Micros

NEC Electronics announced the availability of twelve new 16-bit All Flash microcontrollers (MCUs) with built-in Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 function and industry-leading low power consumption. The new offering includes six 48-pin MCUs (78K0R/KC3-L) and six 64-pin MCUs (78K0R/KE3-L).

Renesas Technology Europe today announced the SH74552 and SH74562 32-bit MCUs for applications of advanced driver assistance systems, needed in automobile “active safety” systems, such as those for obstacle detection and risk avoidance. Sample shipments will begin in May 2010.

Microchip announces a new member of its popular 8- and 14-pin PIC16F61X 8-bit PIC microcontroller (MCU) family, targeting cost-effective general-purpose applications. The PIC12F617 MCU features 3.5kbyte of self-programmable Flash program memory, and peripherals such as a 10-bit Analogue-to-Digital Converter (ADC), comparator, Pulse-Width Modulator (PWM) and VREF for closed-loop-control applications—all in a miniature 3 mm x 3 mm DFN package. ...

NEC Electronics Europe announced the release of its 78K0/Ix2 LED microcontroller (MCU) demonstration kit based on NEC Electronics’ 78K0/Ix2 lighting ASSP. The kit demonstrates how an efficient and intelligent LED driver design can be implemented without any additional driver ICs but only by a single flexible microcontroller capable of maintaining programmable constant current through multiple LED channels only using the integrated unique periph...

Analog Devices introduced a pair of highly integrated precision analog microcontrollers featuring on-chip memory, data converters, and other analog peripherals that combine to deliver the highest level of programmability and smallest package size. Effective for digital diagnostics in optical transceivers and modules based on both fixed and tunable frequency lasers, the ADuC7023 and ADuC7122 precision analog microcontrollers use an ARM7 processor ...

Responding to the demand for more intuitive, easy-to-use software throughout every design stage, Texas Instruments today announced controlSUITE software for its TMS320C2000 microcontrollers (MCUs) that enable real-time control applications.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced a microcontroller that can be certified to Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL3) and Automotive SIL D (ASILD) while significantly reducing associated system cost and performance overheads. The Toshiba SIL3/ASILD implementation delivers a more cost-effective solution than alternative methods owing to the fact that it has a smaller chip size, smaller program requirement and better performance than conventional du...

Analog Devices unveiled the latest entries in its Blackfin family of processors for converged digital signal and control processing applications – the Blackfin BF50x series. Delivering up to 100% greater performance than competing, comparably priced processors with integrated analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and flash memory, BF50x series processors enable designers to achieve significant gains in signal conversion and computational precisio...

Toshiba’s new microcontroller features an LCD controller for STN/TFT colour displays up to a maximum of 1024 x 768 pixels, a touch screen interface and an image process accelerator that provides on-chip scaling, filtering and image blending at resolutions up to 800 x 480 pixels.

Nuvoton Technology Corporation announced the launch of a brand new product line — NuMicro Family, the 32-bit Microcontroller based on ARM Cortex-M0. NuMicro family adopts the newest processor of ARM Cortex-M0, featured with smallest size, lowest power consumption, optimized instruction set. As a powerful microcontroller, NuMicro® Family is equipped with various built-in analog, mixed-signal components, and all kinds of high-speed communication...