Micros
Audio market expected to be worth $20bn in 2022
According to latest research, the market for MEMS microphones and ECMs, micro-speakers and audio ICs will be worth $20bn in 2022. Compared to 2006, the audio business is about to experience profound changes. When Yole Développement (Yole), part of Yole Group of Companies released its first microphone report in 2006, the MEMS microphone industry was at the early stage, with emerging players and applications. The 'More than Moore' market res...
Power management IC for car audio systems
A new system regulator IC has been launched by Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) that is designed to handle the increasing sophistication of car audio systems. The TCB010FNG is a fully-featured solution, incorporating the required power supply and all essential detection functions. TCB010FNG incorporates a multi-rail microcontroller power supply that retains power during minor interruptions in the battery supply. The device also includes mult...
MEMS capacitive accelerometers perform up to 125°C
Designers and manufacturers of industrial grade MEMS capacitive accelerometer chips and modules, Silicon Designs, has announced the global market introduction of six new series of low-cost, high-performance MEMS capacitive accelerometers, in both traditional and smaller footprints.
Lifetime prediction for ICs in all design environments
Fraunhofer IIS/EAS is offering advanced modelling services for device degradation effects in North America. Using these proprietary techniques, designers are now able to verify the long-term behaviour of ICs and systems especially in safety critical applications. Compared to today’s solutions, the advanced models can be used in all common industrial design environments. In addition to standard degradation effects, Fraunhofer also takes into...
Low-power MCUs simplify LCD application design
A new family of low-power microcontrollers (MCUs) has been announced by Microchip featuring Core Independent Peripherals (CIPs) and intelligent analogue for driving Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD). The nine member PIC16F19197 family includes a battery-friendly LCD drive charge pump; 12-bit ADC with computation (ADC2); a low-power comparator; and active clock-tuning of its high-frequency oscillator. They are the first 8-bit MCUs to be opti...
Wireless microcontroller integrates MCU and Bluetooth smart radio
The CC2640R2F SimpleLink ultra-low-power wireless microcontroller from Texas Instruments (TI) is in stock at Mouser Electronics. Part of TI’s CC26xx SimpleLink family of 2.4GHz devices, the CC2640R2F microcontroller features a small, single-chip system that integrates a flash-based microcontroller and Bluetooth Smart radio to target Bluetooth 4.2 and Bluetooth 5 low-energy applications.
Hardware demonstration platform achieves public domain
As the EU’s Artemis EMC2 project draws to a close on 30th May 2017, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology has declared its participation a resounding success. Sundance’s role in the project has been to architect and develop the hardware platform on which the project’s applications could be demonstrated. This hardware demonstration platform, which also forms the basis of Sundance’s commercially available EMC2-compliant PC...
MCUs are supported by extended development ecosystem
STMicroelectronics has begun volume production of ultra-low-power STM32L45x MCUs, supported by a development ecosystem based on the easy-to-use and affordable STM32Cube platform. The STM32L451, STM32L452, and STM32L462 lines integrate a DFSDM, enabling advanced audio capabilities such as noise cancellation or sound localisation on an inexpensive microcontroller. Up to 512 Kbyte on-chip Flash and 160 Kbyte SRAM provide generous code and data ...
Partnership aims for scalable multi-protocol industrial ethernet platform
Creating cost-efficient and compact industrial slave devices that can connect to any Real-Time Ethernet network is now simpler, through the combination of the STM32 ecosystem with the multi-protocol flexibility of Hilscher’s netX control ICs. The results of this collaboration are the I-NUCLEO-NETX expansion board, for use with any STM32 Nucleo-64/-144 dev board, and the I-CUBE-NETX, an STM32Cube software expansion for combining netX 52...
MOSFET selection for cordless power tools
Ease-of-use is driving the growth of cordless power tools in professional and DIY (do it yourself) applications. Michael Piela and Keisuke Kaganoi, Toshiba explain how MOSFETs deliver higher power and extend operation in smaller form factors Toshiba at PCIM Europe 2017: Stand 9-301