Freescale introduces ‘ultimate Ethernet connectivity solution’ for industrial applications
Offering combines ColdFire® microcontroller, complimentary Freescale MQX™ software and modular hardware platform to streamline development more
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Atmel Introduces AVR32 Microcontroller which Lowers Industry's Best Power Consumption by 63%
picoPower AVR32 AT32UC3L Microcontroller offers less than 0.48 mW/MHz Active and below 100 nA Sleep Mode, and has Embedded Capacitive Touch Peripheral and Event System that Eliminates Interrupt Handling and Guarantees Deterministic Response Time more
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Atmel and ARM Expand Strategic Relationship with Subscription License Agreement
Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), and ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMH)] today announced an extension to their strategic relationship with a new subscription license agreement. more
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Freescale’s MPC8377E PowerQUICC® II Pro device powers IEEE® 802.11N access point reference design
Freescale partners with Flextronics to deliver high-end Enterprise WLAN solution more
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Atmel Introduces New System-in-Package Solution for Automotive LIN Networking Applications
New Device Offers Immediate Cost Savings to Customer with Low Memory Requirements more
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Atmel Targets Automotive LIN Networking Applications with Introduction of New AVR Microcontroller
Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), announced today the availability of a new AVR® 8-bit microcontroller for automotive LIN networking applications. more
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Advanced MPC8535E processor adds to Freescale’s portfolio of energy-efficient PowerQUICC® III devices
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Atmel Takes Industry's Leading Position in 6-pin Microcontroller
Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), 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. more
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Microchip Technology Celebrates 5-Year Anniversary of PIC10F 8-bit Microcontrollers (MCUs)
Low-Cost 8-bit MCUs Available in SOT-23 and 2 mm x 3 mm DFN Packages; Continue to Open Doors to Innovative Uses for MCUs more
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Renesas R32C, 32-bit CISC Microcontroller with On-board Floating Point Unit is Now Available in Smaller 5.5 x 5.5 mm LGA Package
Renesas Technology America, Inc.today announced the availability of 64-pin QFP, 80-pin QFP and 100-pin 5.5mm x 5.5mm LGA package versions of its popular 32-bit CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) R32C/111 microcontroller. more
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Silicon Labs Expands MCU Portfolio with High Pin-Count, Touch-Sensing Device
C8051F700 Enables Robust, Cost-Effective Capacitive Touch Sensing more
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TI's OMAP? 3 technology used in M2M Solution's Homebox security gateway
M2M Solution´s Homebox security gateway allows users to view real-time video, monitor security/safety sensors and take appropriate action. more
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Freescale eases embedded development with “one-stop-shop" 32-bit industrial connectivity solution
Ultra-integrated ColdFire® microcontroller with on-chip USB, Ethernet, CAN and encryption ships with complimentary Freescale MQX™ RTOS more
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Freescale streamlines embedded design with complimentary real-time operating system and software stacks
Combination of Freescale MQX™ RTOS and silicon portfolio creates comprehensive source for hardware, software, tools and services more
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Actel's IGLOO and ProASIC3 FPGAs Voted Best All Around FPGAs
Actel Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTL) today announcedthat its IGLOO® FPGAs and ProASIC®3 FPGAs wereawarded Best All Around FPGAs in Penton Media´s Best Electronic DesignCompetition for 2008. more
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Renesas’ 120MHz SuperH Microcontroller Is a Lower Cost, Power-saving Solution for Implementing Fine-grained Control of Automotive Powertrains
The highly reliable SH72531 32-bit MCU provides 1.25Megabytes of on-chip flash, operates at up to +125°C, has only 176 pins, and consumes 350mW or less more
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ZILOG INTRODUCES ZBASE LIVE!™ WEB PORTAL
ZBASE Live! Enables Model Search and Download Capabilities for Consumer Electronics and Set-Top Boxes more
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NXP Named by Business Watch as One of the Top Ten Fast Reaction Companies of 2008
NXP Semiconductors, an independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, announced today that it has been named by Business Watch as one of the top ten fast reaction companies of 2008 out of the top fast 100 companies in China. more
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Freescale expands entry point for 8-bit USB control
Latest additions to JM controller family designed to reduce cost, provide greater design flexibility and standardize serial communications more
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Atmel's AT91SAM9G20 ARM-based Embedded MPU Supported by Latest Mainline Linux Kernel
AT91SAM9G20 Joins Entire AT91SAM9 Family on Linux v2.6.27 more
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Renesas Technology’s SH74504 and SH74513 Microcontrollers Have the Speed, Memory and Peripherals Needed for Creating Driver-Assist Safety Systems for New Cars and Trucks
Operating at 240MHz, the 32-bit devices can rapidly process large volumes of sensor data for implementing preventative safety´ features such as lane departure warning systems. more
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Microchip Technology Announces USB Software Stack With On-The-Go Support for 16-bit MCUs and Advanced Features for 8-, 16- and 32-bit MCUs.
