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
A company claims it has a module which will speed up the transfer of embedded design based on TI's Beaglebone to production. Based on the Texas Instruments Sitara AM335x,the TRITON-TX48 from Direct Insight offers ARM Cortex-A8 performance ...
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The ARM Cortex-A15 will be out in handsets by the end of the year,says Laurence Bryant,director of ARM's mobile solutions group. Asked if the problems with 28nm supply would affect that aspiration,Bryant replied:"From what I hear,there ...
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Gerhard Edi, CEO of Congatec talks to Electronics Weekly about the impact ARM is having on the Intel dominated embedded processor market. As a provider of embedded computer modules for Intel, ARM and AMD, what’s your take on the ...
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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
Atmel is sampling its first 2Mbyte embedded flash Cortex-M4 processor-based microcontroller. The SAM4SD32 runs at 120MHz operating frequency and features cache memory for accelerated code execution out of flash. "We are continuing to ...
Tags: Atmel, Cortex-M4, microcontroller, SAM4SD32, IDE
Freescale has designed core-agnostic packet-handling hardware for its QorIQ network processors,allowing it to introduce ARM-based network chips alongside its traditional PowerPC-types. Layerscape,as the packet architecture will be ...
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and ARM Holdings have joined forces to offer PC software developers additional security features. US-based AMD is to license technology from UK-based ARM to add an ARM-based processor to its computer chips ...
Tags: AMD, ARM Holdings, PC software developers, additional security features
Uwatec has designed an ARM Cortex-M3 32bit microcontroller from Energy Micro into its Meridian diving computer. Energy Micro is known for designing extremely low power peripherals for its microcontrollers. This particular one,an ...
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 ...
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MIPS is taking ARM's Cortex-A series and Cortex-M4 head-on with three microprocessor cores:proAptiv,interAptiv and microAptiv. "We have done a large amount of development across our entire portfolio,"MIPS product director Mark Throndson ...
Tags: MIPS, ARM, Cortex-A series, Cortex-M4, Aptiv