Renesas Electronics is offering customers of its RX microcontrollers a free of-charge design qualification service for commercial software up to the value of €20,000. The programme supports a range of middleware, including operating ...
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Renesas will decide whether to sell its mobile chip division during the course of this year, says the company. Selling a mobile chip division is easier said than done. First of all no sane person wants to get into a market where ...
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Five optical component manufacturers including LAPIS Semiconductor Co Ltd, Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Oclaro Inc, Renesas Electronics Corp and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd have announced the release of new common specifications for ...
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Fortronic is hosting its Led & Lighting Design event on 26 March, at the Williams F1 Conference Centre in Oxford. The day starts with Registration (8-45 to 10-00) and then the Morning Plenary Session, which will comprise short technical ...
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Intersil has joined with Renesas Electronics to develop a sensor signal conditioning reference design for thermocouple, pressure and strain gauges. The design incorporates two boards - an Intersil board with analogue front-end chips ...
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ARM is promising close to 70% processor power savings with a new chip design called Big.Little, and mobile devices on display at the Mobile World Congress provided the first glimpse of how the technology works. The concept of Big.Little ...
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ARM's big.LITTLE processing combo, which pairs a Cortex A-15 with an A-7, has been adopted by five users - Renesas, Samsung, CSR, Fujitsu and MediaTek, ARM announced at MWC today. ARM says the technology saves up to 70% of processor ...
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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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With 86% of the 47 million LTE cellphone modems shipped last year, Qualcomm will certainly continue its domination in 2013, says Forward Concepts. "Samsung followed with 9% of the shipments, while tiny GCT Semiconductor managed to grab 3% ...
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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Renesas Electronics continues to feel the pressure from the market and is predicting a larger than expected loss for the year ending March 31, in a revised financial forecast. The Japanese chip maker now forecasts a full year loss of Yen ...
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Renesas Electronics has doubled the on-chip memory in its RX600 microcontrollers for networking equipment applications. The RX63N/RX631 product groups have up to 256kbyte embedded RAM and 2Mbyte flash. “The new RX63N/RX631 MCUs ...
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MSC Gleichmann will be running a one-day workshop covering hardware and software design of graphical LCD user interfaces in embedded applications. It will focus on the Renesas 32-bit RX-series microcontroller development environment and ...
The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) intends to create a standard method to evaluate the energy efficiency of ultra-low power(ULP) microcontrollers. To date, the industry has lacked a common method to test, validate, ...
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Renesas Electronics Europe has selected the verification tool suite of Coveritas for its automotive microcontrollers and systems-on-chip (SoC) software testing and verification. UK-start Coveritas only launched its first product in April ...
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