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Building on a growing platform of microcontroller (MCU) and microprocessor (MPU) development tools, Freescale Semiconductor continues to enable advanced development and rapid prototyping for medical, industrial and multi-market applications through its Tower System development platform. Today, Freescale introduced four processor modules and two interchangeable peripheral modules for the Tower System. Each of these development boards, or modules, ...

Renesas announced the availability of two new 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), the SH7268 and SH7269. They deliver increased functionality and enable a smaller-size solution for digital car audio, consumer, and industrial applications that drive a colour TFT-LCD. These new MCUs share the following features: (1) large-capacity 2.5 megabyte (MB) on-chip SRAM that is almost double the size of the predecessor SH7266 MCU, allowing display of WVGA resol...

Renesas today announced the availability of two new 32-bit All Flash microcontrollers (MCUs), with processing performance of 1024 Dhrystone MIPS (million instructions per second, Note 1) at a clock speed of 200 megahertz (MHz), the world’s highest among the existing 32-bit dual-core MCUs with embedded flash memory. The new MCUs have two built-in CPU core, 64 kilobytes (KB) of random access memory (RAM) available for each core, 2 megabytes (MB)...

Delivering a fun platform for learning and evaluating real-time software and Stellaris microcontrollers (MCUs), Texas Instruments today announced the availability of its new Robotic Evaluation Board (EVALBOT) for use with Micrium’s µC/OS-III. The evaluation kit is a mini robot that allows developers to experience the Stellaris ARM® Cortex™-M3-based LM3S9B92 MCU in real-world applications that leverage the processor’s i...

Renesas Electronics today announced the release of 56 new 8-bit microcontrollers within the R8C/Lx Series. The new R8C/LAxA product groups offer ultra-low power consumption ranked among the best in the industry along with the company’s low-power K0 (8-bit) and K0R (16-bit) MCUs. TheR8C/Lx MCUs comprise a total of four groups ranging from 32 to 80 pins and up to 64 kilobytes (KB) of programmable flash memory. Sample shipments of the first produc...

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The new generation of low power x86 small form factor processors, available with the 45nm Intel® Atom™ technology, opens windows to extraordinary improvements in healthcare.

Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe today introduced the 2nd generation single-chip 8-bit MCU featuring embedded FRAM (Ferroelectric Random Access Memory). The single-chip MB95R203A protects high-speed write operations against power supply interruption; eliminates chip-to-chip interconnect and maximises transaction speed and efficiencies.

STMicroelectronics has extended its STM8L EnergyLite ultra low-power microcontroller family with new devices offering enhanced features, such as larger program/data memory, high-accuracy time-keeping, a controller for as many as16 touch-sensitive keys, and support for 128-bit AES encryption.

Enabling the easiest possible design starts using 32-bit microcontrollers, STMicroelectronics today announced the STM32 Discovery Kit, a hardware development platform priced at less than $10 and supported by either free or very-low-cost downloadable development tools from major third-party vendors Atollic, IAR and Keil.