Micros
World’s first MCU with a configurable low-leakage TIA
Extending battery life in sensing and measurement applications, Texas Instruments has introduced what is claimed to be the industry’s only MCU with an integrated low-leakage TIA (TransImpedance Amplifier) consuming just 50pA. The MSP430FR2311 MCU offers 20 times lower leakage than alternative voltage and current sensing solutions and provides the configurability of analogue and memory technology without sacrificing battery life or boar...
Increased customisation options enhance MCU range
A new and updated range of C-Control microcontrollers designed in-house by the Conrad Technology Centrum (CTC) is now in stock at Conrad Business Supplies. The new solutions offer improved user interfaces and greater customisation options. The flagship product for the C-Control PRO family, is the C-Control AVR32-Bit MCU.
Build, debug & fine-tune STM8 applications for free
STMicroelectronics has extended incentives for designers to choose its popular STM8 MCUs for economical computing tasks in the smart devices that support modern work and life. The latest move by ST, working with Cosmic, means all the software tools that designers need to build, debug, and fine-tune STM8 applications are now available free of charge.
Magnetic chips could increase energy efficiency
Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown for the first time that magnetic chips can operate with the lowest fundamental level of energy dissipation possible under the laws of thermodynamics. The findings, to be published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances, mean that dramatic reductions in power consumption are possible—as much as one-millionth the amount of energy per operation used by transistors...
EtherCAT node integrated onto MCU platform
The world’s first EtherCAT node integrated on a standard ARM Cortex-M microcontroller, the new Infineon XMC4800 is in stock at distributor RS Components. It eases implementation of EtherCAT connectivity and saves PCB space usually occupied by a separate EtherCAT ASIC and its associated memory IC and oscillator crystal.
Low-power MCUs target general purpose usage
The SMART SAM D09 ARM-Based microcontrollers from Atmel is a series of low-power microcontrollers based on a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0+ processor operating at a maximum frequency of 48MHz. The microcontrollers are available at distributor Mouser Electronics. They are designed for simple and intuitive migration between SAM D devices with identical peripheral modules, compatible code, and a linear address map.
Speeding verification of MIPS-based designs
A collaboration to aid customers speed time to market has been launched by Imagination Technologies and Mentor Graphics Corp. The Mentor Veloce emulation platform, specifically the Codelink offering, now supports debug of designs built with Imagination’s full range of entry level to highest performance MIPS CPUs including the latest deeply embedded M-class M6250 processor based on the MIPS R6 architecture. Mentor is using MIPS CPUs in its t...
AMD scales performance, price & power across embedded line
AMD has announced its 3rd gen AMD Embedded G-series SoCs and the Embedded G-series LX SoC, providing customers a broadened portfolio of performance options. The latest offerings expand developers’ ability to scale x86 platforms, starting with the entry-level AMD Embedded G-series LX SoC, which is pin compatible to the previous generation G-series SoC devices.
'World’s lowest' power 64-Bit ARM-based processor
NXP Semiconductors has introduced the QorIQ LS1012A processor, delivering enterprise-class performance and security capabilities to consumer and networking applications, all in a package size normally associated with MCUs. Combining a 64-bit ARM v8-based processor with network packet acceleration and QorIQ trust architecture security capabilities, the device features line-rate networking performance at 1W typical power in a 9.6x9.6mm package.
MPUs offer high computational performance of 1000DMIPS
Renesas Electronics Europe and TES Electronic Solutions (TES) have announced the availability of the TES Guiliani-LITE prepaid HMI production package for Renesas’ RZ/A Series of embedded MPUs. In addition to high computational performance of 1000DMIPS, the RZ/A Series from Renesas offer the optimal feature set for medium-range HMIs, such as those found in the white goods arena, in industrial and medical terminals as well as countless securi...