MicroEJ (pronounced "micro-EDGE")[2] is a French-American independent software vendor with headquarters in Nantes, France[3] and offices in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.[4] It was founded by Fred Rivard in 2004.[5][6][7] It is known for developing MICROEJ VEE, a Virtual Execution Environment for embedded software development and other software development tools such as the software development kit MICROEJ SDK.[6][8]
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Virtualization, computer programming |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Founder | Fred Rivard |
| Headquarters | |
Area served | Worldwide |
Number of employees | 60 (in 2021)[1] |
| Website | microej |
History
Fred Rivard founded MicroEJ under the name Industrial Smart Software Technologies (IS2T).[5] MicroEJ established its offices in Boston in 2016.[9]
At the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), MicroEJ announced plans to release an app store platform for IoT devices.[10]
MicroEJ partnered with Groupe SEB to integrate MICROEJ VEE into its food processor products in 2021.[11] In the same year, MicroEJ also partnered with NXP Semiconductors to offer a MICROEJ VEE platform on NXP's i.MX RT500 MCU for wearables.[12][13]
At CES 2022, MicroEJ launched the first containerized software platform for smart home and industrial devices connected using the Matter protocol.[14] In 2022, MicroEJ also partnered with Thales to offer MICROEJ VEE on the Thales Cinterion IoT Module and Plug and Play IoT Devices.[15] MicroEJ also partnered with Telit to develop Telit IoT cellular modules' software development ecosystem.[16]
In 2023, MicroEJ announced collaboration with Polar Electro to integrate MICROEJ VEE several wearable products.[17] The company also revealed collaboration with Schneider Electric to integrate MICROEJ VEE technology in Industrial IoT products.[18]
Products
MICROEJ VEE (Virtual Execution Environment) comes in the form of a runtime environment and its associated software libraries for running containers (also called virtual machines) reproducing the behavior of embedded systems.[2][6][19] MicroEJ uses Instruction Set hardware virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers[2][20] and enable the creation of app stores.[4][10]
MicroEJ also provides a simulator allowing the development of software applications on virtual devices (actual embedded devices simulated on workstations).[20][21]
MicroEJ provides an IDE based on Eclipse for creating embedded software and applications on desktop.[20] MICROEJ SDK supports programming languages such as C, Java, Javascript, and Kotlin.[22][6] Applications can also be developed using Android Studio and Gradle.[8]