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Zytronic has announced a next-generation controller architecture for its PCT™ based touch sensor products. The new architecture increases speed and accuracy, streamlines system integration, saves 55% of PCB space, and provides a platform for innovative touch features that add extra value to Human-Machine Interface (HMI) applications.

Ian Crosby, Sales and Marketing Director at Zytronic, looks at how the latest developments make consideration of touch controller technology a vital element in designing and integrating touchscreen solutions into modern applications.

Texas Instruments has introduced today a new eight-channel sequencer and monitor with non-volatile error logging. The device supports the latest generation microprocessors, ASICs and DSPs, to improve system reliability and ease sequencing on boards with multiple points of load. The sequencer operates from a 3.3-V supply and does not require external memory or a clock, to help reduce board space in a variety of equipment, including telecommunicati...

Developers of embedded industrial, medical and consumer designs demand flexible architectures to support multiple industry-specific peripherals and interfaces. To address the evolving needs of these market spaces, Texas Instruments Incorporated today announced four new Sitara™ ARM9 microprocessors (MPUs) and evaluation modules (EVMs) packed with a plethora of integrated connectivity options.

Developers can now benefit from enhanced system response time, improved boot times and increased battery life with two new TI Sitara microprocessor units (MPUs), the AM3715 and AM3703 processors, with 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8. Introduced today by Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN), these MPUs are appropriate for a wide variety of applications, such as portable data terminals, portable medical equipment, home and building automation, naviga...

Embedded software programming comprises the majority of the product development cycle. Significantly reducing learning curves and accelerating development time in the embedded design process, Texas Instruments Incorporated has announced its free StarterWare software packages, offering user-friendly, production-ready software for Sitara 32-bit ARM microprocessor C6000 digital signal processor (DSP) and DSP + ARM developers. StarterWare provides ap...

Further simplifying embedded software development, Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced significant upgrades to its industry-leading Code Composer Studio integrated development environment based on the Eclipse open source software framework. Featuring major user interface improvements that ease development and a 5x smaller installation package that speeds setup, Code Composer Studio IDE v5 now runs on Windows and Linux operating environm...

Innovators, engineers, developers and hobbyists can now effortlessly create state-of-the-art products with the flexible, user-friendly HawkBoard, an open source embedded processor development board. This low-cost development board provides processing power through a robust ARM® and digital signal processor (DSP) and has multiple expansion and interface options to allow users to create end-use applications such as portable test and measurement...

IBM, Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., GLOBALFOUNDRIES and STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) said today that the four companies are collaborating to synchronize semiconductor manufacturing facilities for the production of advanced chips based on 28nm process jointly developed by IBM Technology Alliance.

STMicroelectronics and LifeNexus, the developer of the iChip and Personal Health Card, today announced that STMicroelectronics will produce the iChip microprocessor for the LifeNexus Personal Health Card. The Personal Health Card is the first multi-purpose electronic health card utilizing the embedded iChip for securely maintaining an individual’s personal health record, with a payment card option on the same card.