Free USB-IF Certified Stack Enables OTG Functionality for 16-bit PIC24F MCUs, While Adding New Features for Microchip’s Complete 8-, 16- and 32-bit USB Portfolio more
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Atmel's AVR XMEGA wins EDN China Innovation Award
Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), received a leading product accolade in the prestigious Electronic Design News (EDN) China Innovation Awards 2008. more
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Microchip Technology Enhances Mid-range 8-bit PIC? Microcontroller Core
Enhanced Mid-range Core Includes Numerous Feature & Peripheral Improvements. more
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Atmel's AT91SAM9G20 ARM Embedded MPU Wins Award from Portable Design Community
Portable Design China Readers Voted the AT91SAM9G20 Best in Class for Performance and Performance & Functionality vs Cost. more
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Atmel's picoPower 8/16-bit XMEGA MCU Cuts Power and Processing Requirement by 98%
picoPower 8/16-bit XMEGA MCU virtually eliminates context switching and interrupt usage. more
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Renesas Technology Introduces 32MHz 16-Bit MCUs with On-Chip Flash Memory and Enhanced Peripherals for Automotive Body and Chassis Control Applications
MCUs in the M16C/5L and M16C/56 groups offer 60 percent faster speeds and more on-chip functions, providing improved performance and reduced system cost. more
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Microchip Technology Unveils Next-Generation, High-Speed In-Circuit Debugger for 8-, 16- and 32-bit PIC? Microcontrollers and dsPIC? DSCs
MPLAB® ICD 3 Provides Premium In-Circuit Debugging andProgramming at an Affordable Price. more
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Luminary Micro Ships 12,000 Kits in Just 24 Months
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Atmel Board of Directors Rejects Unsolicited Proposal from Microchip Technology and ON Semiconductor
Determines Proposal is Inadequate in Multiple Respects, Including Value, Conditionality and Complexity. Expects Continuing Progress on Transformation Plan to Provide Superior Value to Atmel Stockholders. more
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NXP World-Class 150mm Fab Available For Immediate Operations.
NXP Semiconductors Selects ATREG as its Agent in the Sale of their IPD Business and 150mm Fab in France more
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Renesas Technology’s SH77721 SH-NaviJ Series SoC is Ideal for Low-End to Mid-Range Car Navigation Systems
The processor achieves high performance at low cost, providing a tailoredset of on-chip functions, including a 3D graphics engine more
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Renesas Technology Unveils R8C/Lx Series MCUs with Feature-rich LCD capabilities, 1.8V to 5.5V operation support and versatile peripherals for enhanced user interfaces
Renesas Technology America, Inc. today announced a new generation of microcontrollers (MCUs) with an on-board LCD controller. The R8C/Lx Series is the latest addition to the Renesas R8C Family of MCUs, which incorporates the powerful 16-bit R8C CPU core. more
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NXP introduces industry’s fastest ARM Cortex-M3 Microcontrollers
Ultra-low power 100 MHz LPC1700 MCU runs Ethernet, CAN and USB simultaneously without bottlenecks. more
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Atmel's Secure 32-bit ARM System-On-Chip Microcontroller Awarded Common Criteria EAL4+ Certification
Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML),is proud to announce that the AT91S0100 and its derivatives have been granted Common Criteria certification EAL4+. This vulnerability assessment corresponds to today´s highest proven resistance against any security attack (AVA_VLA4). The AT91SO family is compliant with EMV and PCI PED standards. more
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NXP Semiconductors announces the fastest ARM Flash MCU series
NXP brings new 125 MHz ARM968 Flash microcontroller to market more
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NXP Semiconductors Introduces Industry’s Lowest Cost ARM9 with High Speed USB 2.0 OTG
Providing embedded designers a cost effective, power efficient single chip solution for USB Connectivity more
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Advanced PowerQUICC? III SoC from Freescale sets new standards for energy efficiency in embedded processing
Innovative energy pacing approach helps MPC8536E deliver extreme energy efficiency in high performance applications more
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Microchip Technology Offers New Capacitive Touch Demo Board; Simplifies Integration of Cap?Touch Interfaces Into 16-bit MCUs
PICDEM™ Touch Sense 2 Board Features mTouch™ Sensing Solution Software and 16-bit PIC24FJ256GB110 MCU With Integrated Capacitive-Touch CTMU Peripheral. The easy-to-use board comes with the updated, royalty-free mTouch™ Sensing Solution Software Development Kit (SDK) and is populated with a 16-bit PIC24FJ256GB110 microcontroller (MCU), which features an integrated Charge Time Measurement Unit (CTMU) peripheral for fast capacitive touch sensing. more
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Renesas Technology’s Upgraded SH7786 Dual-Core Processor for High-performance Multimedia Systems Delivers a Faster Data Transfer Rate using Less Power
Fabricated with a 65-nm process, the new SH7786 processor offers 1,920 MIPS performance and achieves 4.27Gbytes-per-second data transfers, enabling improved car navigation systems more
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Freescale adds higher performance 8-bit microcontroller to ultra-low-power QE family
