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Continuing its mission to provide easy-to-use tools, Texas Instruments announced the Grace software platform, a free visual plug-in that enables developers to easily enable and configure ultra-low-power MSP430 microcontroller peripherals through a graphical user interface (GUI). With Grace software, developers can interact with buttons, pull-down menus and helpful pop-ups to generate easy-to-understand C code that automatically configures the low...

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, has expanded 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.

Silicon Laboratories introduced two USB microcontroller (MCU) families that provide the industry's fastest, easiest and most economical path to USB connectivity. Expanding on Silicon Labs' popular USB MCU portfolio, the new C8051F38x and C8051T62x/32x USB MCU families are ideal for a wide range of applications such as home automation systems, thermostats, USB dongles, smart card readers, GPS localizers, touch panels, sensor data loggers, portable...

NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today announced its LPC11U00 series – a low-cost ARM Cortex™-M0 based microcontroller featuring a new, highly flexible USB architecture, as well as a smart card interface. Equipped with a highly configurable Full Speed USB 2.0 device controller, the LPC11U00 brings unparalleled design flexibility and reliable USB connectivity for consumer electronics and mobile devices.

Rapid Electronics can able to help customers test and trial new microcontroller systems with its range of evaluation tools and development platforms for ST and Fastrax ICs. Fastrax is one of the leading names in GPS positioning technology, and now available from Rapid is a mini evaluation kit and application board for the Fastrax range of GPS receiver modules. Powered by USB, the small, compact PCB provides user-friendly PC evaluation and testing...

PHYTEC America, a leader in miniature, low power, high-performance system on module technology announces the phyCORE-AM3517 System on Module (SOM), populated with Texas Instruments’ Sitara ARM Cortex-A8 AM3517 microprocessor .

Focusing on metering and smart grid applications, Texas Instruments announced the MSP430AFE2xx series of metrology analog front end (AFE) ultra-low-power 16-bit microcontrollers. Part of TI's leading embedded processing portfolio, the low-cost MSP430AFE series offers the industry’s first programmable single-phase metrology devices supported with multiple communication interfaces. The microcontrollers enable system partitioning in metering appli...

MSC now offers the new R8C/LA3A and R8C/LA5A MCU product groups from Renesas Electronics. The products are ideally suitable for cost-sensitive battery-powered metering applications with LCD display. The R8C/LA3A and R8C/LA5A groups are available in low-profile quad flat packages (LQFP) with 32 pins or 52 pins.

Microchip announces an expansion of its 8-bit segmented LCD microcontroller (MCU) family with five new devices combining low-cost LCD control with industry-leading low power consumption. The PIC16LF190x MCUs enable the implementation of LCD into cost-sensitive power-efficient designs, such as security tokens, smart cards, medical devices, home appliances, key fobs and other segmented LCD applications. Featuring eXtreme Low Power (XLP) technology...

Microchip announces the expansion of its 28-/40-pin PIC16F72x microcontroller (MCU) family with two new 20-pin devices. The PIC16F(LF)720 and PIC16F(LF)721 feature low power consumption, making them suitable for low-power and battery-powered applications. The addition of smaller pin-count options, with up to 7 KB of self-write Flash programme memory and a temperature indicator module, extends Microchip’s 8-bit MCU family into even lower-cost ...