Micros
TI’s OMAP4440 processor boasts new upgrades, raises the bar for mobile design
Texas Instruments announced that the OMAP4440 applications processor enhancements deliver impressive performance improvements beyond the OMAP4430 processor, including a 1.25x increase in graphics performance, a 30 percent decrease in webpage load time, a 2x increase in 1080p video playback performance and clock speeds as fast as 1.5 GHz per ARM® Cortex™-A9 MPCore™. These marked performance advantages, along with other feature enhancements, ...
Infineon Announced Microcontroller Development Kit Supporting IO-Link V1.1 Standard Communication Systems
Infineon Technologies announced the release of a design evaluation kit for development of communication systems supporting the IO-Link V1.1 standard, using the company’s 16-bit XE166 and 8-bit XC800 microcontrollers. The industry first solution leverages the real-time performance of the XE166 MCU and the cost-effective XC800 device for system designs that support up to eight IO-Link channels on the master with a FIFO buffer for each channel. D...
NXP - SmartMX2 Microcontroller for Secure Multi-Applications SmartMX2
NXP Semiconductors today launched the SmartMX2 – an all-new family of secure microcontrollers built on the groundbreaking IntegralSecurity™ architecture. The SmartMX2 is designed to provide unprecedented levels of security for multi-applications without compromising on convenience, performance or design productivity. With its flexibility and scalability, the SmartMX2 covers a wide range of applications such as eGovernment, banking, PayTV, mob...
SoC Powers Into Low Power RF
Analog Devices has built its new microcontroller based radio SoC on Arm’s 32bit RISC Cortex-M3. John Taylor got the low down at electronica.
NXP Unleashes SmartMX2 Microcontroller for Secure Multi-Applications
NXP Semiconductors N.V. today launched the SmartMX2 – an all-new family of secure microcontrollers built on the groundbreaking IntegralSecurity™ architecture. The SmartMX2 is designed to provide unprecedented levels of security for multi-applications without compromising on convenience, performance or design productivity. With its flexibility and scalability, the SmartMX2 covers a wide range of applications such as eGovernment, banking, PayTV...
STMicroelectronics Unveils Roadmap for ARM Cortex-M4 and -M0 Microcontrollers While Unleashing Ultimate Performance of Cortex-M3 with New STM32 F-2 Series
STMicroelectronics today announced that the roadmap for its breakthrough STM32 family of 32-bit MCUs based on ARM Cortex-M processor cores is to include new devices centered on the Cortex-M4 and the Cortex-M0 cores from ARM. In addition, ST also announced today availability of its new STM32 F-2 series MCUs that fully unleash the performance of the Cortex-M3 core.
New RL78 16-bit MCU family features 41 DMIPS processing power at just 70 µA/MHz power consumption and extensive built-in safety mechanisms
The new RL78 16-bit MCU family from Renesas Electronics feature a high processing power of 41 DMIPS (Dhrystone Million Instructions Per Second) when operating at 32 MHz and low power consumption of only 70 µA/MHz in active mode and 0.7 µA in standby mode with the real-time clock (RTC) and low-voltage detection (LVD) functions active.
Texas Instruments - AM1810 Sitara ARM MPU, a certified single-chip PROFIBUS solution, reduces power consumption and cost by up to 30 percent for industrial applications
exas Instruments announced its AM1810 Sitara ARM microprocessor (MPU), a new single-chip ARM9™ solution with an integrated PROFIBUS® interface, the worlds’ most popular fieldbus used for communications between factory automation equipment. This integrated, low-power device eliminates the need for an external PROFIBUS, ASIC or FPGA, which saves development time and cost while improving system performance. The AM1810 Sitara ARM MPU has ampl...
STMicroelectronics and IAR Systems Announce Software Support for SPEAr Microprocessors
STMicroelectronics and IAR Systems, a world leading provider of software development tools for embedded systems, announced today development tool support for ST’s SPEAr® family of microprocessor units (MPUs). This extends IAR Systems development tool support for ST products, which is already established with support for ST’s STM32 and STM8 microcontroller families.
MSC expands its product offering with 18 new RX63x 32-bit MCUs
MSC expands its product offering with the addition of two new groups of products in the RX600 Series of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) from Renesas Electronics: the RX630 Group for consumer, office automation and industrial equipment; and the RX63N/RX631 Group for networked equipment.