MicroEJ (pronounced "micro-EDGE") is a French-American

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with headquarters in

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, France and offices in

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, USA. It was founded by Fred Rivard in 2004. It is known for developing MICROEJ VEE, a Virtual Execution Environment for

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development and other software development tools such as the

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MICROEJ SDK.

History

Fred Rivard founded MicroEJ under the name Industrial Smart Software Technologies (IS2T). MicroEJ established its offices in

in 2016. At the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), MicroEJ announced plans to release an app store platform for IoT devices. MicroEJ partnered with

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to integrate MICROEJ VEE into its

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products in 2021. In the same year, MicroEJ also partnered with

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to offer a MICROEJ VEE platform on NXP's i.MX RT500 MCU for

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. At CES 2022, MicroEJ launched the first containerized software platform for

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and industrial devices connected using the Matter protocol. In 2022, MicroEJ also partnered with

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to offer MICROEJ VEE on the Thales Cinterion IoT Module and

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IoT Devices. MicroEJ also partnered with

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to develop Telit IoT cellular modules' software development ecosystem. In 2023, MicroEJ announced collaboration with

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to integrate MICROEJ VEE several wearable products. The company also revealed collaboration with

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to integrate MICROEJ VEE technology in Industrial IoT products^.

Products

MICROEJ VEE (Virtual Execution Environment) comes in the form of a

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and its associated

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for running containers (also called

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) reproducing the behavior of

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. MicroEJ uses Instruction Set hardware

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to deliver

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in packages called

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and enable the creation of app stores. MicroEJ also provides a

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allowing the development of

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on virtual devices (actual embedded devices simulated on

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). MicroEJ provides an IDE based on

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for creating embedded software and applications on desktop. MICROEJ SDK supports programming languages such as C,

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, and Kotlin. Applications can also be developed using

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and

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References

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