, Express Logic, QNX, Apple, Mentor Graphics and Wind River for the ongoing access to the information that we need to deliver innovative solutions to our clients.
2014 was the year of launch of Jannal® IDE and Koala® EVM; these products are a great compliment to the Clarinox Bluetooth® and Wi-Fi® protocol stacks. Together the products help to handle complex use cases, aid debugging and shorten development time.
And 2015 is already shaping up to be an even bigger year for Clarinox Technologies. January will see the announcement of further new case studies of 2014 projects and in February Clarinox will exhibit at Embedded World. Please drop by Embedded World Booth 4-121 or contact us to set up an appointment. Alternatively if you'll be attending the conference please come to listen to our presentation on the role of short range wireless technologies Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to the IoT.
We wish you success for 2015
The Clarinox Team
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CLARINOX: CONNECTING CARS, KOALAS, AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN ...Clarinox assists Daimler deliver next generation Mercedes connected infotainment.
Melbourne, 26 September 2014
In 2011 the United Nations declared internet access to be a human right. As mobile coverage and cheaper phones continue to make that goal a reality, Clarinox has been working at the next frontier – extending connectivity to cars, wearables and other “things”!
Daimler Group is one of the world’s most successful automotive companies – they’re behind not just the Daimler brand but also Mercedes. Daimler’s success is maintained through their focus on innovation; on safe and superior automobiles that appeal and fascinate. When Daimler sought technology partners for an innovative pre-development project, the team of engineering experts they assembled came from every corner of the globe. Together, Green Hills Software and Clarinox provided a robust real time operating system (RTOS) and wireless connectivity platform, combined with extensive experience in wireless product development. This unique solution enabled the creation of a robust multimedia streaming architecture. For this project, Clarinox used the Jannal IDE to streamline the development process. We are pleased to announce the completion of Jannal V1.5, which now includes tailored application support for automotive use cases.
For the full case study see Next Generation In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI), and get in touch if Clarinox can support your connected car initiative.
Clarinox has also enjoyed success beyond cars and the high end processors on which automotive applications are based. With smaller, lighter and less power consuming processors Clarinox is pleased to have the Koala EVM. The Koala EVM is a Cortex M4 STM32F4x based eval board with connectivity added via the TI WiLink8 wireless chipsets. This small, yet powerful, set of components can support all of the Clarinox protocol stacks for Bluetooth Classic, Bluetooth Low Energy and Wi-Fi. The Koala represents a comprehensive offering to enable the most cost effective IOT designs, whether for smart watches, wireless cameras, or health/medical devices. Support is provided for ThreadX and uC/OS-III RTOS today, with Nucleus, FreeRTOS and RTX coming soon.
ClarinoxBlue Bluetooth Smart Ready and TI’s WiLink™ 8 key for Revolutionary SMART kapp™ Digital Capture Board
Melbourne, 25 July 2014
Clarinox Technologies, a leading provider of wireless protocol stack software, is pleased to have provided ClarinoxBlue™ LE ready protocol stack on the Texas Instruments(TI) WiLink™ 8 platform for the recently announced SMART kapp digital capture board. Unveiled at InfoComm 2014, SMART kapp allows users to write, draw, diagram and brainstorm using an ink marker, just as they would with a dry-erase board. But with SMART kapp, co-workers and clients can follow the process in real-time, where everything written on the capture board appears as if by magic on their digital devices. The work is simply saved with SMART’s advanced software and then as a final product as PDFs or JPEGs and then easily shared with anyone, anywhere, instantly.
For the project ClarinoxBlue is integrated on the WiLink™ 8 Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth combo connectivity solution with SYS-BIOS and TMS320C6748. Additionally, the Clarinox built-in Bluetooth protocol analyser provides enhanced visibility and faster debugging.
Trish Messiter, Clarinox CEO says “Clarinox is very proud to assist SMART to bring such an innovative IoT product to the market.”
“SMART’s relationship with Clarinox has been a key part of the development of SMART kapp,” says Warren Barkley, Chief Technology Officer, SMART Technologies. SMART has a reputation for innovation and the protocol stacks from Clarinox on TI’s WiLink™ 8 combo connectivity platform is an ideal fit for SMART kapp.
