BYOES Track at ESC Silicon Valley to Feature Freescale's Tower System

Freescale's Tower System is a modular, reconfigurable development platform that allows designers to get to market faster with packaged evaluation boards, tools and runtime software. It is comprised of three types of modules: the Microcontroller Module (aka, controller module for 8-, 16- and 32-bit MCUs), Peripheral Module (featuring interchangeable peripheral boards—e.g., serial memory, graphical LCD and 802.11b Wi-Fi) and Elevator Module that connects and provides power to all boards. Each module in the Tower System is sold individually or as a complete kit.

Freescale System Engineer Michael Norman conducted a demo of the Tower System during the company's presentation at the show floor Theatre. Norman presented a new graphical LCD module featuring a 3.2-inch TFT display and resistive touch screen interface. He also said new processors for the Tower System were in the pipeline including a ColdFire V2 connectivity MCU with USB, Ethernet and CAN, an 8-bit S08 packaged MCU, and 32-bit Power Architecture MCUs.

Following the presentation Freescale gave away Tower Systems to five lucky ESC attendees in the audience.