Freescale Semiconductor CEO Gregg Lowe is pushing forward a major restructuring of the loss-making chip firm. "We conducted a thorough and extensive review of all our businesses,markets and regions during my first three months,"said Lowe. ...
Tags: Freescale, MCU, restructure
Steve Laub CEO of Atmel believes that given the increasing proliferation of smart devices throughout the world and the role microcontrollers play in it the company's day has come. If you subscribe to the idea of intelligent devices ...
Polycom plans to break down one more set of barriers to videoconferencing early next year with a cloud-based software platform that can set up sessions with anyone who uses Facebook,Skype,or certain other online services. The ...
Tags: Polycom, cloud-based software platform, RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite
Texas Instruments has reduced the entry price for ARM Cortex-M4F microcontroller design with its Stellaris LM4F120 LaunchPad evaluation kit,costing$5. With integrated analogue and floating point capabilties,the MCU will be used for ...
Tags: Texas Instruments, ARM Cortex, MCU, Electronic
Atmel has launched an ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller that consumes 90µA/MHz in active mode,claiming this to be the lowest yet. Called the SAM4L family,"the devices are the most efficient MCUs in the market today,achieving up to 28 ...
Tags: Atmel, ARM Cortex-M4, SAM4L-EK, LCD
Based on a low-power Renesas RL78/I1a microcontroller, the DALI Demo Kit uses a wireless mesh network for SSL control and will be available from Virtual Extension in Q4. Renesas Electronics Europe and Virtual Extension are showcasing a ...
Tags: led controller
Joerg Strughold,v-p of EMEA sales at Atmel tells Electronics Weekly industrial applications continue to be largest end market,followed by smartphones and tablets in the consumer market Describe your company's business in two sentences. ...
Tags: EMEA, RF, technology, application
Digital Core Design,Poland-based processor core design house,has been awarded for its design of"the world's fastest 8051 CPU". Bytom-based DCD was recognised for the DQ80251 processor in the Marka Slaskie-Silesia ...
For small petrol engines,Freescale has introduced an analogue mop-up chip to fire the ignition,pump the fuel injection,and read sensors in engine management systems. "Small engine makers are increasingly deploying electronic engine ...
Everyone's talking about energy harvesting–but what exactly is it?The term is often used as a paraphrase for the whole range of low-power applications,yet the"harvesters"themselves are only one part of a larger system,writes Ingo ...
Tags: Electrical&Electronics, Energy Harvesting, battery, MEC, IPS
Free design tools and low cost board prototyping means development kits do not necessarily have to be the inevitable starting point for many designs,writes Mark Cundle,head of technical marketing at RS Components. Experience tells us that ...
Texas Instruments demonstrated a ZigBee Light Link implementation at Computex Taipei and announced Golden Unit status,while Atmel announced Golden Unit compliance and an evaluation kit. The ZigBee Light Link standard promises to offer ...
Xylobands(TM)LED Wristbands Powered by Silicon Labs Microcontrollers and Wireless ICs Get Crowds Rocking at Coldplay Concerts AUSTIN,Texas,Jun 04,2012(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nothing lights up a rock arena quite like a Coldplay audience with tens ...
Tags: Xylobands, LED Wristbands, Silicon Labs Microcontrollers, Wireless ICs
Renesas is going fab-lite.It is putting out its MCU production on 40nm to TSMC. Commnenting on the move,Europe's leading semiconductor analyst,Malcolm Penn CEO of Future Horizons said:"Another small step towards global domination for ...
Tags: Europe, Renesas, MCU, TSMC, semiconductor, Future Horizons
MIPS is taking ARM's Cortex-A series and Cortex-M4 head-on with three microprocessor cores:proAptive,interAptive and microAptive. "We have done a large amount of development across our entire portfolio,"MIPS product director Mark ...
Tags: MIPS, ARM Cortex, cores, ProAptive