New automotive technologies that go beyond touchscreens, satellite radio, and voice-activated GPS commands are being tested and improved, and will soon begin to appear in many more new car models, resulting in solid growth for the ...
Tags: Emerging Technologies, Strong Opportunity, Automotive ICs
The third-party tools and software ecosystem is expanding for Atmel's ARM Cortex-A5-based SAMA5D3 microcontrollers. A5 is ARM's baby A-series-compatible core, designed as an up-grade from the ARM926 and ARM1176 with better mW/MHz than ...
Tags: software ecosystem, ARM, microcontroller
Silicon Labs has unveiled power-aware software tools for its Precision32 microcontrollers, which are based around ARM Cortex-M3 cores. Called Power Estimator, and working with the firm's integrated development environment (IDE), "the tool ...
Infineon has released samples of its ARM Cortex-M0 based LED lighting microcontroller family. Included in the family, called XMC1000, are MCUs that include a peripheral, the brightness and colour control unit (BCCU), that can dim and ...
Tags: Infineon, ARM Cortex-M0, LED lighting microcontroller family
At the opening ceremony of this year’s CeBit trade show, Tom Enders, CEO, EADS, presented a futuristic Mars Rover, which EADS subsidiary Astrium is working on with the European Space Agency (ESA). However, the main point he made was ...
Tags: EADS, CEO, Greater Aerospace Innovation
ARM's latest version of the Keil development kit for processor-based microcontroller applications includes CMSIS-RTOS based middleware, ETB and MTB trace, CMSIS-DAP debug support and code completion with dynamic syntax checker in the source ...
Tags: ARM, microcontroller application, middleware
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
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 ...
Tags: MRAM/STTMRAM, PCM, Non-Volatile Memory
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
ARM and STMicroelectronics have teamed up with MathWorks to offer MATLAB and Simulink embedded design support for ARM Cortex-M processor-based systems. The aim of the partnership is to allow software developers to create their algorithms ...
Tags: ARM, ST, microcontrollers
Microchip has released pin and function-compatible digital signal controllers and 16bit microcontrollers, processing at 70Mips. From the dsPIC33E and PIC24E families, "Microchip is simplifying migration with flash ranging from 32 to ...
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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 ...
Tags: Renesas Electronics, on-chip memory, RX600 microcontrollers
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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RS Components has signed a global franchise deal with microcontroller supplier, Energy Micro. As a result RS Components will stock Energy Micro's range of ARM Cortex-based microcontrollers, development kits, starter kits and tools in ...
Tags: RS Components, microcontroller, Energy Micro
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 ...
Tags: Renesas Electronics Europe, Coveritas, automotive microcontrollers