'Microcontrollers' Category Archive

Adeneo, Freescale Team on Windows Embedded CE, Linux Support for i.MX

Posted by EDA Geek News Staff in Microcontrollers, RTOS on Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Adeneo, a Microsoft® Windows Embedded Gold Partner with facilities in Europe and in the USA, announced during the Freescale Technology Forum Conference Orlando Florida, the beginning of their collaboration with Freescale on the i.MX family of applications processors. Adeneo has more than 550 engineers with a complete system expertise, both on hardware and software design, that bring a reliable answer to OEMs willing to secure the design of their embedded products in the best time-to-market.

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Gleichmann Introduces NEC 78K0R/Kx3-L All Flash Microcontrollers

Posted by EDA Geek News Staff in Microcontrollers on Wednesday, June 18, 2008

The 22 new 16-bit All Flash microcontrollers (MCUs) of the 78K0R/Kx3-L series from NEC Electronics (Distribution: Gleichmann Electronics) require only 1.5 milliwatts (mW) per million instructions per second (Dhrystone 1.1) and therefore, currently offer the industry's highest power/performance ratio. The new MCUs are based on NEC Electronics' high-performance 16-bit 78K0R CPU core.

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Atmel Debuts AT91CAP7E ARM7 Microcontroller with Direct FPGA Interface

Posted by EDA Geek News Staff in FPGAs, Microcontrollers on Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:ATML) announced the AT91CAP7E, the industry's first ARM7(TM)-based MCU with a direct FPGA interface. The AT91CAP7E is a standard microcontroller with an FPGA interface that makes the FPGA look and work like it is on the internal bus of the MCU. It provides customers with a two-chip, no-NRE, FPGA-plus ARM7 solution and offers an engineering-free migration path to a lower cost, and a lower power customizable MCU.

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AMCC Announces PowerPC 460GTx Embedded Processor

Posted by EDA Geek News Staff in Microcontrollers on Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ:AMCC), a global leader in embedded Power Architecture[tm] processing, optical transport, and storage solutions, announced the newest member of its embedded processor family, the PowerPC® 460GTx. Based on the Power Architecture standard, the PowerPC 460GTx processor combines a performance optimized PowerPC core with a high-bandwidth memory and I/O subsystem to support demanding embedded processing applications. Protecting the software investment customers made in AMCC's PowerPC 440 processor family, the PowerPC 460GTx provides a high- performance migration path for customers using the AMCC PowerPC 440GX and 460GT processors.

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Freescale Unveils 3 Power Architecture Automotive Microcontrollers

Posted by EDA Geek News Staff in Microcontrollers on Monday, June 16, 2008

Freescale Semiconductor, the leading semiconductor supplier to the automotive industry, has expanded its portfolio of Power Architecture[tm] microcontrollers (MCUs) to address a broad range of cost-sensitive automotive applications requiring 32-bit performance. The company has introduced three new automotive MCU families optimized for safety, chassis, instrument cluster, body electronics and gateway designs.

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Freescale Rolls Out QorIQ P1, P2 Communications Processors

Posted by EDA Geek News Staff in Microcontrollers on Monday, June 16, 2008

Freescale Semiconductor introduces the first two product series based on its new QorIQ[tm] Communications Platforms for next-generation multicore networking applications. The P1 and P2 platform series include Freescale's first communications processors based on 45-nm technology. Utilizing the e500 Power Architecture® core, these devices offer a multicore migration path for PowerQUICC® II Pro and PowerQUICC III processor customers.

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