Unleash The Power of JavaScript For IoT

Marvell's KinomaJS goes open source

by Junko Yoshida - EETimes, Mar. 03, 2015 – 

BARCELONA - Marvell announced that it has open-sourced the company's software crown jewel, KinomaJS.

The KinomaJS is a JavaScript-based framework designed to build the core applications of embedded devices.

The goal for making KinomaJS open source is to unleash the power of JavaScript, a language many web designers and application developers know well, and apply it to a traditionally very siloed embedded world. Internet of Things (IoT) applications are a particular target, explained Weili Dai, President and Co-Founder of Marvell, in an interview with EE Times at the Mobile World Congress here.

For IoT to become as widespread as everyone hopes, system designers will need a "make-it-to-fit, light-weight, OS-independent platform" and "cool [IoT] apps" that can help break through separate ecosystem walls of many embedded systems, added Dai.

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