Fujitsu promises that although the new business laptops in its Lifebook E Line come in screen sizes from 13.3 inches to 15.6 inches, all will use the same standard components, including the main board, drives for the modular expansion bay, ...
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XMOS has designed a multicore microcontroller which will cost under $3 in 100 unit quanities. The xCORE XS1-L4-64 integrates four 32-bit logical processor cores producing 400MIPS performance. “This is the price point of other ...
Tags: XMOS, multicore microcontroller, logical processor cores
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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Kontron has said it will support the two flavours of the CompactPCI interface, these are CompactPCI Serial and CompactPCI Serial Mesh. CompactPCI Serial (CPCI-S.0) is for implementation in 3U form factors with PCIe, GbE, USB and SATA ...
Tags: CompactPCI interface, CompactPCI Serial, wireless communication
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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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, ...
Tags: Renesas Electronics, microcontrollers, rocess technology
Oracle released new Java security updates on Tuesday and announced plans to accelerate the release of future Java patches following recent attacks that have infected computers with malware by exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in Java ...
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 ...
Tags: microcontroller, measurement systems, switching solutions
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 ...
Photovoltaic inverter design is now seen as the crucial element in solar power development, writes James Turner, and he discusses some of the challenges that can shape PV inverter design. Over the last few years the photovoltaic (PV) ...
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 ...
Atmel says it is shipping production quantities of the its SAMA5D3 series microprocessor, which is based on the ARM Cortex-A5 core with an on-chip floating point unit. The SAMA5D3 microprocessors are fabbed on a 65nm process technology ...
Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, today announced the beta release of version 6.50 of Panda Cloud Office Protection Advanced, the first cloud-based endpoint security solution with protection for Exchange Server. Main new ...
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Computer-on-Modules (COMs) show the way to faster Freescale QorIQ processor-based design without need for costly and time-consuming full-custom design, writes Gerhard Szczuka, product manager for Computer-on-Modules at Kontron Europe. The ...
Tags: Computer-on-Modules, processors, data-intensive applications
The Phoenix-RTOS has been ported to EnSilica’s eSi-RISC family of soft processor cores providing an embedded RTOS capable of utilising eSi-RISC’s hardware MMU with memory protection and security features such as data execution ...