Mattias Lange, product line manager, Wireless Connectivity Solutions at TI says “It is impressive to see innovative products like the SMART kapp embrace the benefits of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity for easy user interaction. The Clarinox protocol software for real time operating systems adds additional functionality to our WiLink™ 8 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo connectivity family.”
SMART Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of technology solutions that enable inspired collaboration in schools and workplaces around the world by turning group work into a highly interactive, engaging and productive experience. SMART delivers integrated solutions of hardware, software and services, designed for superior performance and ease of use, and remains a world leader in interactive displays.
Clarinox Technologies provides short range wireless protocol stacks and related engineering services for Bluetooth and WiFi. In handling the inherent complexity of the wireless technologies Clarinox allow their customers to be free to concentrate on their innovation.
For more information see this case study or contact Clarinox.
ClarinoxBlue Bluetooth Smart Ready and TI’s WiLink™ 8 key for Revolutionary SMART kapp™ Digital Capture Board
The great revolutions in human history include the Agricultural revolution, the Industrial Revolution and the Digital Revolution.The agricultural revolution saw the shift from hunter gatherer to agriculture and settlement; the industrial revolution saw the shift from agriculture and manual manufacture methods to mechanical and machine based manufacture; the Digital revolution saw the shift from the mechanical to the widespread use of computers and digital record keeping. With each revolution the source of employment for the majority shifted to the new paradigm with massive economic and social impact.
Is the Internet of Things merely an extension of the Digital Revolution? Or will we look back in twenty years' time and identify the Internet of Things as a revolution in its own right?
Whatever the case the IoT era is here; now.
Whether machine to machine, machine to infrastructure, machine to environment , or machine to human, there is a huge explosion in smart connected things that is impacting upon every aspect of our interactions as the recent project with SMART Technologies shows. The ClarinoxBlue Bluetooth Smart Ready protocol stack software integrated to the Texas Instruments WiLinkTM 8 was used for SMART's Revolutionary SMART kappTM Digital Capture Board
For Press Release see below
For full case study see A Revolution in Collaboration Solutions
Bluetooth Qualified Design Listing QDID 58648 for overview and full PICS details see https://www.bluetooth.org/tpg/QLI_viewQDL.cfm?qid=23635
A significant growth in the medical device marketplace can be realized by expanding the market to individuals that can benefit from preventative support and ongoing monitoring of treatments. This will create a market for millions of new devices. Paper published with permission from Embedded Market Researchers.
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New generation of design environment software manages inherent low-level complexity of wireless developments and allows the engineer more time to focus on the end application
Clarinox Technologies, a leading provider of wireless protocol stack software, announces the release of JannalTM Intelligent Design Environment. Jannal software enables design engineers with little RF experience to rapidly plan, create, and test reliable Bluetooth® and Wi-FiTM embedded developments for a wide range of real time operating system (RTOS) and hardware combinations.
Wireless connectivity attracts consumers because it allows a product to take advantage of burgeoning Bluetooth- and Wi-Fi-wireless technology "ecosystems" - dramatically enhancing the device's usefulness. Named for the indigenous Australian word for "place of the Moon", Jannal Intelligent Design Environment is targeted at software engineers who want to enhance their product with wireless functionality and who are experienced in developing embedded applications but lack sufficient project time to fully investigate the low-level complexity inherent in wireless protocol stack software.
Choosing the right software components of the protocol stack, and subsequent testing and debugging, is challenging and time consuming. Consequently, time-to-market pressures often result in projects involving a wireless element being outsourced. However, with Jannal, any competent software engineer can quickly select and test the wireless connectivity component of their embedded software.
Jannal leads the engineer via an intuitive Eclipse-based graphical user interface (GUI) through the design phase tasks of plan, create and test, in order to add Bluetooth- (including v4.0 and v4.1 which include Bluetooth low energy) or Wi-Fi-wireless connectivity to their product.
