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Microchip announces the latest additions to the Enhanced Mid-Range core 8-bit PIC® microcontroller (MCU) family with the peripheral-rich, low pin-count PIC12F(LF)1840 and PIC16F(LF)1847. Featuring 7 KB and 14 KB of on-chip Flash memory, respectively, and up to 1 K RAM, the new devices are the highest-memory PIC® MCUs in 8- and 18-pin packages. The LF versions feature eXtreme Low Power (XLP) Technology, which remains the industry-standard for b...

Microchip announces the launch of the first 32-bit-microcontroller-based, open-source development platform that is compatible with Arduino hardware and software. Designed and manufactured by Digilent, a Microchip Authorized Design Partner, the chipKIT platform is the first and only 32-bit Arduino solution to enable hobbyists and academics to easily, and inexpensively, integrate electronics into their projects, even if they do not have an electro...

Cortus S.A., the technology leader in ultra low power, silicon efficient 32-bit processor IP cores will be presenting their APS3 technology at the 48th Design Automation Conference in San Diego.

Freescale Semiconductor is making enterprise class features for security networking equipment available to small-medium businesses (SMB) with its new QorIQ P2041 quad-core processor. Targeting unified threat management (UTM) security appliances, the P2041 delivers up to 10 Gb/s performance in smaller, less expensive form factors such as the 1U chassis.

Microchip announced the expansion of its 8-bit enhanced mid-range core product family with the new, low-cost PIC16F1516/7/8/9 and PIC16F1526/7 (PIC16F15XX) microcontrollers (MCUs). These new, general-purpose MCUs feature Microchip’s eXtreme Low Power (XLP) technology which offers the industry’s lowest sleep currents, down to 20 nA, and active currents of less than 50 micro Amperes/MHz, to lower overall power consumption and extend battery lif...

Ushering in a new era of reliable data logging and RF communication capabilities, Texas Instruments announced the industry’s first ultra-low-power ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) 16-bit microcontrollers. Further demonstrating TI's embedded processing leadership, the new MSP430FR57xx FRAM series ensures data can be written more than 100 times faster and uses as little as 250 times less power than flash- and EEPROM-based microcontroll...

MSC now offers the first new RX210 Group 32-bit MCUs from Renesas Electronics. Key features of these devices are a low current consumption of just 0.21 mA/DMIPS at 50 MHz clock frequency and only 1.3 µA in deep standby mode with the real-time clock (RTC) running as well as a wide operating voltage range from 1.62 V to 5.5 V.

SANYO Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (an ON Semiconductor company) today announced the introduction of a new 8-bit flash microcontroller with USB 2.0 Full-Speed interface function and built-in DC-DC converter (step-up/step-down circuit) with selectable output voltages. The LC87F1864A device provides a solution that supports stable power supply, space efficient and cost effective designs in USB card reader products, such as integrated circuit (IC) cards.

Microchip announced an expansion of its low pin-count 16-bit eXtreme Low Power PIC MCUs by adding an on-chip 12-bit ADC, EEPROM, intelligent mTouch™ capacitive sensing, and the capability to run from a 5V supply. Featuring extremely low sleep currents down to 20 nA, which is common to all XLP PIC MCUs, the PIC24F32KA304 provides designers with versatile low-power MCUs for industrial, automotive, medical, utility metering, white goods and many ...

Texas Instruments announced a new “Tool Swap” program to give developers a chance to get rid of underperforming microcontroller (MCU) tools from competitors and make the switch to TI’s leading solutions. The program is sponsored by Digi-Key Corporation and will take place on May 3 – 5 at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC), Silicon Valley in San Jose, Calif. Each day of the program, the first 100 developers to bring a used competitiv...