MU and STMicroelectronics have announced that MU’s US-304 portable ultrasound imager, powered by ST’s STHV800pulser, is aiming to increase the quality of point-of-care medical diagnostics in remote rural areas of Africa. MU’s device has been developed for the 'Doctor Car' mobile-clinic project to provide medical care in remote rural areas of Africa.

Microcontrollers, processors and SoCs are at the heart of the majority of modern embedded systems, including connected sensor nodes at the edges of the internet of things (IoT). Sally Ward-Foxton explains. At this year’s Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany, some of the biggest product launches were in the realm of microcontrollers.

To aid the development of motion sensing applications, STMicroelectronics has introduced three additions to its Open.MEMS portfolio of free and software libraries.

STMicroelectronics has surpassed 2bn unit sales of its robust and versatile STM8 MCUs, less than two years after reaching 1bn unit sales, noting particularly strong success in China. Aided by these accelerating STM8 sales, ST’s share of the general-purpose MCU market has grown to 12.7% in 2015 from 8.2% in 2013, according to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS).

STMicroelectronics has introduced two 36V op amps that deliver enhanced performance and ruggedness in automotive and industrial applications. The op amps feature a wide supply-voltage range, stability in challenging operating conditions, and tolerance of electrostatic discharge (ESD) up to 4kV (HBM).

Check out ST’s solution for power delivery over USB 6, using an STM32 Nucleo / X-Nucleo solution for the power-source side and a Google Chrome book and ST-based solution on the receiver side.

ST offers a suite of products, including Digital Controllers, power MOSFETs, and integrated receiver ICs, to support Wireless Charging applications for Wearable, Consumer, and Automotive Devices.

This week’s IoT Asia exhibition, taking place in Singapore, will see STMicroelectronics demonstrate its IoT solutions, including those for smart buildings.

STMicroelectronics is showcasing its latest technologies and products for smart driving, smart environments and smart things at electronica China in Hall E2 Booth 2102 at the New International Expo Center, Shanghai, 15th to 17th March 2016.

Expanding its Intelligent Power Module portfolio, STMicroelectronics has announced the SLLIMM-nano 2nd series, adding higher power levels and new package options that are especially suited to increasing the efficiency and reducing cost. The  devices integrate three half-bridge high-voltage gate drivers, six IGBTs and six fast and ultra-soft freewheeling recovery diodes.

STMicroelectronics announced a family of power-conversion ICs dedicated to 48V power architectures. To meet ever-growing performance demands, servers and processors have ratcheted up their compute power-and power consumption-with multicore chips. This next-gen power architecture aims to significantly cut wasted power inside data centre servers and meets the requirements of the new 48V architecture announced by Google.

STMicroelectronics has extended incentives for designers to choose its popular STM8 MCUs for economical computing tasks in the smart devices that support modern work and life. The latest move by ST, working with Cosmic, means all the software tools that designers need to build, debug, and fine-tune STM8 applications are now available free of charge.

In order to create new opportunities for power supply designers to achieve greater efficiency in low voltage power supplies for computers, telecom networks, industrial and consumer devices, STMicroelectronics has introduced its latest MDmesh DM2 N-channel Power MOSFET transistors.

Steve Rogerson looks at the effects of automotive functional safety standard ISO26262 at component level. The arrival of the ISO26262 functional safety standard for automotive is causing headaches not just for the car manufacturers and their tier one suppliers, but right the way down the supply chain. 

STMicroelectronics is now supplying its latest long-range, 77GHz, radar chips to leading automotive customers. 24GHz systems have spearheaded the introduction of on-board automotive radar by enabling affordable, short- and mid-range smart-driving features such as blind-spot detection, collision avoidance and lane-departure warning.

ams and STMicroelectronics have revealed that ARM is using the companies’ NFC solution to provide the secure, high-performance NFC and MCU functionality in its wearable reference design. The NFC solution developed jointly by ST and ams is comprised of the ST54E from ST, a System-in-Package featuring an NFC Controller (NFCC) and a secure element compliant with the Global Platform standard v2.2 and ams’s AS39230 NFC analogue front end w...

STMicroelectronics has introduced the first microprocessors in the SPC57 family that break new ground in automotive applications by offering the 'industry's best' combination of safety assurance and cost/performance. Building on the successful 32-bit Power Architecture SPC5 microprocessor platform, the product family targets cost-sensitive automotive systems that must meet the most stringent safety requirements, up to the highest ISO26262 ASIL-D ...

The 150-250m connected cars expected on our roads by 2020 will be kept safe by chips like the latest secure MCUs from STMicroelectronics. Internet connectivity will bring a multitude of services to vehicles and their owners, such as software updates, service packs, location-based information, social media, streaming entertainment content and emergency support.

Just over a year after its launch, the STM32 Open Development Environment from STMicroelectronics has grown into a complete integrated ecosystem for developers of embedded systems, including applications for the Internet of Things (IoT). The STM32 Open Development Environment (STM32 ODE) is an ideal way to start development of innovative devices and applications with state-of-the-art ST components.

The first end-to-end security architecture for biometric fingerprint authentication has been presented at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona. It offers OEMs the opportunity to easily deploy this consumer-friendly feature in the latest generation of wearable and consumer electronics devices.