Micros
NFC simplifies Smart home wireless energy harvesting
At the 2014 International CES, NXP has demonstrated a wireless smart lighting network offering easy installation in the home. With an energy harvesting switch (featuring no battery and no wires) from EnOcean, the demonstration network uses the NXP JN5161 wireless microcontroller and implements the ZigBee Green Power feature.
Rochester re-introduces the 80960 by Intel 32-bit microprocessor
The 80960MC 32-bit microprocessor was originally manufactured by Intel as an enhanced version of the i960 series and enjoyed great commercial success in a host of embedded applications. With 512-byte instruction cache, a built-in interrupt controller, an integrated floating-point unit and a memory management unit, the 80960MC is a versatile and high-demand chip which Rochester is excited to support with full authorization from Intel.
ARM Cortex-M3 licensed for BLDC motor control ICs
Micronas has licensed the ARM Cortex-M3 32-bit RISC processor for its next-generation single chip brushless DC motor control solutions. High-voltage controllers with flexible peripherals and direct motor driving capabilities, the company's embedded controllers are suited for use in automotive and industrial applications.
Flexible MCUs enable late system design changes
Allowing developers to address late design changes to their system, the LPC11E37H and LPC11U37H microcontrollers from NXP include an I/O Handler peripheral. The microcontrollers provide designers with the flexibility to add incremental peripheral functionality at any point during the design cycle.
Smart sports watch uses Giant Gecko MCU
Silicon Labs announced that Magellan has selected the EFM32 Giant Gecko microcontroller as the energy-friendly processing platform for the company's Echo smart sports watch, the the first “open” smart sports watch platform that enables application developers to augment their apps to be viewed on and controlled from the wrist.
Sensor hub enhances the consumer experience
Designed to offload sensor management from the main processor, Hillcrest Labs introduce the SH-1 sensor hub providing ‘always on’ features including context awareness and gesture recognition which augment the consumer experience and minimise system power consumption. Hillcrest’s software will be paired with a cost-effective, low power SAM D20 ARM Cortex M0+ based microcontroller from Atmel, accelerating time to market for device...
Updated development tools for 8-bit microcontrollers
Updating the popular toolchain to version 6.30, IAR has announced the new version of its complete C/C++ development toolchain, IAR Embedded Workbench for AVR. This version includes improved compiler optimizations as well as new device support and updated user guides.
STMicroelectronics joins ARM mbed project
STMicroelectronics has joined the ARM mbed Project, which will give developers using ST’s STM32 microcontroller range (which are based on the ARM Cortex-M processor series) free access to the mbed software, development tools and online collaboration platform. This enables them to realise their own visions for the new wave of intelligent electronics products.
Compiler supports Power Architecture based MCUs
Altium has announced a major release of its TASKING C compiler solution for automotive application development. Supporting the Power Architecture based microcontrollers from the Freescale Qorivva/5xxx series and STMicroelectronics SPC5 series, the updated compiler includes various improvements on code optimisations for speed and size.
The industry's highest performance dual-core MCUs
Setting a new performance standard for MCU performance in high-end industrial applications, Texas Instruments have today introduced the new C2000 Delfino 32-bit F2837xD microcontroller. Featuring floating-point performance of 800 MIPS, these new MCUs are ideal for applications requiring real-time signal analysis, such as high-end servo drives, solar central inverters, industrial uninterruptable power supplies and more.