Micros

NEC Electronics Europe has announced the V850ES/Jx3-L 32-bit microcontroller family as further enhancement to its All Flash microcontroller line-up. This new family offers new levels of energy saving to power-sensitive applications that still demand a high level of performance, memory and peripheral integration such as battery-backed multi-phase electricity meters, high-end blood glucose meters, test and instrumentation equipment, point of sale e...

Microchip announces two new Baseline 8-bit Flash PIC® microcontrollers with non-volatile Flash Data Memory (FDM) in 8- and 14-pin packages. Now offering 64 bytes of non-volatile data memory, an 8 MHz internal oscillator, a Device Reset Timer (DRT), up to three channels of 8-bit Analog-to-Digital Conversion (ADC), and up to two comparators - engineers using the low-cost Baseline PIC microcontrollers now have an increasingly diverse feature set to...

STMicroelectronics has announced a new ultra-low-cost series of Flash microcontrollers (MCUs) intended for highly cost-sensitive products such as electric bicycles (ebikes), air conditioning, small appliances and sensors. The ST7FOX series includes devices with from 2KB to 8KB of on-chip Flash memory, and with eight to 32 pins, all of which are priced below the critical 50 cent ($0.50) threshold.

Texas Instruments has announced the availability of five families of MSP430F2xx high-performance microcontrollers. The new microcontrollers provide a direct upgrade path for corresponding devices in TI’s popular MSP430F1xx generation of ultra-low-power MCUs, easing development and offering complete software and pin compatibility while delivering twice the performance, twice the battery life, and increased memory. MSP430F2xx MCUs enable deve...

Renesas Technology Europe has announced the availability of the SH7763 highly integrated microprocessor for sophisticated consumer applications such as high-end audio/video equipment, media servers and set-top-boxes. It is also suits telecom-based designs such as residential gateways, routers and IP-feature phones. In addition, the microprocessor is ideal for migrating designs from industrial PCs (IPC) to deeply embedded hardware. This would achi...

Silicon Laboratories has announced the expansion of its small form factor microcontrollers (MCUs) with the C8051T610 family of low cost 8-bit MCUs. Pin-for-pin compatible with Silicon Laboratories’ C8051F310 family, the T610 offers customers a cost-effective alternative in the same small footprint. The C8051T610 family is ideal for consumer and industrial applications that are under increasing cost pressure, including toys, camera modules, cel...

Renesas Technology Europe has introduced a total of eight products in four groups in the SH7670 group of the SuperH Family. These microprocessors each incorporate an Ethernet controller and USB 2.0 host on a single chip and are intended for applications such as digital audio visual, office automation, and factory automation systems requiring network connection functionality.

Renesas Technology Europe has announced enhancements to its H8SX family of 32-bit CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) microcontrollers. With the addition of the H8SX/1638 and H8SX/1648 groups, there are a total of eight models featuring a 50MHz maximum operating frequency, 50MIPS performance, and comprehensive on-chip peripheral functions. The enhanced family of microcontrollers offers a wide range of products ideal for varied systems in PC...

STMicroelectronics has announced a new software library for the recently-announced STM32 Flash microcontroller family – which is based on the breakthrough ARM Cortex-M3 core – designed specifically to simplify the testing and securing end-product approval and compliance with the demands of the IEC 60335-1 standard*, when the MCU is used in household appliances. Since October 2007, IEC 60335-1 requires the software of MCU-based appliances to b...

Tensilica and eASIC Corporation have announced a partnership to remove the cost barriers for developing custom embedded System-on-a-Chip. (SoCs). Through this partnership eASIC now provides free access to Tensilica’s Diamond Standard microprocessor and DSP cores for its free mask charge, no-minimum order ASICs. This unique combination enables embedded system designers to develop Diamond processor-based SoCs for applications in any production vo...