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Pioneering the market for ‘smart’ car keys, NXP Semiconductors N.V. today announced the availability of its production-ready single-chip solution for multifunction car keys - the NCF2970 (KEyLink Lite). Enhancing the functionality of car keys by supporting Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, NXP’s KEyLink Lite enables car manufacturers to offer a new driving experience with keys that connect to external NFC-compliant devices, such a...

NXP Semiconductors N.V. announced its next generation of CAN transceivers with the introduction of the dual high-speed (HS) CAN transceiver, TJA1048. Enabling simpler and more efficient in-vehicle networking design, the TJA1048 is a performance and space optimized solution for electronic control units (ECUs) used in safety, comfort and environment-friendly automotive applications that carry more than one HS-CAN communication interface. It is idea...

NXP Semiconductors announced that its near field communication (NFC) technology has been selected by Sony Ericsson for inclusion in its Android-based smartphones. Sony Ericsson, a leading, global mobile handset manufacturer focused on communications and entertainment, will use NFC to further enhance its consumers’ mobile experiences, creating a portfolio of smartphones that enable mobile transactions. Using simple touch gestures, consumers wi...

NXP Semiconductors announced a new family of small-signal MOSFETs delivering breakthrough low RDS(on) performance. The low RDS(on) P-Channel and N-Channel MOSFETs enable lower power consumption for consumer electronics applications such as notebooks, tablets, handsets, e-readers, set-top-boxes and LCD TVs. These high-efficiency MOSFETs are available in high-volume SOT23 and SOT457 packages with a compact 3-mm x 3-mm footprint, allowing design eng...

NXP Semiconductors N.V. has announced availability of its LPC1788 microcontroller – the industry’s first ARM® Cortex™-M3-based MCU to be shipping in volume with an integrated LCD controller. With up to 96 KB of on-chip SRAM and a 32-bit external memory interface, the LPC178x series allows customers to easily and cost-effectively add high-quality graphics to their applications. With support for a wide range of graphics display panels, the L...

NXP Semiconductors N.V. has announced three teams of finalists in its first-ever High Performance RF (HPRF) Design Challenge. Selected from among 400 entrants, three regional winning teams from EMEA, Asia Pacific and the Americas have been invited to the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium for 2011 (IMS2011) next week in Baltimore, Maryland.

NXP Semiconductors N.V. has announced the launch of a complete line of overmolded plastic (OMP) RF power devices with peak powers ranging from 2.5 to 200 Watts. The new range of OMP devices will be introduced as a complement to NXP’s extensive range of products in ceramic packages, providing customers a choice for more cost-sensitive applications, while maintaining the required level of RF performance.

Designed for the toughest engineering environments, NXP Semiconductors N.V. has unveiled its new XR family of “eXtremely Rugged” LDMOS RF power transistors. The XR family is designed tough-as-nails to withstand the harsh fault conditions often found in applications such as industrial lasers, metal etching and concrete drilling. Based on NXP’s industry-leading LDMOS technology, the XR family extends LDMOS into the few remaining domains that ...

NXP Semiconductors N.V. has introduced its eighth generation (Gen8) LDMOS RF power transistors for wireless base stations – allowing signal bandwidths up to 60MHz and providing optimized I/O matching structures to enable wideband, affordable, compact, multi-standard and highly efficient Doherty power amplifiers.

This presentation gives an overview of NXP's new LPC4300 Cortex-M4 digital signal controller, including a discussion of Cortex-M4 features, product family members, package options, and tools.

NXP Semiconductors announced the launch of the first near field communication (NFC) Partner Program to support mobile phone and consumer device manufacturers wanting to integrate NFC into upcoming designs in China and Taiwan.

NXP announced availability of its LPC1788 microcontroller – the industry’s first ARM Cortex-M3-based MCU to be shipping in volume with an integrated LCD controller. With up to 96 KB of on-chip SRAM and a 32-bit external memory interface, the LPC178x series allows customers to easily and cost-effectively add high-quality graphics to their applications. With support for a wide range of graphics display panels, the LPC178x series is ideal for in...

NXP announced that it is shipping 15 new devices in the NextPower range of 25V and 30V MOSFETs in its LFPAK package. The latest additions to NXP’s power MOSFET portfolio deliver uniquely balanced characteristics across the six most important parameters for high-performance, high-reliability switching applications, while providing the industry’s lowest RDS(on) with sub-1 mΩ types in both 25V and 30V. While traditional approaches focus pr...

NXP Semiconductors N.V. will demonstrate a component for a complete, mixed signal, Base Transceiver Station (BTS) radio at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2011) to be held June 5-10 in Baltimore, Maryland (booth #420). The NXP BTS transceiver component demonstrator fully supports the demanding requirements of leading-edge wireless air interface standards, such as LTE Advanced, and showcases NXP’s new and complete product portfol...

NXP Semiconductors N.V. this week gave a live demonstration of car-to-x (C2X) communication on a public road in the Netherlands. With this demo, NXP is the first semiconductor company to take the step from showing concepts to actually demonstrating an automotive-ready hardware platform for connected mobility. NXP has co-developed the C2X platform with Australian-based Cohda Wireless. Combined with telematics for location-based services and networ...

NXP announced its intent to make its JenNet-IP ultra-low-power, IEEE 802.15.4-based wireless connectivity network layer software available under an Open Source license, as part of its vision to enable the “Internet of Things.”

NXP Semiconductors N.V. have announced its intent to make its JenNet-IP ultra-low-power, IEEE 802.15.4-based wireless connectivity network layer software available under an Open Source license, as part of its vision to enable the “Internet of Things.” In recent years, interest in the Internet of Things – in which every device has an IP address and could be monitored and controlled via a secure Internet connection – has gained considerable...

Introduction to LPCXpresso Tool and software

The MIFARE4Mobile Industry Group, consisting of leading players in the Near Field Communication (NFC) ecosystem including Ericsson, Gemalto, Giesecke & Devrient, NXP Semiconductors, Oberthur Technologies, STMicroelectronics and ViVOtech, today announced the new roadmap for MIFARE4Mobile™ specifications.