The intelligent Design Environment enables an engineer to quickly converge on the optimum design for their application. After selecting the wireless protocol software stack, the designer can select from a range of RTOS and target microprocessors and see an estimate of the hardware cost and resource implications of the choices made. Without the flexibility of the Intelligent Design Environment, experimentation with such a wide range of variables would be impractical.
If an engineer chooses to use Jannal to incorporate existing Intellectual Property (IP) wireless protocol software elements and a standard sample application, they don't need to learn the details of the underlying architecture. Alternatively, if the engineer wishes to undertake a more ambitious approach and is prepared to develop a more detailed understanding of the protocol software and framework libraries, they can access the power of Clarinox's proven framework, ClarinoxSoftFrame to guide them in the building of more complex applications.
"Adding wireless connectivity to a product is a sure-fire way of significantly enhancing its functionality," comments Trish Messiter, Clarinox's CEO. "Unfortunately, implementing the technology is far from trivial. Even for a software engineer there's a huge learning curve to overcome to understand the wireless protocol stack, and to then construct, test and debug an application layer to utilise the many features within the RF technology in an optimal way that matches the specific requirements of the end product.
"But with Clarinox's new generation of software, Jannal Intelligent Design Environment, engineers with limited RF knowledge can plan, create, test, debug and then deploy embedded software to target wireless hardware without the need to learn the entire underlying system architecture," continues Messiter. "The software helps to manage the inherent complexity within the development process and relieves the developer from much of the distraction that takes the focus away from the end application."
Jannal Intelligent Design Environment software will be launched at Embedded World Feb 25-27
For more information see the Jannal Intelligent Design Environment whitepaper
Las Vegas, Jan. 1, 2014
Clarinox Technologies, a leading provider of wireless protocol stack
software, is pleased to announce support for Bluetooth® and Wi-Fi®,
optimized for use with the Texas Instruments (TI) low-power, highly
integrated WiLink™ 8Q platform. This complements Clarinox existing
support of a number of TI solutions based on ARM® cores, as well as DSP
and OMAP™ platforms.
The ClarinoxWiFi™ 802.11b/g/a/n Wi-Fi stack provides complete
support for AP, Station, Wi-Fi Direct and WPS - integrated with TI's
WiLink 8Q single-chip solution and Green Hills Software's safety and
security certified INTEGRITY® Real-Time Operating System. Additionally,
ClarinoxWiFi comes with a powerful, built-in 802.11 protocol analyzer,
based upon Clarinox PC based debugger/analyzer.
The ClarinoxBlue™ Bluetooth host subsystem stack is qualified for
Bluetooth versions 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0, and is currently going through the
process of receiving V 4.1 qualification (including Bluetooth low
energy). ClarinoxBlue covers a large number of industry standard
Bluetooth profiles including those commonly used in automotive, health
and consumer applications. The Bluetooth implementation supports many
real time operating systems, including Green Hills INTEGRITY RTOS, and
supports TI's WiLink 8Q solutions as well as previous WiLink 6 and 7Q
generations. It comes bundled with the Clarinox protocol analyzer.
Trish Messiter, Clarinox CEO says, "This support for TI WiLink 8Q
platform is an important development to enable Clarinox support for
innovative wireless applications such as high-speed pairing, high data
rate transfer such as for MirrorLink capability, and is particularly
suited to a range of automotive use cases."
Ram Machness, director of products for WiLink 8Q automotive
connectivity solutions at TI says, "TI is pleased to add Clarinox
software support to our state-of-the-art connectivity products that
deliver world-class infotainment features to the automotive market. By
adding the Clarinox protocol stacks to our solution, we are able to
deliver additional functionality with our automotive connectivity
portfolio."
Dan Mender, vice president of business development from Green Hills
Software says, "We have had a successful partnership with Clarinox for
more than two years and are very pleased to see the addition of support
for TI's latest Wi-Fi/Bluetooth combo chip - WiLink8. When combined with
Green Hills' proven INTEGRITY RTOS, customers can address the growing
challenges for achieving safe, secure connectivity for the plethora of
devices that make up the Internet of Things (IoT)."
