Thanks to this combined solution, smart device manufacturers can achieve significant reductions in system design costs (both hardware and software), enhanced security, and a much faster time to market, resulting in greater market share gains.
Supported by over 10 million skilled engineers worldwide, powered by Microchip, SAM MCU-based products enable advanced innovation in harsh and demanding environments, where distributed intelligence is a key differentiator, along with energy efficiency, engaging graphical user interfaces, and smart sensors. This collaboration allows manufacturers to benefit from a reliable, ready-to-use, end-to-end solution.
By providing extensive open-source libraries for UI/UX, wired and wireless communication, security, and automation, MicroEJ technology for Microchip MCUs significantly reduces the complexity of embedded systems, resulting in substantial development cost reductions while ensuring core edge functionalities and accelerating the pace of innovation in markets such as consumer, industrial, appliance, healthcare, and energy.
Starting with the robust SAM E7x MCU product line, MicroEJ VEE enables the leveraging and reuse of binary software components across Microchip's broad portfolio of heterogeneous cores (microApti, ARM Cortex-M0+, ARM Cortex-M23, M4K, ARM Cortex-M4, ARM Cortex-M7). It facilitates secure, sandboxed software designs based on applications, leveraging the MicroEJ binary software application store: MicroEJ Forge. MICROEJ Forge manages the lifecycles of software assets (prepare, register, publish, deliver, etc.) while ensuring the highest level of reliability for the community it is aimed at, such as the various R&D teams of large corporations: capitalization across multiple business units becomes a reality.
MICROEJ Forge provides a unique security feature: a binary software verifier. Before any software distribution, it validates that the software is threat-free and binary-compatible with the rest of the application it will be linked to.
"The collaboration between MicroEJ and Microchip has opened up more possibilities than ever before for AI/IoT/ML device manufacturers," says Dr. Fred Rivard, CEO of MicroEJ. "Our first successful field-proven implementations with Microchip SAM E7 MCUs in rugged industrial communication gateways give us confidence in the tremendous potential of leveraging MicroEJ technology for successful, intelligent IoT and embedded devices."
“With MicroEJ, we are helping the entire industry grow and accelerate application integration in ways that truly transform our daily lives,” said Rod Drake, Vice President of Microchip’s MCU32 business unit. “MicroEJ VEE enables the standard virtualization technology used by Android and has scaled it down by several orders of magnitude to work on our SAM E7 MCU product lines. This incredible achievement opens a world of new opportunities that will positively transform the embedded market.”.
