XMOS has added an ADC to its multicore processors for industrial applications, such as sensors, actuators and motor controllers. The Bristol-based company will release 6, 8, 10, 12 and 16-core microcontrollers with ADCs, calling this the ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, sensors
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) introduced three new DC/DC LED drivers that simplify white color tuning for high-color rendering and ultra-low dimming in professional-grade indoor and outdoor LED lighting applications. The TPS92660 ...
Tags: TI LED, LED Drivers
Open-source board maker BeagleBoard.org has introduced a bare-bones PC starting at $45, bringing it closer to the popular Raspberry Pi, which offers basic models for $25 and $35. The $45 BeagleBoard Black has no casing and comes in the ...
Driven by the increasing demand for microchip designs UK based semiconductor and software design company ARM Holdings has reported 28% increase in revenue for the first quarter of 2013 to £170.3m from £132.5m it reported ...
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NXP Semiconductors reported first quarter revenues of $1.085bn which is 11% up on this quarter last year. The company’s strongest business continues to be the high performance mixed signal (HPMS) IC business which includes ...
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ARM, the Cambridge-based chip designer, has posted higher than expected first quarter financial results, citing strong demand for its new chip design in tablets and smartphones for the growth. The firm posted first quarter revenues of ...
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Renesas has introduced fast waking 32bit microcontrollers made on low power zero wait state flash process. Called RX111, the devices include USB 2.0 support for host, device, on-the-go (OTG), and battery charging. There are multiple ...
Tags: Renesas, Flash Process
Marvell and Daintree Networks will partner to help drive ZigBee-enabled, intelligent SSL products into the commercial sector, and Marvell also announced that it is supplying the driver IC for Samsung Electronics LED retrofit lamps. ...
Texas Instruments has expanded the on-chip memory of the MSP430 Value Line microcontroller series with up to 56kB flash and up to 4kB SRAM. The supplier believe the low cost microcontroller is now suitable for near field communications ...
Microchip has introduced the PIC24F 'KM' family with "a new level of integrated analogue functionality", said the firm, "including a 12bit ADC with threshold detection, 8bit DACs for control loops, precision comparator references, and ...
Tags: 16bit PICs, Fewer Pins, Consumer Electronics
Renesas Electronics has appointed a new distributor in Russia. PT Electronics is based in St. Petersburg and has grown to become one of the top five electronic component distributors in the region since it was founded in 1992. Renesas ...
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Toshiba has announced its first ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller with DSP extensions, a floating point unit (FPU) and a programmable servo/sequencer controller (PSC). The TMPM4440 microcontrollers are available with 768kbyte or 1024kbyte of ...
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Element14 has introduced a website to support the selection of software tools and BoosterPacks for the Texas Instruments MSP430 Value Line, C2000 and Stellaris microcontrollers. Dubbed TI LaunchPad, the microsite provides access to ...
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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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Chip makers STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments have announced partnerships with Swedish vendor Thingsquare, which has developed a tiny operating system designed to make it easier to connect a broad variety of things, from street ...
Tags: Internet, Chip makers, operating system