Micrium Launches First End-to-End Solution for Internet of Things Device Design

New Micrium Spectrum™ offering supports development for the IoT from device to the cloud

Tamworth, Staffordshire and Weston, FL– 30thSeptember 2014Micrium, Inc., the premier RTOS provider for embedded systems, today introduced Micrium Spectrum™ a pre-integrated end-to-end portfolio of embedded software, protocol stacks, cloud services to facilitate development of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. A first in the industry, Micrium Spectrum is also silicon vendor agnostic, which allows designers to develop proprietary and differentiated solutions. Micrium Spectrum is available in the UK from safety-critical and high-integrity tools specialist, Phaedrus Systems.

“The IoT is driving a resurgence in the embedded industry,” said Jean Labrosse, CEO and president of Micrium. “IoT-ready devices require a solid software infrastructure, including a real-time kernel plus additional services like TCP/IP, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth stacks, as well as cloud services and the ability to put it all together. This is what we are bringing to market in Micrium Spectrum; a truly end-to-end approach designed to allow engineers to maximize the performance of their systems.”

Micrium Spectrum is a comprehensive offering of products and services to facilitate and accelerate the design of IoT-ready devices:

  • Real time operating system (RTOS): µC/OS-II® or µC/OS-III®
  • Local networking: Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth (classic and low energy)
  • IoT protocols: http client and server with REST API, MQTT
  • Java support: Java Virtual Machine for deeply embedded systems
  • Cloud computing: Web services such as cloud-server interfaces, data brokering and cloud storage

“For the IoT to truly take off, devices need to be interconnected so information can be exchanged between systems – machine to machine – or connected to the cloud,” said Christian Légaré, CTO and executive vice president of Micrium. “Fundamentally, IoT devices are embedded systems with connectivity, so it is important to approach the IoT from the embedded systems level. Micrium Spectrum makes sense of the IoT, making it easy to design reliable, high-performance devices and maximize their potential.”

"This is a real break-through, putting integrated end-to-end IoT into the hands of developers in a a powerful yet easy to use solution," said Chris Hills, CO of Phaedrus Systems. "We are looking forward to working with creative teams to bring the IoT to life."

About Micrium

Micrium provides high-quality embedded software components by way of clean source code, unsurpassed documentation, and customer support. Starting with Micrium’s flagship products, uC/OS-II and uC/OS-III, through its complete line of RTOS modules, Micrium shortens time to market throughout all product development cycles and builds products that address today’s increased design complexity as well as safety-critical requirements. For additional information, visit:

About Phaedrus Systems

Phaedrus Systems is the UK’s leading specialist in the support of engineers at all stages of embedded safety-critical and high-integrity projects. Tools available include requirements capture for IEC 61508, EN 50128 and nuclear applications; requirements tracking and competency tools; estimation software; SIL3 RTOS; hi-rel embedded database; compiler validation reports and reliability/failure software. Consultants have experience working on automotive, rail and aerospace applications, meeting standards such as IEC 61508 SIL4, and D0178B. Backing these is a wide range of other relevant embedded tools.

Phaedrus Systems is based in Tamworth, Staffordshire. More information is available on the website