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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Sustenance of conducive business environment for the textile industry is the need of hour with respect to cotton policies, said Mr. S Dinakaran, Chairman of The Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA). SIMA Chief has said that after ...
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MRAM/STTMRAM and PCM will lead the Emerging Non-Volatile Memory (ENVM) market, reaching a combined $1.6bn by 2018, says a report from analysts Yole Developpement. "By 2018, MRAM/STTMRAM and PCM will surely be the top two ENVM on the ...
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A programmable controller for LED lighting combines state machines for autonomous current control with the capability of DALI network support and flexibility in topology. The new STLUX385 digital lighting controller IC from ...
Tags: LED lighting, STMicroelectronics, SSL-Targeted Microcontroller, SIL
Eight IC product types will grow more than the market this year, says IC Insights, eleven product types will grow less than the market and ten product types will decline. Top of the pops are tablet MPUs and cellphone application MPUs ...
"HomePlug AV is used in set-top boxes in Europe and is starting in the US," Greenvity CEO Hung Nguyen. "Any lighting system needs to be interoperable with set-top boxes. HomePlug Green PHY co-exists and inter-operates with HomePlug AV." ...
Tags: HomePlug AV, set-top boxes, US
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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Microchip has introduced a digitally-controlled analogue DC-DC converter chip for power converters between 50 and 150W, including high current point-of-load converters. Called MCP19111, both microprocessor and analogue blocks are on the ...
The market for semiconductors used in power supplies is forecast to grow by 6.5% in 2013, following a largely flat market for power supplies in 2012, says market analyst IMS Research. Strongest growth is predicted for MPU/MCU/DSP/DSC ...
Dutch start-up Anagear has released a power management IC (PMIC) for wireless sensor nodes, that consumes an average of 600nA, said the firm. Typically, wireless sensor nodes have a microcontroller that spends most of its time in sleep, ...
32-bit performance at 8-bit prices is the sales pitch for Infineon’s ARM Cortex M0-based family of industrial controllers called XMC1000 which begin sampling in March. ‘With the XMC1000, Infineon is the first semiconductor ...
Wired telecom is the hot market this year,says IC Insights followed by wireless,consumer,and automotive. The fastest growing chip markets 2012 are: 1.Wired Telecoms-app specific analogue 2.Wired telecom-special purpose logic/MPR ...
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MBB95850/860/870 series is based on 8-bit microcontroller F2MC-New8FX Family Fujitsu Semiconductor Asia has launched new MBB95850/860/870 series MCU with in-built dual FLASH capacitive touch interface. The new series includes two 24-pin ...
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Freescale Semiconductor is demonstrated a dual nework ZigBee controller based on its Kinetis ARM Cortex-M4 based microcontroller. Multiple ZigBee networks may exist simultaneously in a home or building.A dual-network device can connect ...
Tags: Freescale Shows Arm, ARM Cortex-M4
Freescale Semiconductor (FSL) has entered into a partnership with First Automobile Works (FAW), a China-based automotive OEMs, to form a new joint automotive lab 'FAW-Freescale'. The new joint automotive lab will be a shared research and ...
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