Watch how this futuristic car moves through the Freescale logo to provide an inside look into critical automotive active and passive safety systems such as airbag systems, electronic stability control and tire pressure monitoring systems.

Freescale Semiconductor’s i.MX516 multimedia applications processor and S12XEP100 microcontroller are key embedded processing engines in the next-generation Ford SYNC in-car communications and entertainment system announced at CES in Las Vegas today. The Freescale S12X MCU enables the system’s CAN gateway and the Freescale i.MX processor provides powerful graphics and processing capabilities.

As Internet connectivity proliferates beyond traditional computing platforms, Acer is designing an exciting new product that leverages processing, power management and analog technologies from Freescale Semiconductor.

Manufacturers of smart mobile devices built with i.MX processors from Freescale Semiconductor can soon enable Adobe Flash Player 10.1 software for engaging experiences including video playback, animation, gaming and the enjoyment of other rich web content. Through close work with Adobe and Movial, Freescale is bringing Adobe Flash Player 10.1 to its i.MX platforms, enabling the creation of consumer products running either the Linux or Android ope...

Freescale Semiconductor has unveiled the future of the smartbook category with a tablet reference design featuring a 7-inch touch screen with up to four times the viewing area of a typical smartphone and based on a form factor that is approximately one-third the size and volume of today’s typical netbook.

Consumer demand for faster, sleeker, longer-playing mobile devices has helped Freescale Semiconductor establish early leadership in the smart mobile devices category – a fast growing market segment that includes smartbooks, eBook readers, smartphones and other mobile consumer products.

Freescale Semiconductor has introduced the first processors based on its QorIQ communications platform that also incorporate QUICC Engine multiprotocol technology. The QorIQ P1012/P1021 product family offers a high-performance, low-power migration path to all-IP environments for customers using legacy multiprotocol interfaces.

Freescale Semiconductor continues to enable advanced development through rapid evaluation and prototyping with its Tower System development platform. Today, the company announced two interchangeable peripheral modules and 8- and 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) modules for the Tower System.

Freescale Semiconductor is expanding its 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) portfolio with devices ideal for personal diagnostic and portable health care products that require low-power operation and advanced display capabilities. An extension of its liquid crystal display (LCD) S08LL microcontroller (MCU) families, the advanced S08LL64 allows engineers to quickly develop dependable, flexible and low-cost medical, industrial and consumer devices.

Freescale Semiconductor is expanding its 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) portfolio with devices ideal for personal diagnostic and portable health care products that require low-power operation and advanced display capabilities. An extension of its liquid crystal display (LCD) S08LL microcontroller (MCU) families, the advanced S08LL64 allows engineers to quickly develop dependable, flexible and low-cost medical, industrial and consumer devices.

Freescale Semiconductor is expanding its embedded motor control portfolio with the introduction of the S08MP16. This entry-level 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) family provides a safe, accurate and cost-optimized solution for brushless DC (BLDC) motor control applications ranging from industrial drives to automotive fuel pumps.

Freescale Semiconductor is introducing a mini USB interface IC that helps mobile device designers and manufacturers create smaller, sleeker consumer products by enabling a single mini USB connector for external accessories including chargers, headsets, microphones and audio/data connections.

The Freescale i.MX51 product family that helped establish the fast-growing smartbook category has been expanded to include new processors designed to help customers differentiate and win in automotive, industrial and consumer markets. The new devices are the i.MX514 and i.MX516 processors for automotive applications and the i.MX512 and i.MX513 processors for industrial and consumer applications. In addition to these new offerings, the previously ...

Freescale Semiconductor has introduced a hardware/software platform that helps systems designers and OEMs deploy the popular Android operating system on Freescale products based on Power Architecture technology.

The industry’s top provider of processors for eBooks has joined forces with the leading supplier of eBook electronic paper displays to develop highly integrated embedded solutions that lower costs and foster innovation for eBook manufacturers and their customers. Freescale Semiconductor and E Ink Corporation have agreed to jointly develop system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions that integrate Freescale’s i.MX processor technology with E Ink’s Vizp...

Freescale Semiconductor is expanding its broad portfolio of touch sensing solutions with the addition of the MPR121 ultra-low-power capacitive sensor and a touch sensing software (TSS) suite compatible with more than 300 of its 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs). With these new offerings, Freescale enables customers to choose the best fit for their interface designs across a broad spectrum of consumer and industrial applications.

Code and pin compatibility with the QorIQ P4080 processor further extends Freescale’s advanced multicore architecture. The new processor combines control, datapath and application layer processing, which lowers part counts, reduces system cost and shrinks product footprints. The P4040 is well-suited for wireless infrastructure, enterprise routing and switching and industrial applications.

Freescale Semiconductor has introduced a 50V laterally diffused MOS (LDMOS) RF power transistor designed to streamline UHF transmitter equipment designs. The MRF6V3090N device demonstrates industry-leading RF figures of merit, and when combined with Freescale’s MRF6VP3450H transistor, is designed to enable system-level power reductions that can potentially save broadcasters thousands of dollars in operating costs.

Freescale Semiconductor’s MSC8156 multicore digital signal processor (DSP) has won the prestigious 2009 InfoVision Award in the category of “Enabling Silicon and Component-Level Technologies.” Presented earlier this week at the Broadband World Forum Europe 2009 event by the International Engineering Consortium (IEC), the award recognizes advances in technologies, applications, products and services judged to be the most beneficial to the i...

Freescale Semiconductor is providing the processing intelligence behind a next-generation lane departure warning (LDW) system introduced by Takata Corporation, a leading global supplier of automotive safety systems. Designed for the commercial trucking industry and use in heavy trucks, the SafeTraK 3 LDW system uses advanced monocular vision technology to help reduce highway accidents related to driver error, fatigue and inattention.