Micros
High Performance MCU in Only 2x2 Mm2 from Silicon Labs
Silicon Laboratories has announced the expansion of its best-in-class small form factor microcontrollers (MCUs) with the C8051T606 low cost 8-bit mixed-signal MCU. The world’s smallest MCU, the C8051T606 provides a high degree of functional density for programmable embedded systems in a tiny 2x2 mm2 footprint. The high-performance CPU enables greater design flexibility, and the integration of a voltage monitor and precision oscillator make the...
NXP Claims Industry’s Lowest Power Cortex-M3 based microcontrollers
NXP has introduced what it says is the industry’s lowest power 32-bit Cortex-M3 based microcontrollers, maintaining its commitment to innovation in energy-efficiency and further extending its broad range of ARM-based processors. The new NXP LPC1300 series, based on the Cortex™-M3 Rev2 core and designed for embedded 16 and 32-bit applications, operates at 70MHz and consumes approximately 200 µA per MHz, delivering advanced energy management a...
High-speed debugger interface supports ARM Cortex devices
Development support for microprocessor devices based on the ARM Cortex architecture is now available on the Abatron BDI3000 high-speed debugger from Computer Solutions. The new cores supported are the ARM Cortex-A8, such as the TI OMAP3430 family, and the ARM Cortex-M3, which includes the STM32 family, the LPC1700 and the whole of the Luminary Micro LM3S range. Both device families are supported by the JTAG interface on the BDI3000, and there is ...
Toshiba's entry-level, low-power ARM9 microcontroller
Toshiba Electronics Europe has added an entry-level device to its family of scalable, low-power ARM-based microcontrollers. The new TMPA913CHAXBG provides a cost-effective and low component count solution for industrial designs requiring high-speed USB connectivity and external memory management.
Quadros Supports MPC55xx Microcontroller Family
Updating its support for PowerPC processors, Quadros Systems has announced support for the MPC55xx series of 32-bit microcontrollers from Freescale Semiconductor. Developers can now combine the efficiency, flexibility and scalability of the RTXC software family with the low-cost, high performance MPC55xx family.
GStreamer plug-in from TI provides a uniform open source multimedia framework for OMAP35x processors and DaVinci technology
Minimizing the complexity of software integration with a uniform open source multimedia framework, Texas Instruments has announced a new GStreamer plug-in for developers designing with OMAP35x processors and digital media processors based on DaVinci technology. With the new GStreamer plug-in, embedded Linux developers can leverage an open source library to incorporate audio and video playback, audio and video synchronization and recording capabil...
Atmel Targets Automotive LIN Networking Applications with Introduction of AVR Microcontroller
Atmel has announced the availability of a new AVR 8-bit microcontroller for automotive LIN networking applications. The ATtiny87 is the second device of a LIN-dedicated low pin-count family specially optimized for cost-sensitive LIN slave applications.
NEC Electronics releases fully certified IEC software libraries
NEC Electronics Europe today announced the release of fully certified IEC software libraries for its 78K0 and 78K0R microcontroller families, enabling cost effective high performance solutions for industrial, appliance and motor control markets. The certified software libraries simplify the testing and end product approvals for compliance with the requirements of the IEC 60730-1/60335-1 safety standards, when used in microcontroller based applian...
NEC Electronics Maintains Leading Supplier Position for 32-bit Microcontrollers in 2008
NEC Electronics Corporation has announced that the company has retained the number one supplier ranking for 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) worldwide based on revenue in 2007 and 2008 as ranked by Gartner in its April 2009 report. In addition, the company has moved into the number one position for 32-bit automotive MCUs, and the number two position for overall MCUs, and the number two position for 8-bit MCUs.
NXP claims industry’s highest performance Cortex-M3 based microcontrollers
NXP has confirmed that the LPC1700 series is the industry’s highest performance Cortex-M3 microcontroller, based on results from the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC). The EEMBC results show that the LPC1700 executes application code on average 35% faster than the leading Cortex-M3 competitors when running at the same clock speeds. NXP’s performance advantage is even greater when the LPC1700 runs at higher clock speeds.