NXP Semiconductors has teamed up with industry leaders to launch a ‘Communicating Cars’ test drive along the ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) Corridor across Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. Starting today from the world’s leading electronics trade show – electronica – in Munich, the tour will see a convoy of Honda smart vehicles drive through 1300km of roads, including ITS test fields in Munich, Vienna and H...

NXP Semiconductors has announced that it will introduce and demonstrate its most recent solutions and share the latest product updates in A4.524 at electronica A4.524. Whether the solution is designed for mobile phones, the connected car, IoT or within the portable and wearable domain, NXP plays a major role in this evolution, powering the technology that enables secure connections for a smarter, more connected world.

  NXP Semiconductors has unveiled the LPC54100 series of MCUs, designed for ‘always-on’ sensor processing. According to NXP, the series boasts unmatched power efficiency, and consumes an average of 20% less power than its closest competitors.

The SmartMX product family from NXP Semiconductor has been selected for Ecuador’s new eID program. Working in close partnership with Ecuador's official secure document printer, Instituto Geográfico Militar del Ecuador (IGM), NXP has helped the country bring secure and multi-function national identification cards to its citizens, and has established a deep understanding of the technology, enabling future updates to be implemented effi...

NXP Semiconductors’s PN66T module combines a highly secure Smart MX2 element (P61), Near Field Communications (NFC) radio, operating system and trust provisioning. To accelerate the deployment and meet the increased demands around secure mobile transactions, the module features a loader service, which enables service providers to easily deliver new applications by significantly simplifying the value chain of deploying credentials to devices...

For contact and contactless payment systems, NXP Semiconductors has released Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMVCo) compliant hardware and software design kits. An EMV Level 1 compliant software stack is offered with the OM5597/RD2612 and the OM5597/RD2663 variants for both contact and contactless payment.

The SmartMX2 technology, developed by NXP Semiconductors, is claimed to be the world’s first secure smart card platform with MIFARE Plus and MIFARE DESFire EV1 functionality to be certified at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 5+. This certification allows services to be enhanced, providing security for electronic health cards or identity cards which have a payment and access functionality. Secure services in banking, e-Government identifica...

At the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair, which takes place from 27th-30th October 2014, NXP Semiconductors will be exhibiting it’s core segment LED driver platforms. The SSL5021/31 platform is designed for non-dimmable LED applications, while the SSL5231 platform is designed for dimmable LED applications.

Designed for accessing consumer cloud services, FIDO U2F secure element ICs have been released by NXP Semiconductors. For secure sign-in, Google have recently announced support for FIDO U2F Security Keys. Offering online users secure login to cloud services such as email, shopping, financial and social sites from both their desktop and mobile devices, the FIDO U2F ecosystem consists of web browsers, applications, hardware authentication devi...

Signalling an expansion of the ARM Cortex-M0+-based LPC800 series, the LPC82x family of MCUs has been released by NXP Semiconductors. Allowing embedded developers to meet the growing requirements for a smarter user experience in their next-gen product designs, the MCUs feature double the memory, a 1.2Ms/s ADC, DMA and triple the serial connectivity.

For Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communication, NXP Semiconductors will supply Delphi Automotive with it's RoadLINK chipset. By alerting drivers of critical traffic information, the wireless technology significantly improves road safety. Expected to be on the roads in as little as two years, Delphi’s platform will be first to market. 

The long-cherished vision of V2X communications is soon to become reality. Austria, Germany and the Netherlands are conducting a demonstration of cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) from Vienna to Rotterdam via Munich and Frankfurt.

NXP will present its high performance mixed signal solutions to enable 'Secure Connections for a Smarter World'. Key demonstrations at the show will include Cabrio Car, an automotive showcase of future of the connected car including use cases such as RFID number plates and e-driver licenses.

NXP Semiconductor is amongst a group of companies that have come together to form the RF Energy Alliance announced at European Microwave Week. Joining NXP in the launch are EGO Elektro-Gerätebau, Huber+Suhner, ITW, Rogers Corporation and Whirlpool R&D (an affiliate company of Whirlpool Corporation).

Demonstration of the benefits of having an NFC enabled TV Box e.g. having a personalised remote card that is programmed to play a certain channel with subtitles.

The world’s first solar-powered family car Stella made an appearance at London Docklands to be shown off to the UK media who were invited by NXP to take part in a roundtable discussion on security in the connected car.

The NFC TagWriter App from NXP is easy to use and has an endless amount of application possibilities. Learn how easy it is to start creating your own NFC tags.

LDMOS RF power transistors, designed for wireless/cellular base stations, have been released by NXP Semiconductors. The Gen9 transistors are aimed at Doherty power amplifiers – symmetric and asymmetric – and have been claimed to show 5% more efficiency within these applications.

GreenChip TEA1836 & TEA1892 controller ICs for ultra small 25-65W adapters. Watch this video from NXP Semiconductors to see the solution for the world's first truly portable power adapter.

The second product from the company's RoadLINK range, NXP Semiconductors introduces the TEF510x dual radio multi band RF transceiver. Designed specifically for Car-to-X (C2X) applications, the transceiver provides OEMs with an optimised solution to meet 802.11p modem functionality with the flexibility to support global deployments and various system configurations.