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Energy Micro Cortex-M4 MCU Benefits From TSMC eLL Process
Energy Micro has revealed that it has been working closely with TSMC to verify the benefits of using the TSMC Extreme Low Leakage process to fabricate its next generation of energy efficient Cortex-M microcontrollers. By aligning closely with TSMC, Energy Micro has benefitted from early access to the process technology to further enhance its MCU portfolio.
HOLTEK BS84xxxA-3 New Touch Key Flash MCU
The BS84xxxA-3 series of devices are Holtek’s newly released 12-bit A/D type Touch Key Flash MCUs. This series includes two devices, the BS84B08A-3 and the BS84C12A-3, which contain 8 and 12 touch keys respectively.
HOLTEK BS83xxxA New Touch Key Flash MCUs
The BS83xxxA series of devices are Holtek’s newly released Touch Key Flash MCUs. In addition to including all the advantages of the predecessor touch key Flash MCUs, they have the additional advantages of even lower power consumption, enhanced touch key sampling speeds and better noise immunity.
Microchip Expands General-Purpose 8-bit PIC Microcontroller Portfolio With Increased Intelligent Analog
Microchip Technology today announced an expansion to the PIC16F75X family of 8-bit microcontrollers featuring intelligent analog and core-independent peripherals, making them ideal for general-purpose applications, as well as power supplies, battery charging, LED lighting, power management and power control/smart energy applications.
Solving Real-Time Problems With Multicore Microcontrollers
This article from ES Design magazine explores solutions for the real-time problems that can occur with multicore microcontrollers. By Ali Dixon, Director, Product Marketing and co-Founder, XMOS.
We've Got It Covered
The breadth of applications now covered by 32bit devices means IDMs are extending their reach in both directions, to make sure all use-cases are covered, as Philip Ling, Editor of ES Design magazine discovers.
Energy Micro Announces Energy Efficient EFM32 Wonder Gecko MCU
Energy Micro is shipping its latest and most advanced microcontroller yet, the EFM32 Wonder Gecko, with devices and development kits available immediately. The Wonder Gecko MCU includes the ARM Cortex-M4 processor that provides a full DSP instruction set and a dedicated floating point unit. The EFM32 Wonder Gecko also utilises the extreme low leakage process for ultimate low-power operation in active and sleep modes.
Microchip Unveil 8-bit PIC MCUs With Intelligent Analogue Integration
Microchip announces an expansion of its 8-bit PIC16F178X enhanced Mid-Range core microcontroller family with increased Flash memory densities; intelligent analogue and digital peripherals, such as on-chip 12-bit Analogue-to-Digital Converters, 16-bit PWMs, 8-bit and 5-bit Digital-to-Analogue Converters, operational amplifiers, and high-speed comparators with 50 ns response time; in addition to EUSART (including LIN), I2C and SPI interface periph...
Fujitsu expands FM3 32-bit MCUs with new MB9B120J series
Fujitsu has introduced a new series of 32-bit RISC microcontrollers based on the ARM CORTEX -M3 processor, expanding the frujitsu FM3 MCU to roughly 500 products in total. This new MCU series includes the MB9BF121JWQN model, which features low-pin-count QFN packaging and it is optimized for system control in household appliances, office automation systems and industrial equipment. The MCUs announced today are part of the FM3 basic group, which ba...
STMicroelectronics Announce Entry-Level STM32F4 Series Microcontroller
STMicroelectronics have today announced the new STM32F401 class-leading microcontroller featuring the ARM Cortex-M4 32-bit/DSP core. While running at lower frequency than other STM32F4 devices, it balances performance, power consumption and integration and claims the lead in its class by offering 105DMIPS at 84MHz, 187µA/MHz active current, 11µA typical STOP current, and a rich set of integrated features.