Asustek has announced it will soon begin U.S. shipments of an all-in-one PC that can be an Android 4.1 tablet or a fully functional desktop running Windows 8 when attached to a docking station. The Transformer AiO will become available ...
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IAR Systems has announced a starter kit for developing smart meters, weighing scales and other applications needing precision measurement. The kit is centred around a TMPM061FWFG microcontroller which has an analogue front-end (AFE), ...
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The third-party tools and software ecosystem is expanding for Atmel's ARM Cortex-A5-based SAMA5D3 microcontrollers. A5 is ARM's baby A-series-compatible core, designed as an up-grade from the ARM926 and ARM1176 with better mW/MHz than ...
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Silicon Labs has unveiled power-aware software tools for its Precision32 microcontrollers, which are based around ARM Cortex-M3 cores. Called Power Estimator, and working with the firm's integrated development environment (IDE), "the tool ...
Infineon has released samples of its ARM Cortex-M0 based LED lighting microcontroller family. Included in the family, called XMC1000, are MCUs that include a peripheral, the brightness and colour control unit (BCCU), that can dim and ...
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Congatec has ported the Windows Embedded Compact 7 operating system to a Qseven embedded module based on the Freescale i.MX6 ARM Cortex-A9 processor. Windows Embedded Compact 7 (WEC7) is the latest generation of Windows CE operating ...
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Freescale Semiconductor has signed a major new ARM license agreement which will cover the Cambridge firm’s most advanced processor cores. Freescale has taken a multiyear subscription license with ARM beginning with the ARM ...
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ARM's next steps in the mbed open source embedded design project is a new SDK released under a permissive open source licence. It has also created an HDK for creating low-cost development boards. The mbed platform was created to prototype ...
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Renesas Electronics has given details of its plans for the RX family of microcontrollers, which include its lowest power, lowest cost 32-bit MCU. The RX100 series microcontrollers are based on a 130nm process technology and run at 32MHz, ...
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Altera has introduced an FPGA-based reference design for smart grid substation automation equipment. Developed jointly with wireless networks firm Flexibilis Oy, the IEC 62439-3-compliant reference design includes Flexibilis Redundant ...
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Texas Instruments has developed an ARM Cortex-M0 that can sleep on zero power and wake in 400ns, intended to run on harvested power. Key to the chip is ferroelectric RAM (FRAM) non-volatile logic (NVL), where the state of flip-flops is ...
The IEEE ISSCC (International Solid State Circuits Conference), which runs this year from February 17-21 in San Francisco, is an important gathering for the electronic engineering industry. It is the world's show case for the best in ...
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ST-Ericsson has cranked its forthcoming smartphone processor up to 3GHz. The quad-core NovaThor L8580 will include a PowerVR graphics processor and an LTE modem with support VoLTE (Voice over LTE) and next-generation LTE technology carrier ...
An aid to selecting a microcontroller with high-resolution analogue/digital converters for measurement systems and metering designs by Ralf Hickl The quality of analogue peripherals on microcontrollers has risen constantly. It allows for ...
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Processors are geared towards entry and mid level smartphone segments. Qualcomm has released the Snapdragon 400 and Snapdragon 200 processors for the mid-tier and entry level smartphone segments. The Snapdragon 400 processors with CPU ...
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