A chameleon in the world of microcontrollers - Part I 16 July 2003, Altron Arrow, Access Control & Identity Management So, in a world where the leading manufacturers offer huge families of microcontrollers boasting every combination of peripheral options, bells and whistles, why do we need another one?
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New processors extend power and performance for PDAs 16 July 2003, Altron Arrow, Transport (Industry), Products & Solutions Intel has developed three new processors for personal digital assistants (PDAs) that incorporate the latest microprocessor packaging and stacking techniques. They deliver higher performance and longer ...
Managing power - a Microchip Technologies' Tech-Tip 16 July 2003, Tempe Technologies, Products & Solutions All the low power modes in the world will not help your application if you are unable to control the power used by circuits external to the microprocessor. Lighting an LED is equivalent to running most ...
High density Flash memories for BIOS and code storage applications 16 July 2003, Altron Arrow, Industrial (Industry), Products & Solutions ST Microelectronics has expanded its broad range of firmware hub (FWH) and low pin count (LPC) Flash memories with the introduction of higher density and higher performance 16 Mb Flash devices: the M50FW016 ...
DSP applications: blurring the line between simulation and implementation 16 July 2003, Altron Arrow, EBV Electrolink, Opti-Num Solutions, Access Control & Identity Management You are a DSP engineer tasked with designing and implementing a 15-band digital audio equaliser on a Texas Instruments DSP. You use MATLAB to start the design process. From there, you can design your ...
Phase locked loop clock synthesizers 16 July 2003 ON Semiconductor's NBC12429FN, a 3,3/5,0 V programmable phase locked loop (PLL) clock synthesiser that provides a 25 to 400 MHz system clock, is suited for the primary timing signals in networking, telecoms ...
Bus interface for level translation 16 July 2003, Altron Arrow STMicroelectronics has introduced a 16-bit dual-supply bus transceiver level translator available in the innovative TFBGA package. It is designed for applications in PDAs, motherboards, cellular base-stations, ...
High pin-count PICmicros now include 32 KB Flash memory devices 2 July 2003, Tempe Technologies Microchip Technology has added a 32 KB memory option to its 64- and 80-pin TQFP PIC18F Flash microcontroller family. Ideally suited for applications requiring a large memory, these microcontrollers offer ...
Complex domain VLIW DSP core delivers 1 GFlops at 100 MHz 16 July 2003, Altron Arrow, EBV Electrolink Atmel has introduced mAgic, which it says is the world's first complex domain, extended precision very long instruction word (VLIW) DSP core for SoC implementation. The mAgic core provides single-cycle ...
Countersurveillance and surveillance equipment exhibitions July 2003, News & Events TSCM Services, Parinto Corporate Risk Management, VIP Technologies and Corporate Crime Management (CCM) of Pretoria have decided to conduct equipment exhibitions again throughout South Africa.
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Serial RTC and supervisor chip integrates own crystal 4 June 2003, Altron Arrow ST Microelectronics has announced a new version of its M41ST85 serial realtime clock (RTC) and supervisor chip that includes a 32 kHz crystal and comes in a low-profile, small footprint SOX28 package. ...
Family of compatible ROM and Flash 8-bit MCUs 4 June 2003, Electrocomp STMicroelectronics' series of ST7232x general purpose microcontrollers is for applications requiring medium and large memory capacities and high pin-count packages in Flash and ROM versions. In addition ...
Demo board for low pin-count PICmicros 21 May 2003, Tempe Technologies Microchip is offering its new PICDEM 4 Demonstration Board that it says helps engineers to evaluate and demonstrate the advanced capabilities of the company's low pin-count PICmicro Flash microcontrollers. ...
ICUs ideal for motor control and other embedded solutions 21 May 2003, Electrocomp The 408 family is the one-time programmable (OTP) series of STMicroelectronics' series of ST5 register file-based 8-bit ICUs (intelligent controller units). The core uses a hardware multiplier and divider ...
Memory solution for embedded applications has data encryption 21 May 2003, Altron Arrow, EBV Electrolink Atmel has announced that its CryptoMemory product line is now available in plastic packages. These integrated circuits are said to be the industry's only low cost, high security memory chips with data ...
'Lite' family for small-scale, cost-sensitive microcontroller applications 21 May 2003, Electrocomp The ST7FLITE0 is the first in a new sub-family of ST7 microcontrollers from STMicrolectronics. It extends the lower end of the ST7 range, designed to fit applications with state-of-the-art features in ...
USB transceiver addresses voltage level-shift requirements 21 May 2003, MB Silicon Systems California Micro Devices offers the CM2400-01, a new USB (universal serial bus) transceiver that provides a high-bandwidth connectivity solution for today's mobile electronic devices.
The device provides ...
8051-class micro line expanded 21 May 2003, Altron Arrow ST Microelectronics has expanded its µPSD3200 family of 8-bit Flash 8051-based microcontrollers to offer a complete range of 8051-class micros. The µPSD325x devices expand the SRAM from 8 to 32 KB, while ...
First secureAVR microcontroller with 32 Mb flash 7 May 2003, EBV Electrolink Atmel is sampling a secureAVR RISC Microcontroller with 32 Mb Flash. This product is based on the AT90SC3232CS secureAVR processor (32 KB Flash, 32 KB EEPROM) with in addition 32 Mb of Flash for very ...
