Monthly Archives: February 2012

USB solutions specialist Future Technology Devices International Limited (FTDI) has supplemented its portfolio of USB to serial interface products with the release of its new X-Chip series. Made up of devices in 13 different package options, X-Chip complements the company’s … Continue reading →

Atmel announced at Embedded World today two innovations promising to make MCU design easier. The company launched Atmel Studio 6, the latest version of its popular integrated development environment (IDE) that now supports both Atmel 32-bit ARM Cortex-M series processor-based … Continue reading →

Microchip has launched a new family of 8-bit microcontrollers featuring next-generation analogue and digital peripherals, making them ideal for general-purpose applications, as well as battery charging, LED lighting, ballast-control, power-conversion and system-control applications.

Element14 and STMicroelectronics unveiled the STM32F2-based DEVKIT1207 evaluation kit at Embedded World.  The kit is a complete development environment for STM32F207IGT6 devices which enables engineers to easily and rapidly evaluate, prototype and test designs built around the STM32F207xx series microcontrollers.  … Continue reading →

Energy Micro announced at Embedded World that it will extend its EFM32 Gecko range of microcontrollers with the addition of products based on the ARM Cortex-M4F core. The addition of 60 new EFM32 Wonder Gecko devices brings the total number … Continue reading →

At Embedded World today, Toshiba Electronics Europe unveiled the BMSKTOPASM369 – a new Starter Kit for the first family of ARM-Cortex microcontrollers to combine Ethernet, CAN and USB Host and Device connectivity in a single IC. The BMSKTOPASM369 Starter Kit … Continue reading →

TI and Aricent announced at Mobile World Congress that they have collaborated on a small cell protocol stack optimised for TI’s KeyStone-based multicore SoCs. According to the companies, integrating TI’s KeyStone architecture element for Layers 2, 3 and transport processing … Continue reading →

Tensilica and mimoOn showed LTE User Equipment and an eNodeB PHY with real-time downlink and uplink traffic at Mobile World Congress today. The radio demo was built on Tensilica’s Atlas LTE reference platform implementing the ConnX BBE16 DSP and Tensilica … Continue reading →

Freescale has debuted its first large cell basestation-on-chip based on its QorIQ Qonverge multimode platform. The QorIQ Qonverge B4860 baseband processor supports LTE, LTE Advanced and WCDMA, and integrates high performance cores, application-specific accelerators and optimal power/cost ratios.

32-bit processor IP company Cortus, based in Montpellier, France, has said it plans to launch three new microcontroller IP cores over the next six months. The new cores will share common technology with the company’s highly efficient APS3 core but … Continue reading →