Micros

Renesas Electronics today announced the availability of the company’s 6 new 32-bit microcontrollers, the SH726A and SH726B. The new MCUs are designed to lower the system cost of products, such as car and home audio systems and industrial equipment, while reducing the mounting area. The SH726A and SH726B devices are new members of the SH7260 family of MCUs with large-capacity on-chip SRAM.

MSC now offers four new cost-effective ARM Cortex-M0 based 32-bit microcontrollers from Samsung Semiconductor. These MCUs are ideally suited for industrial and building automation applications that are sensitive to price. The S3FN429 MCU is provided in a 44-pin QFP package and has 32 KBytes of flash, 2 KBytes RAM, 3-phase motor controller, pulse position decoder, comparators, operational amplifier and 12-bit AD converters. This device is ideally ...

Designed to help developers obtain safety certifications, Texas Instruments Incorporated have announced its new Hercules safety microcontroller platform for medical, industrial and transportation applications. The platform consists of three ARM Cortex-based microcontroller families that deliver scalable performance, connectivity, memory and safety features for applications that require a high level of reliability. Unlike many microcontrollers tha...

Renesas Electronics today announced the availability of 32 new RL78/F12 16-bit microcontrollers (MCUs). These contribute to reduced system power consumption and higher performance for automotive control systems, including keyless entry, power window control, mirror control, and other applications.

Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe has announced the availability of a new series of its F2MC-8FX family of high-performance 8-bit microcontrollers with embedded flash memory. The new 32-pin MB95F430 series includes several products with four channels of built-in analogue voltage comparators as well as an operational amplifier. It is designed to meet the rapidly growing demand for 8-bit microcontrollers for system control of small home appliances, ligh...

MIPS Technologies, Inc. a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking and mobile applications, announced today that Loongson Technology Corp. Ltd. has licensed the MIPS32 and MIPS64 architectures for continued development of MIPS-Based Loongson CPU cores. With these processors, Loongson Technology is targeting a range of applications from high-end computing, cloud servers and terminals to e...

Atmel today announced five new devices to the Atmel SAM9 ARM926-based family of microcontrollers (MCUs). The new SAM9 devices target applications in industrial and building control, HVAC, Point of Sale (POS) terminals, printers and medical devices, smart grid with data concentrators, human machine interfaces (HMI) and machine-to-machine (M2M) market segments.

First semiconductor company to offer DLMS stack customised for MCUs, enabling interoperability for broad range of energy types and communication protocols

IAR Systems today announced that IAR KickStart Kits for the LPC11U00 series of microcontrollers as well as for the ARM Cortex-M3 based LPC1780 microcontroller family from NXP are now available.

Microchip Technology announced a 32-bit microcontroller (MCU)-based development kit for the creation of high-quality, 24-bit audio applications. The Audio Development Board for PIC32 MCUs features an 80 MIPS PIC32 MCU, a 24-bit Wolfson audio codec, a two-inch color LCD Display, a USB interface, and an onboard microphone. Supported by Microchip’s free software libraries, the kit provides a perfect solution for the development of speech and au...