Micros

NEC Electronics has introduced what it says is the world’s first microcontroller (MCU) with a constant high-current driver (HCD). The new HCD/LED MCU can be used in lighting applications that use more than one LED, in industrial control applications featuring stepping motor and solenoid drives, and in switching-mode power supplies. Developed in collaboration with leading LED solutions supplier Future Lighting Solutions (a division of Future Ele...

Green Hills Software, Inc. and Microchip Technology Inc., have announced that Green Hills Software’s integrated development environment, MULTI, is now available for Microchip’s 16-bit PIC24 microcontroller (MCU) and dsPIC digital signal controller (DSC) families.

NEC Electronics Corporation has announced the addition of twelve new 32-bit devices with complete USB connectivity functionality on a single chip. The new 32-bit V850ES/Jx3 MCUs execute USB 2.0 data transfers at high speeds up to 12 megabits per second (Mbps) and enable rapid development of USB connectivity in printers that support direct image transfers from digital cameras, in audio systems that support music data transfers via USB memory, and ...

Renesas Technology Corp has announced a total of eight new product versions of the SH7262 and SH7264 high-performance 32-bit microcontrollers with 1 Mbyte of on-chip SRAM for digital audio and graphical dashboard applications. Sample shipments will begin in August 2008 in Japan.

Texas Instruments has announced the release of Code Composer Essentials (CCEssentials) v3. CCEssentials v3 for MSP430 provides major upgrades designed to enhance performance, emulation and ease-of-use, all at a very low cost. Leveraging the design flexibility and interoperability enabled by the Eclipse open source platform, designers can easily integrate plug-ins for a highly customized, interoperable and flexible IDE.

Microchip's 12-member PIC24FJ256GB1 microcontroller (MCU) family is said to be the lowest power (2.6 µA standby current) large-memory (up to 256 KB Flash and 16 KB RAM) 16-bit USB microcontroller family on the market. The PIC24FJ256GB1 family integrates USB 2.0 device, embedded-host, dual-role and On-the-Go (OTG) functionality, making it cost effective and easy to add advanced USB features to embedded designs. Microchip also provides complete so...

IAR Systems has announced the launch of IAR KickStart Kit for ColdFire. The starter kit provides everything that a developer needs to begin developing a system on a Freescale ColdFire microcontroller, straight from the box. At the same time IAR Embedded Workbench for ColdFire is being upgraded to Version 1.20.

Silicon Laboratories has announced the expansion of its small form factor microcontrollers (MCUs) with the C8051T630 family of 8-bit MCUs. Pin-for-pin compatible with Silicon Labs’ C8051F330 family, the T630 devices are low-cost, feature-rich, EPROM-based MCUs that give customers the ability to easily interchange the two MCU families for a given product platform.

Renesas Technology Europe has announced details of the RS45C, a secure MCU for smart cards requiring a high level of security such as ID, banking and credit cards. The RS45C is built around the RS-4 high-performance 16-bit CPU core and integrates 36 Kbytes of electrically erasable and programmable read-only memory (EEPROM).

Renesas Technology Europe has introduced the SH7142F microcontroller line-up that is said to be ideal for the next generation of industrial inverters. This device also marks an industry first in terms of connectivity. It is the first SuperH Controller to feature two controller area network (CAN) modules. The device integrates pin to pin and software compatible 256Kbyte and 512kbyte versions with super-fast MONOS Flash. MONOS flash supports full...