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June 27th, 2012, by Colin Walls | Permalink

Tags: embedded software, Freescale, low power

Further to yesterday’s post, here is a video in which my colleague Rich Rejmaniak demonstrates the power management features of Nucleus RTOS.

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This blog is a discussion of embedded software matters - news, comment, technical issues and ideas, along with other passing thoughts about anything that happens to be on my mind.

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