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MSC now offers eight new ultra low power 32-bit MCUs in the V850ES/Jx3-L series from Renesas Electronics. These devices are especially suited to mobile smart metering and medical applications with high memory demand.

MSC now offers eight new ultra low power 32-bit MCUs in the V850ES/Jx3-L series from Renesas Electronics. These devices are especially suited to mobile smart metering and medical applications with high memory demand.

IAR Systems announced that IAR KickStart Kit for LPC1227 is now available. The kit includes a development board with an ARM Cortex-M0 based LPC1227 microcontroller, peripherals and connectors, an IAR J-Link Lite debug probe providing SWD debugging, software development tools and board support packages for various RTOSes.

Freescale has worked with systems designer Aewin and network connectivity provider Atheros to develop a unified threat management (UTM) design allowing networking equipment companies to source $100 (USD) original design manufacturer (ODM) solutions for the small/medium business (SMB) and branch office markets.

Freescale Semiconductor – the communications processing leader and provider of industry-leading DSP technology – is transforming the future of wireless infrastructure equipment with the introduction of a highly integrated base station-on-chip portfolio built on advanced heterogeneous multicore technology. Freescale’s new QorIQ Qonverge series is the first scalable family of products sharing the same architecture to address multi-standard re...

Freescale announced today that one of its Power Architecture based Qorivva microcontrollers (MCUs) reached unprecedented levels of performance in an industry-standard automotive benchmark test. The Qorivva 32-bit MPC5674F achieved a benchmark score of 305 Automarks™ in the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium’s (EEMBC®) AutoBench™ suite of tests, demonstrating more than three times the performance of the previous hig...

Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller company, has announced it is making its EFM32 Gecko and Tiny Gecko product lines available in the space-saving QFP48 package. The smaller 48-pin ARM® Cortex(TM)-M3 based microcontroller options will enable manufacturers to take device footprint down to 7mm x 7mm at a pin pitch of 0.5mm.

STMicroelectronics announced software development-tool support for its SPEAr300 and SPEAr600 family of microprocessor units (MPUs) with the ARM® Development Studio 5 (DS™-5). ST’s SPEAr (Structured Processor Enhanced Architecture) embedded microprocessors provide high levels of computing power and connectivity. Manufactured in state-of-the-art low-power HCMOS (high-speed CMOS) process technologies, the devices combine one or two advanced A...

Renesas Mobile Corporation, an innovative supplier of advanced cellular semiconductor solutions and platforms, today announced that it will exhibit the industry’s first mobile application processor system-on-chip (SoC), the SH-Mobile APE5R, featuring Imagination Technologies’ POWERVR SGX MP™ (multi-processor) graphics at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2011. Blazingly fast, the SH-Mobile APE5R delivers more than five times the graphics performa...

Renesas Electronics, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of the R8C/3NT group of microcontrollers (MCUs) that feature an industry-leading small package, built-in flash memory and touch key functions. The new MCUs are suitable for products such as smartphones, mobile phones, e-book readers, digital cameras, and handheld game consoles.