QE32 Flexis™ MCUs balance power efficiency, performance and peripherals for battery-operated consumer and industrial applications more
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Bel Power Selects Microchip Technology’s MCP6291 Op Amp and 8-bit PIC? Microcontroller for new DC-to-DC Power Supply
Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced that Bel Power Inc. has selected its MCP6291 low-power, high-bandwidth operational amplifier (op amp) and PIC12F675 microcontroller (MCU) for its next-generation Power over Ethernet (PoE) half-brick DC-to-DC converter. more
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Renesas Technology’s New H8SX Family Devices Offer EXDMA for TFT Displays and Fast A/D and Analog Peripherals for Scanners and Office Automation Systems
New devices boost the analog signal-processing capability with an A/D converter that offers a 1 µs conversion speed, a 10-bit D/A converter and USB 2.0 for connectivity more
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Renesas Technology Introduces 36 New Models of R8C/Tiny Series 16-Bit MCUs with On-chip Flash Memory, Giving Automotive Engineers Many Design Choices
Renesas Technology America, Inc. today announced the addition of a total of 36 new 16-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) to the R8C/Tiny product line, thus giving automotive system engineers a choice of 72 devices optimized for in-vehicle body-control applications. more
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Renesas Technology Introduces 32-bit SuperH Microcontrollers with 1Mbyte On-Chip SRAM for Digital Audio Systems, Media Player Accessories and Graphical Display Applications
Renesas Technology America, Inc. today introduced two series of high-performance SuperH® 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) with 1Mbyte of on-chip SRAM. The 144MHz devices — the SH7262 and SH7264 series —are highly integrated and optimized for digital audio systems, MP3 media player accessories and graphical display systems, such as graphical dashboards for automobiles and industrial man-machine interfaces (MMI). more
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Atmel Announces ARM Cortex-M3 License and AT91SAM3 Flash MCU Family
Extends Atmel´s Market-leading AT91SAM Microcontrollers to Next-generation ARM Technology more
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Freescale CodeWarrior? tools move to Eclipse
Freescale joins the Eclipse Foundation, moves tools to open architecture software platform more
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New Freescale Flexis? AC microcontroller family optimized for large appliance market
Robust 5-volt EMC/EMI performance provides peace of mind for developers designing in ‘noisy´ environments more
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ENCIRQ DEVICESQL EMBEDDED DATABASE SDK, OPTIMIZED FOR BLACKFIN PROCESSORS FROM ANALOG DEVICES
Analog Devices, Inc. and Encirq today announced the availability of DeviceSQL, an embedded database SDK, optimized for developing applications on the ADSP-BF548 Blackfin processor from Analog Devices. more
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Atmel Introduces picoPower tinyAVR Microcontrollers for Battery-based and Cost-sensitive Applications
Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML),announced today two new low power 32-pin tinyAVR® microcontrollers, the ATtiny48 and ATtiny88 devices which have 4- and 8-Kbytes of Flash memory, respectively. These AVR® microcontrollers consume less than 240 uA at 1.8V and 1 MHz, and below 100 nA in power-down mode and are especially suited for portable and power sensitive systems such as remote control, accessories and small appliances. more
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Freescale and Altera partner to deliver world’s first soft ColdFire? cores on FPGAs
Popular V1 core available at no charge through IPextreme for Altera´s Cyclone® III FPGA; SOPC Builder-ready component backed by broad ecosystem more
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Renesas Technology Releases Low-priced E100 Emulator for Engineers Developing Embedded Systems with 8- to 32-Bit CISC Microcontrollers
Compact, easy-to-use, full-spec emulator with powerful debugging capabilities supports devices in M16C, H8SX, and other CISC MCU families more
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Renesas Technology Develops Future 32-bit RX600 Series CISC MCUs, Based on Renesas’ Next-Generation ‘RX’ Architecture
TOKYO, May 20, 2008——Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the development of the RX600 Series microcontrollers (MCUs), re-defining performance capabilities of CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer)*1 based MCUs. The new devices, scheduled for sample shipment in the second quarter of 2009, will be the first 32-bit products to incorporate the next-generation ‘RX’ CPU architecture and offer CPU performance of up to 200MHz, with the industry’s fastest single-cycle flash access capability (100MHz). more
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Freescale microcontroller expands 8-bit headroom for industrial and automotive designers
Highly integrated S08 MCU offers embedded CAN, EEPROM and on-chip emulation/debug development tools more
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Atmel's AVR ONE! High-End Development Tool Improves Performance and Provides Significant Development Cost Savings for 8- and 32-bit Microcontrollers
