The mainboard development of Fujitsu Technology Solutions at the Augsburg plant has won the Technology Leadership Award from Mentor Graphics in the category Computers, Blades & Servers, Memory Systems. This is the second time Fujitsu Technology Solutions received the trophy, which is awarded every year in six categories.

Fujitsu announces that it will be showcasing its FM Family ARM Cortex-M-based industrial solutions and FRAM at the Embedded World trade fair in Nuremberg, February 26 to February 28. Learn more about Fujitsu’s range of ‘right-sized’ solutions at our partner booths, where our experts will be on hand to answer your questions and provide live demonstrations. You will find us at GLYN (hall 1, booth 306), MSC (hall 2, booth 219) and EBV Elektron...

Fujitsu and Panasonic have announced that the two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding to consolidate the design and development functions of the system LSI businesses of Panasonic and Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu. With the backing of capital contributions from third-party investors, Fujitsu and Panasonic will establish a new company under a fabless business model, enabling LSI design and deve...

Fujitsu today announced the development of a digital signal processor for use in mobile device baseband processing. By employing a vector processing architecture as used in supercomputers, the DSP can efficiently run highly repetitive processes common in LTE and other wireless processes. This, in turn, allows for greater energy efficiency.

Fujitsu Laboratories and Holst Centre have announced that they have commenced joint research related to the development of ultra-low-power wireless transceivers for wireless sensor networks. The research aims to reduce power consumption in wireless transceivers, a key device in wireless sensor networks that can be employed in medicine, healthcare, agricultural management, and a host of other fields. As a result, the research will help improve the...

Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe today announced the expansion of its scalable line-up for automotive instrument clusters, covering everything from MCUs for traditional clusters up to 3D graphic systems on chips (SoC), as well as being capable of driving virtual or free programmable clusters. The newest member of Fujitsu's FCR4 family, the MB9DF125, nicknamed 'Atlas-L', is based on the well-established ARM Cortex-R4 core and includes a Secure Hardwar...

Fujitsu Semiconductor America today introduced an ultra-low-power Ferroelectric Random Access Memory in a new, smaller standard SON-8 package designed for miniaturized products. The 16Kbit FRAM MB85RC16 includes an I2C interface and features the smallest standby and operating current in its class of products.

Fujitsu Semiconductor today announced that it has achieved high output power of 2.5kW in server power-supply units equipped with gallium-nitride (GaN) power devices built on a silicon substrate. The company will exhibit the device for the first time at Embedded Technology 2012 Conference and Exhibition (Nov. 14-16 at the Pacifico Yokohama Convention Center in Japan), and will start volume production of the GaN power devices by the second half of ...

Fujitsu have today launched a new FM4 family of 32-bit general purpose RISC microcontrollers based on the ARM Cortex-M4 processor core, featuring DSP and FPU functions. In addition, Fujitsu is introducing a new FM0+ family of devices based on the Cortex-M0+ core.

Fujitsu Semiconductor America today added 93 new versatile devices to its rapidly expanding FM3 family of 32-bit microcontrollers based on the ARM Cortex-M3 core. The Basic Group has a total of 72 products that include the MB9B520M/320M/120M Series. The controllers operate at 72MHz and have been designed for inverter control, making them ideal choices for household appliances, office automation equipment, and industrial equipment.

Fujitsu have unveiled a new addition to its wide voltage range Ferroelectric Random Access Memory product series (V series). The newly launched MB85RC256V offers the highest density level in the V series and is Fujitsu’s first FRAM product that operates in an even wider voltage range of 2.7 V to 5.5 V, which provides even greater flexibility for customer applications.

Fujitsu have revealed development of the Interface Bridge SoC MB86E631, which brings together a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor and a host of different interfaces, all on a single chip. Sample quantities of the new product will begin shipping in late December 2012.

Miradore and Fujitsu announce a collaboration by which Fujitsu will utilize Miradore’s automated remote management technology in their new point-of-sale management offering branded as “Fujitsu Retail Systems Management, powered by Miradore”.

Fujitsu today announced the immediate availability, in 46 countries, of Interstage List Creator V10, the latest edition of its software tool for designing and generating business-use forms. Interstage List Creator V10 is a software tool for designing and generating forms in the 13 different primary languages of Asia, Europe, North and South America, and Russia, namely Japanese, English, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Korean, Vietnamese, Th...

The Internet Protocol Suite from SEVENSTAX is now also available for Fujitsu’s single- and TwinMAC ARM Cortex-M3 from the FM3 family. The FM3 TwinMAC MCUs are high-end members of the FM3 family and can be deployed for a wide range of applications – such as factory or home automation and the intelligent control of illumination and alarm systems, to name just two.

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced development of eye tracking technology that takes advantage of compact, inexpensive cameras and light-emitting diodes (LED) embedded in PCs. Up until now, tracking eye movements required a specialized camera and LED, the prohibitive cost and size of which made it difficult to use in PCs and other general-purpose products. Moreover, less expensive equipment was of insufficient quality, and blurred images m...

Open source service providers emlix have integrated an Embedded Linux system into a Fujitsu D3003-S2 mainboard with AMD Embedded G-Series CPU. All components required for HD video and 3D graphics, including the binary drivers, were adapted by emlix in accordance with the license by using the fglrx drivers, making full use of the relevant hardware resources. This allows smooth playback of HD videos and the display of highly complex 3D graphics.

Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. and Fujitsu Limited today announced the development of the world's first technology for future long-haul and metropolitan optical networks that can dynamically alter the architecture of optical network resources and enhance utilization efficiency without disrupting service.

Fujitsu is pleased to announce that senior members of its research and development team will present their work at the European Conference on Optical Communications, offering insight into the technical innovations enabling 400G and 1Tb optical communications.

Fujitsu today announced the launch of the fifth wave of products in its FM3 Family of 32-bit RISC microcontrollers based on the ARM Cortex-M3 processor core. In total, Fujitsu Semiconductor is releasing 93 new products, which incrementally will be made available in sample quantities starting September 28, 2012.