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NXP LPC1100L and LPC1300L MCUs Based on ARM Cortex-M Series Achieve Industry’s Lowest 32-Bit Operating Power
NXP Semiconductors N.V. today unveiled its LPC1100L and LPC1300L microcontrollers, which have set new benchmarks in 32-bit active power consumption. The LPC1100L and LPC1300L series introduce a new low-power platform which combines ultra-low leakage design techniques with NXP’s optimized power-efficient libraries. In addition, the MCUs feature unique API-driven power profiles which provide users with ready-to-use power management templates. By ...
STMicroelectronics Drives Extra Performance and Value into Entry-Level 32-bit Microcontrollers
As manufacturers seek to differentiate their products with new features that add value for customers, STMicroelectronics is helping designers meet higher product-performance targets at ultra-competitive prices by introducing its STM32 Value High-Density microcontrollers. These new microcontrollers offer extra program memory and on-chip functions, extending the range of the STM32 Value Line family to include devices from 16 to 512 Kbytes of embedd...
Freescale introduces i.MX53 processors for in-car multimedia applications
As consumers increasingly embrace downloadable applications that run on popular mobile products such as tablets and smartphones, automakers are looking to differentiate new car models with high performance driver information systems (DIS) that enable similar use cases for customisable in-dash applications and fully reconfigurable instrument clusters.
Offering industry’s highest-performing single-core ARM Cortex-A8 and extreme system integration, Texas Instruments introduces its newest AM389x Sitara ARM microprocessors
Texas Instruments expands its portfolio of industry-leading Sitara ARM microprocessors (MPUs) with new AM389x Sitara ARM MPUs that dramatically boost performance and integration. Offering the industry’s highest-performing, single-core ARM Cortex™-A8 with performance at up to 1.5 GHz, the AM389x Sitara ARM MPUs also integrate peripherals that make them perfect for applications such as single-board computers, gateways, routers, servers, industr...
Creating sophisticated GUIs has never been easier
Building an application that integrates an advanced colour LCD may seem like a high-end specification, but thanks to the continued price erosion of display technology it is becoming increasingly common for OEMs to replace older segmented LED displays with monochrome or colour LCD alternatives.
Freescale expands prototyping possibilities through new Tower System modules
Building on a growing platform of microcontroller (MCU) and microprocessor (MPU) development tools, Freescale Semiconductor continues to enable advanced development and rapid prototyping for medical, industrial and multi-market applications through its Tower System development platform. Today, Freescale introduced four processor modules and two interchangeable peripheral modules for the Tower System. Each of these development boards, or modules, ...
Renesas - SuperH Microcontrollers with Built-In Large-Capacity 2.5MB SRAM
Renesas announced the availability of two new 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), the SH7268 and SH7269. They deliver increased functionality and enable a smaller-size solution for digital car audio, consumer, and industrial applications that drive a colour TFT-LCD. These new MCUs share the following features: (1) large-capacity 2.5 megabyte (MB) on-chip SRAM that is almost double the size of the predecessor SH7266 MCU, allowing display of WVGA resol...
Renesas Electronics Introduces V850E2M/MN4 32-Bit All Flash™ Microcontrollers
Renesas today announced the availability of two new 32-bit All Flash microcontrollers (MCUs), with processing performance of 1024 Dhrystone MIPS (million instructions per second, Note 1) at a clock speed of 200 megahertz (MHz), the world’s highest among the existing 32-bit dual-core MCUs with embedded flash memory. The new MCUs have two built-in CPU core, 64 kilobytes (KB) of random access memory (RAM) available for each core, 2 megabytes (MB)...
TI's Stellaris EVALBOT makes experimenting with microcontrollers fun and easy
Delivering a fun platform for learning and evaluating real-time software and Stellaris microcontrollers (MCUs), Texas Instruments today announced the availability of its new Robotic Evaluation Board (EVALBOT) for use with Micrium’s µC/OS-III. The evaluation kit is a mini robot that allows developers to experience the Stellaris ARM® Cortex™-M3-based LM3S9B92 MCU in real-world applications that leverage the processor’s i...
Renesas Electronics to Release 16 New Product Types in R8C/Lx Series of MCUs with On-chip LCD Controller and Ultra-low Power Consumption, offering standby currents down to 10 nA
Renesas Electronics today announced the release of 56 new 8-bit microcontrollers within the R8C/Lx Series. The new R8C/LAxA product groups offer ultra-low power consumption ranked among the best in the industry along with the company’s low-power K0 (8-bit) and K0R (16-bit) MCUs. TheR8C/Lx MCUs comprise a total of four groups ranging from 32 to 80 pins and up to 64 kilobytes (KB) of programmable flash memory. Sample shipments of the first produc...