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32-bit processor pushes deeper into 8-bit territory 11/25/2009
NXP’s 50-MHz ARM Cortex-M0-based LPC1100 microcontroller family represents the latest 32-bit challenge to 8- and 16-bit processors.PIC32 expands connectivity support 11/18/2009
Microchip Technology’s PIC32MX5/6/7-family chips expand the connectivity support of PIC32 processors to cover 10/100-Mbps Ethernet; CAN (controller-area-network) 2.0b; and USB (Universal Serial Bus) host, device, and OTG (On-The-Go) peripherals.Six-core DSP stresses energy efficiency 11/6/2009
Texas Instruments’ new six-core TMS320C6472 DSP boasts a 3.68W power-use sweet spot when operating all six cores at 500 MHz with 80% usage. The cores support 625- and 700-MHz operation with a trade-off of energy efficiency at the 500-MHz operation point.Cortex-M3 microcontroller cuts energy consumption 10/29/2009
FPGA-evaluation boards come with design software 10/21/2009
Altium’s new NanoBoard 3000 embedded-system-development platform includes a board with an FPGA chip, an IR (infrared) remote control, and a 12-month license for Altium Designer schematic and FPGA software.PSoC available on standard 8- and 32-bit architectures 10/2/2009
Cypress Semiconductor’s PSoC (programmable system-on-chip) processors not only enable developers to dynamically reconfigure digital-logic blocks to form custom digital peripherals during runtime, but also support dynamically reconfigurable analog blocks to form custom analog peripherals—also during runtime.Touch controller allows you to ignore extra touches 10/2/2009
Atmel’s mXT224 maXTouch touchscreen controller combines the company’s mutual capacitive sensors, a charge-tansfer method of signal acquisition, and an Xmega microcontroller with bundled software to provide processing for handling an unlimited number of touches on a touchscreen.DSP engine sports hybrid-SIMD/VLIW operation with ITU compatibility 8/25/2009
The ConnX D2 DSP-engine option adds dual 16-bit MAC units and an eight-entry, 40-bit register file to the base architecture of the Xtensa LX DPU (data-plane-processing unit).1-GHz Cortex-A8 maintains cycle-accurate operation 7/31/2009
Samsung Electronics and Intrinsity have worked together to produce an ARM Cortex-A8 processor, Hummingbird, that can operate at 1 GHz in a 45-nm, low-power process and maintain the same cycle-accurate and Boolean-equivalent operation as the original Cortex-A8 RTL (register-transfer-level) specification.Tool bundles target FPGAs 6/25/2009
Xilinx this year introduced two families of Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs that enable targeted-design platforms. The company is now adding domain-specific-tool support to the targeted-platform concept. Xilinx’ ISE (integrated software environment) Design Suite 11.1 offers interoperable domain-specific design flows and tool configurations for logic, DSP, embedded processing, and system-level design....DSP combines fixed- and floating-point operation 4/23/2009
Texas Instruments’ TMS320C6743 low-power DSP features both high-precision, wide-dynamic-range, floating-point operations and higher-performance, lower-power, fixed-point operations in the same device.FPGA serial I/O hits 11.3 Gbps 4/9/2009
In the latest additions to its Stratix range of FPGAs, Altera has incorporated serial-data transceivers that support signal rates as high as 11.3 Gbps. The company envisages the Stratix IV GT’s parts finding applications in 40- or 100-Gbps systems. You might use a link at the maximum speed to directly connect an optical receiver or transmitter to the FPGA.Customizable microcontroller, $75,000 NRE costs target 10,000-unit applications 4/1/2009
Atmel’s AT91CAP7L standard-product microcontroller has as many as 200,000 gates of MCPF (metal-programmable-cell fabric) that you can use to implement proprietary customer IP (intellectual property), hardware accelerators, additional processor cores, or peripherals.EDN names winners of 19th Annual Innovation Awards 3/31/2009
EDN has bestowed its 19th Annual Innovation Awards, honoring a diverse group of electronics engineers and the ground-breaking products they have produced. The Altera Stratix IV 40-nm FPGA design team is named Innovator of the Year. Read on for a complete list of the winners.Floating-point microcontroller doubles performance 3/31/2009
Targeting the needs of high-performance applications, Texas Instruments’ TMS320C2834x Delfino controllers offer twice the floating-point performance of previous TMS320C2000 devices.ADVERTISEMENT
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