New 1 Mbit nvSRAM shipping 10 March 2004, Tempe Technologies Simtek has announced shipments of its new 0,25 µm 1 Mbit nvSRAM tested to both commercial (0 to +70°C) and industrial (-40 to +85°C) specifications. The STK14CA8 1 Mbit nvSRAM provides four times the ...
4-Mbit Flash System Memory for DSPs 10 March 2004, Surveillance STMicroelectronics' 4-Mbit Flash DSM2150F5 is the company's third DSP system memory (DSM) product. It provides an in-system-programmable, turnkey system-memory solution for digital signal processors. ...
Complete microcontroller solution for motor control 25 February 2004, Tempe Technologies, Information Security, Integrated Solutions, Infrastructure A family of 8-bit Flash PICmicro microcontrollers with new advanced motor control peripherals is available from Microchip. The 40-pin PIC18F4331/4431 and 28-pin PIC18F2331/2431 micros provide a complete ...
Faster FPGAs speed DSP operations 11 February 2004, EBV Electrolink The two largest members of Altera's Stratix FPGA family are now available in faster speed grades. With 79040 and 57120 logic elements (LEs), respectively, the EP1S80 and EP1S60 members of the Stratix ...
32-bit microprocessor offers large SRAM and cache 11 February 2004, Altron Arrow, Hi-Q Electronics The SH7641, a 32-bit SuperH RISC microprocessor from Renesas, features 144-Kbyte SRAM, 16-Kbyte cache memory and comprehensive peripheral functions including a multifunction timer unit for motor control. ...
SPI serial EEPROMs 11 February 2004, Tempe Technologies Microchip's 8-Kbit 25XX080A/B and 16-Kbit 25XX160A/B are SPI bus-compatible serial EEPROM devices that have a maximum clock speed of 10 MHz, a write time of 5 ms, and a write current of 3 mA. These devices ...
World's first 1 GHz DSP 11 February 2004, Altron Arrow, EBV Electrolink Texas Instruments released the world's first 1 GHz digital signal processor (DSP). The TMS320C6414T, '5T, and '6T DSPs at 1 GHz provide eight GigaMACs on 8-bit data for video and imaging applications, ...
Linearising to obtain volume from level measurement February 2004, Level Measurement & Control A company that produces various liquids had a need for an indicator that could display, in litres, the amount of solvent in a tank. Because the solvent is corrosive, an ultrasonic level sensor was used. ...
1 GB CompactFlash has extremely fast write speed 28 January 2004, Altron Arrow, Hi-Q Electronics, Financial (Industry) Renesas Technology has released a 1 GB CompactFlash Type I (3,3 mm thick) that it claims offers the fastest available write speed of 10 MBps. The company is also currently developing a 4 GB PC-ATA card ...
33 MIPS 8051 micros have in-application programmable flash memory 28 January 2004, CST Electronics, Residential Estate (Industry) Dallas Semiconductor has introduced its latest ultra-high-speed microcontrollers, the DS89C430, DS89C440, and DS89C450. At one clock-per-machine cycle, these microcontrollers can achieve up to 33 MIPS, ...
Low pincount PIC microcontrollers 28 January 2004, Tempe Technologies Microchip's PIC12F683, PIC16F684 and PIC16F688 microcontrollers offer up to 7168 bytes of Flash program memory, making use of PMOS electrically erasable cell (PEEC) Flash technology that offers one million ...
PIC micros with more power control options 28 January 2004, Tempe Technologies, Access Control & Identity Management Microchip offers new microcontrollers that have up to 8K words of reprogrammable Flash program memory and 368 bytes of RAM. The PIC16F737/747/767/777 can operate at up to 5 MIPS at 20 MHz. In addition, ...
Linux port now on ARM9 core-based microcontroller 19 November 2003, Altron Arrow, EBV Electrolink Atmel has launched a Linux operating system port for its AT91RM9200 microcontroller and its ARM9 core-based ASICs. It enables application developers to take full advantage of the resources and support ...
The 'six myths of microcontroller choice' 19 November 2003, Tempe Technologies, Security Services & Risk Management, Residential Estate (Industry) Everyone knows that flexible product designs make the best sense in today's rapidly changing markets, where requirements can change from day to day. So with all this focus on flexibility and adaptation, ...
32-bit microcontroller for price-sensitive applications 19 November 2003, Altron Arrow, Hi-Q Electronics Renesas' new H8SX/1650, part of its family of 32-bit CISC microcontrollers, is a ROMless device that is claimed to achieve an excellent balance between cost and performance, enabling high-performance ...
Single-chip manages high-capacity data queueing 19 November 2003, Information Security IDT has introduced a new sequential flow-control (SFC) device family, the latest addition to the company's portfolio of flow-control management ICs. The devices provide high-performance data flow management ...
3-wire serial EEPROMs in SOT-23 package 19 November 2003, Tempe Technologies, Surveillance, Access Control & Identity Management, Education (Industry) Microchip Technology has produced what it says is the industry's first 8 and 16 Kbit Microwire-compatible serial EEPROMs in a 6-lead SOT-23 package. The package footprint is approximately 72% smaller ...
Developer's kit for Linux 5 November 2003 The UNC20 Developer's Kit for Linux includes a UNC20 module, a baseboard with schematics, and LxNET ES for ARM7 processors. This developer's kit is offered by FS Forthe Systeme. LxNET ES includes an Embedded ...
