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Renesas Electronics Europe Announces New Low-Power, High-Speed Industrial Ethernet Controllers
Renesas Electronics Europe today announced two new Industrial Ethernet controllers that include support for multiple communication protocols, helping system designers reduce their bill of materials and enable more efficient machine operation. Samples of the first products in the series are scheduled to be available in the end of 2012, and will support CC-Link IE, EtherCAT, and EtherNet/IP with support for further standards to follow at a later da...
Nuvoton Launches NuMicro Mini51 Series
Following the success of the NuMicro M051 series, Nuvoton Technology today launched the brand new Mini51 series 32-bit microcontroller, powered by the ARM Cortex-M0 processor. Equipped with a variety of analog and mixed signal components and high-speed communication interfaces, the Mini51 series has been elaborated to meet customer’s need in reduced component count, board space, low power consumption, low cost, and high performance.
Analog Devices’ Advanced Digital Power Controller Targets High Efficiency, Isolated Power Supplies
Analog Devices, Inc. today introduced the ADP1046 digital power controller for high efficiency AC-to-DC and isolated DC-to-DC power supply systems. The ADP1046 is a flexible controller with seven PWM (pulse width modulation) logic outputs that can be easily programmed using an easy-to-use graphic user interface (GUI) with I2C interface.
Energy Micro adds new ultra-compact BGA48 package to Gecko range for space-constrained applications
Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller and radio company, today announced that it has extended its EFM32 Gecko range of microcontrollers with the addition of products supplied in a very thin, fine-pitch BGA48 packaging.
Microchip brings cost-effective advanced analog and digital integration to 8-bit PIC microcontrollers
Microchip Technology Inc., today announced from DESIGN West in San Jose the expansion of its 8-bit PIC16F(LF)178X enhanced mid-range core microcontroller (MCU) family to include advanced analog and integrated communication peripherals, such as on-chip 12-bit Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs), 8-bit Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs), operational amplifiers, and high-speed comparators, along with EUSART (including LIN), I2C and SPI interface pe...
Renesas Electronics Packs RX Punch into a Smaller Package to Support Cost-Sensitive Industrial and Consumer Applications
Renesas Electronics today announced the availability of 12 new microcontrollers (MCUs) in the high-performance RX631 Group. The new devices bring the outstanding 1.65 Dhrystone MIPS (DMips) performance and advanced connectivity features of the RX631 MCUs in smaller 64- and 48-pin packages with smaller flash memory footprints of 256KB, 384KB and 512KB to serve cost and space constrained applications
Renesas Electronics Expands 32-bit RX600 Microcontroller Family with Digital Power Control Series
Renesas Electronics today expanded its RX600 microcontroller (MCU) family with the new 32-bit RX62G group. The MCUs are optimized for digital power control applications, including motor control with power factor correction (PFC), digital power supply, uninterrupted power supplies (UPS) and solar inverters.
NXP Adds LPC1100XL Low Power Platform and EEPROM to Cortex-M0 Portfolio
NXP Semiconductors N.V. has released the LPC1100XL microcontrollers series featuring extra-low power. With the industry’s lowest active power consumption at 110 uA/MHz and reduced deep sleep current below 2µA, the LPC1100XL has set a new benchmark for low-power ARM® Cortex™-M0 microcontrollers. Also today, NXP announced the new LPC11E00 series for space-constrained applications requiring dedicated EEPROM..
Energy Micro announces immediate availability of EFM32 Gecko development kit
Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller and radio company, today announced the availability of a new development kit for its EFM32 Gecko microcontroller family. Priced at $309, the kit includes full SEGGER J-Trace and J-Link support, reducing the need for additional debugging tools.
Atmel Broadens Popular AVR MCU Family: More Memory, Connectivity, Integration and Ultra-Low Power
Atmel® Corporation today announced 14 new devices in its widely adopted Atmel AVR microcontroller (MCU) family, providing more options to meet unique design requirements. Used by well over 100,000 engineers worldwide, AVR microcontrollers are regarded for their performance, power efficiency and flexibility across many application areas.