San Jose, CA, April 7, 2008…Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), announced today its AVR® ONE! high-end debugger for AVR® and AVR32 microcontrollers. Atmel is committed to offer quality development tools at an affordable price. One unique high-end on-chip debugging platform for all AVR and AVR32 devices: this is AVR ONE! available at US$599 only while similar tools usually cost thousands of dollars. The new debug tool will help customers to speed up their design and get to the market faster. more
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Freescale ColdFire? LCD devices enable developers to “add touch” to industrial HMI applications
MCF5227x processors with on-chip LCD and touch-screen modules expand control options and help reduce system cost and time to market more
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Freescale i.MX27 IP camera reference design delivers high resolution H.264 compression technology
Customizable, royalty-free offering helps to dramatically reduce design cycles and time-to-market more
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Freescale offers ‘suite’ deal to customers with new CodeWarriorTM packaging
CodeWarrior tool suites ease migration across Freescale architectures delivering on the promise of the Controller Continuum more
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AMCC White Paper: Designing Enterprise-Class Wireless Access Points and Residential Gateways
Designing Enterprise-Class Wireless Access Points and Residential Gateways: Meeting the Price, Performance, and Power Challenges of 802.11n with the PowerPC 405EX. more
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STMicroelectronics Achieves Highest Memory Density for ARM9 Standard MCUs, Delivering Pin- and Function Compatibility with Embedded Flash of 288 Kbytes to 2.1 Mbytes
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Freescale expands 8-bit control options for large consumer appliance applications
S08AC60/48/32 MCUs designed to reduce cost and board space and improve energy efficiency and system integrity of ‘white-goods´ more
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NXP Semiconductors introduces four new 32-bit ARM9 microcontrollers
LPC3200 family brings high-performance LCD, Ethernet and USB On-The-Go to the masses more
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Atmel Introduces AVR MCUs with Unique Combination of USB, Battery Charging and Analog Features
Beijing, China, and San Jose, CA, March 7, 2008 . . .Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML ),announced today new AVR® microcontrollers combining USB controller and high performance analog features. The ATmega16U4 and ATmega32U4 reduce system cost in battery powered devices such as gaming accessories. more
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Silicon Laboratories Expands Family of Small Form Factor MCUS with EPROM
-- C8051T630 Family Provides Increased Design Flexibility -- more
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Atmel Introduces AVR MCUs with Unique Combination of USB, Battery Charging and Analog Features
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Atmel Introduces an AVR-based 2.4 GHz Wireless Evaluation and Development Platform at $99
The kit allows an easy evaluation of short range wireless connectivity with IEEE802.15.4, ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, etc. more
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Freescale adds IEEE? 1588 clock synchronization to ColdFire? evaluation platform
Comprehensive evaluation platform offers cost-effective solution for real-time Ethernet applications requiring precision timing more
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Freescale helps consumer and industrial developers get up and running quickly with USB connectivity
Flexis™ JM controller family, backed by complimentary software and rich ecosystem, offers unprecedented 8- to 32-bit compatibility and ease of use more
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STMicroelectronics Raises the Bar with New 8-bit Microcontroller Platform
Unsurpassed combination of features aims to redefine traditional 8-bit MCU market more
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Silicon Labs Introduces Industry's Lowest Voltage MCUs
--C8051F9xx Doubles Battery Life for Battery-Powered Products-- more
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Micro Digital Announces GoFast for IAR EWARM
Micro Digital Inc. is pleased to announce that the GoFast floating point library has been ported to the IAR EWARM tool suite for the ARM processor family. more
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Renesas' Low-cost R8C/25-based Motor Control Reference Platform Accelerates the Design
Renesas Technology America, Inc. today announced the R8C/25-based BLDC (brushless DC) Motor Control Reference Platform (MCRP) more
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Freescale 8-bit microcontroller family grows to address entry-level mass market
Latest additions to KA MCU family designed to enhance integration and performance for consumer and industrial applications more
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Freescale expands S08 microcontroller family
8-bit QA4 and QA2 devices designed to reduce cost, board space and power consumption for designers looking to do more for less more
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Freescale stretches boundaries of energy efficiency with ultra-low-power 8-bit microcontrollers
Power-sipping MCUs designed to deliver less than 300 nanoamps stop currents for personal medical and portable devices more
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Luminary Micro's new Brushless DC (BLDC) Stellaris? Reference Design Kit provides Networked Motion Control OEMs with a Time-to-Production Edge
Complete Kit Shows Unprecedented Integration of Brushless DC Motion Control and Industrial Networking more
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