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NEC Electronics today introduced two new 8-bit All Flash general-purpose microcontrollers (MCUs) that can be used in control applications such as LED (Light Emitting Diode) lighting, home electric cookers and chargers. The new devices combine NEC Electronics’ All Flash 78K0/KB2 microcontrollers with constant high current drivers in a single package. The part numbers differ according to their Flash memory capacity; μPD78F8024 offers 8 kilob...

Renesas Technology has added 16Kbyte Flash versions to its popular line-up of low pin count, SH/Tiny Flash microcontrollers. The lower memory versions provide a more flexible and cost effective solution with many advantages over DSPs. With their performance and small memory sizes, these devices are ideal to perform both real-time control and DSP functions.

To quickly and efficiently develop reliable, convenient and low-cost medical devices, engineers require microcontrollers (MCUs) that provide low power consumption, high performance and targeted peripheral integration. Addressing this need, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today announced the new MSP430FG47x ultra-low power MCU series.

Atmel Corporation announced today the introduction of a new AVR32 microcontroller with high speed communication. Featuring Atmel’s 91 DMIPS AVR32 CPU, the AT32UC3A3 includes Hi-Speed USB interface with On-The-Go, a dual high speed SD/MMC card interface plus SDRAM and NAND flash interface with SLC and MLC, ECC. It is targeted to the rapidly growing digital media solutions and audio player docking station markets, where Atmel has seen conside...

NEC Electronics has unveiled the V850E2M microcontroller unit (MCU) featuring dual-core for eco-friendly performance and high reliability in automotive and industrial automation systems. An extension of the company’s V850 and V850E architectures, the new 32-bit core is highly scalable to compete with 16- and 32-bit devices, and provides increased functionality while lowering energy requirements and increasing development efficiency.

Maxim has introduced the MAXQ1850, a high-performance 32-bit RISC microcontroller for the financial terminal market. The MAXQ1850 integrates security supervisory features, advanced encryption acceleration, and 8KB of nonvolatile memory (NV SRAM) around a 32-bit MAXQ microcontroller core. The microcontroller also has the lowest pin count and smallest footprint available for applications that require a high level of physical and logical security.

Atmel Corporation announced today its new picoPower™ AVR® ATtiny10, with 1K bytes of programmable Flash memory, and 32 bytes of internal SRAM. With up to 12 MIPS of processing throughput, 8-bit A/D converter, analog comparator, and a 16-bit timer with PWM, this 6-pin device is a perfect single-chip solution for size and cost constrained high volume consumer applications.

Fujitsu Microelectronics has expanded its line-up of low pin count microcontrollers with three new series in its F2MC-8FX family of high-performance 8-bit microcontrollers featuring 8, 16, and 20 pins. The MB95260H, MB95270H and MB95280H series contain embedded dual-operation flash memory and support E2PROM emulation, which allows a reduction in system cost, as E2PROM does not need to be connected to the microcontroller.

NEC Electronics has announced the release of the 78K Primer Kit. This learning tool introduces NEC Electronics’ industry-leading 78K microcontroller family and is designed to help and educate newcomers to get started quickly and easily both with 78K0 8-bit and the 78K0R 16-bit microcontrollers. The 78K Primer Kit is designed for engineers and students who are not yet familiar with NEC Electronics’ 78K microcontrollers. The kit holds hardware ...

Maxim has introduced the newest member of its MAXQ RISC microcontroller product line: the MAXQ7670 system-on-chip (SoC), mixed-signal microcontroller for sensor applications. A highly sensitive, cost-effective automotive microcontroller for low-amplitude signals, the MAXQ7670 delivers the lowest-cost, most complete system solution for measuring signals in the microvolt range from sensors with differential outputs, such as anisotropic magnetoresi...