Freescale Semiconductor – the communications processing leader and provider of industry-leading DSP technology – is transforming the future of wireless infrastructure equipment with the introduction of a highly integrated base station-on-chip portfolio built on advanced heterogeneous multicore technology. Freescale’s new QorIQ Qonverge series is the first scalable family of products sharing the same architecture to address multi-standard re...

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) announced today a historic engine control technology partnership with Freescale Semiconductor and McLaren Electronic Systems to develop and integrate fuel injection systems into the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, targeted for the 2012 season.

The Freescale Tower System development platform, which has rapidly become an industry standard and a preferred tool to help developers quickly evaluate and prototype their applications, continues to expand with new, feature-rich development boards (modules) for medical, industrial and general embedded applications. Today, Freescale announced four new controller modules, two interchangeable peripheral modules and five complete Tower System kits fo...

Freescale announced today that one of its Power Architecture based Qorivva microcontrollers (MCUs) reached unprecedented levels of performance in an industry-standard automotive benchmark test. The Qorivva 32-bit MPC5674F achieved a benchmark score of 305 Automarks™ in the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium’s (EEMBC®) AutoBench™ suite of tests, demonstrating more than three times the performance of the previous hig...

In this video you will learn how to get up and running quickly with the i.MX28 evaluation kit (EVK) with the help of Jamie Happ, Senior Applications Engineer from Freescale. This tutorial will cover everything you need to unpack your kit, learn the system components, and get the Windows® Embedded CE operating system running on your EVK board. Alternatively, there is a separate tutorial which covers getting started on the i.MX28 EVK with Linux®.

Run through the highlights of this embedded software tool for Kinetis MCUs as well as other Freescale MCU product families. Integrates seamlessly with the Freescale MQX operating system.

This video describes the features of the MCF51AG128 32-bit MCU for smart appliances and other industrial applications.

As electronic content in cars continues to increase, energy management, safety and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) robustness have become critical requirements for in-vehicle networks. Freescale Semiconductor today announced its next generation of system basis chips (SBCs) to address these issues. The SBC devices integrate an energy management module to power microcontrollers (MCUs), transceiver interfaces to connect with in-vehicle networks ...

Today at the PSI5 Forum in Nuremberg, Germany, Freescale Semiconductor introduced two advanced airbag system solutions for the emerging Peripheral Sensor Interface 5 (PSI5) protocol, including an inertial satellite sensor family and a mixed signal analog IC. The company is also complementing these products with the addition of an electronic control unit (ECU) inertial sensor family. Freescale’s airbag safety products are targeted at airbag ...

As the electronic and software content in automobiles continues to increase, the need for fast, reliable communication between vehicle subsystems intensifies. To help address this networking design challenge, Freescale Semiconductor recently developed a high-performance microcontroller (MCU) based on its Power Architecture® technology in collaboration with leading automaker, the BMW Group. Freescale’s 32-bit MCU for BMW’s 2010 lux...

The development of safer vehicles is a key technology driver for the automotive industry, with airbag safety systems leading the charge. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that frontal air bags alone saved more than 25,780 lives between 1987 and 2008. As automotive suppliers continue to incorporate critical safety features in their designs, they must continue improving performance, while at the same time red...

Freescale Semiconductor is introducing its next-generation technology to serve the fast-growing automotive intelligent distributed nodes market. Freescale’s new integrated LL18UHV technology, along with existing S12 microcontroller (MCU) system-in-package (SiP) product families, meet the technical and commercial demands of applications in which space requirements and cost need to be minimised, such as window-lifts, sunroofs and motor contro...

As drivers opt for more comfort and convenience features in their cars, automotive body electronics will continue to require more complex semiconductors while maintaining competitive price points. Freescale Semiconductor is expanding its popular line of 16-bit S12 microcontrollers (MCUs) optimised for a broad range of cost-sensitive automotive body electronics applications. The advanced S12G devices are designed to accommodate application require...

Freescale Semiconductor, the number one supplier of ZigBee RF4CE and IEEE® 802.15.4 chipsets, and RealD, the market leader in 3D technology, are working together to enable the most impressive at-home 3D viewing experience to date. Freescale and RealD are combining their expertise to create a 3D platform that provides realistic 3D TV viewing while solving technical and cost problems associated with infrared based systems.

Freescale Semiconductor is expanding its Xtrinsic line of intelligent sensing solutions with the introduction of the MAG3110, the company’s first magnetometer. The Xtrinsic MAG3110 is a small-profile, low-power, three-axis digital magnetometer that delivers enhanced digital electronic compass (eCompass) functionality for location-based services (LBS) such as navigation, dead-reckoning and location-tracking in smart mobile devices and other elec...

Take the suck out of vampire energy loss with the Watt Saver Solution, Freescale's MCU charging technology.

Freescale Semiconductor introduces the i.MX 6 series of quad-, dual- and single-core applications processors designed to deliver outstanding performance and scalability to manufacturers targeting the hottest selling smart mobile, automotive infotainment and embedded device categories.

Freescale Semiconductor is finding innovative ways to stop “vampire” energy loss, the loss of power that occurs when an AC adapter is plugged into an electrical outlet but isn’t charging a device. Freescale’s new Watt Saver technology automatically eliminates no-load power consumption for AC adaptors, potentially providing substantial energy savings over existing manual versions. In addition, Freescale will donate one percent of all Watt ...

Freescale Semiconductor continues as the strong market share leader in applications processors for the fast-growing eReader market. Building on the proven performance, integration and energy-efficiency of the i.MX processor family, Freescale announces its latest eReader design win and one of the industry’s first monolithic colour eReader solutions in collaboration with E Ink.

Kinetis microcontrollers feature FlexMemory (embedded EEPROM). View the video explanation and learn how you can benefit from the unique FlexMemory capability the Kinetis MCU family offers.