Micros

MediaTek unveiles its Genio platform for AIoT devices and introduced the first chip in the Genio family, the Genio 1200 designed for premium AIoT products.

Currently, 32-bit chips have the largest market share of microcontrollers used in embedded systems, yet 8 and 16-bit chips are also frequently used. Microcontrollers of this type are built using well-known cores, which have been extensively tested and refined thanks to their long presence on the market.

Mouser Electronics is now stocking the AD4116 analogue-to-digital converters (ADCs) from Analog Devices.

With the NJM2884/A, Nisshinbo Micro Devices (NJR) offers a low dropout (LDO) voltage regulator based on bipolar technology.

Data I/O, NXP Semiconductors and Avnet Silica have collaborated to support NXP’s LPC55S6x series Arm Cortex M33 based microcontroller using Data I/O’s SentriX security deployment platform.

Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH has started mass production of 21 new microcontrollers in the M3H group as new products in the TXZ+ Family Advanced Class, manufactured in a 40nm process.

Charlotte Morgan interviews Robert Oshana, VP Software Engineer, R&D, Microcontroller Group at NXP about his work on an ebook on edge computing.

The photonic systems of the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS can modulate light using small deflectable mirrors to create images and structures in a unique way. Accordingly, the research institute is developing spatial light modulators with up to several million mirrors on a semiconductor chip.

Nowi, a Dutch semiconductor company specialised in energy harvesting and power management, launches today the newest addition to its portfolio with Diatom. Known for having developed one of the smallest and most cost-effective energy harvesting PMICs on the market, Nowi now unveils a new chipset which offers a range of brand-new features.

Microcontroller sales boomeranged back with strong growth in the economic recovery of 2021, when the MCU market climbed 23% to a record-high $19.6bn after falling two percent in the 2020 outbreak year of the Covid-19 virus crisis, according to IC Insights’ 1Q Update to its 2022 McClean Report.