Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a leading global technology distributor, today announced that its MicroZed and PicoZed SoMs and Zynq Mini-ITX embedded motherboards will now ship with a custom configured version of the recently released Wind River Pulsar Linux, a small-footprint commercial-grade binary Linux OS based on the Wind River Linux distribution. Wind River Pulsar Linux […]
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Top microcontroller threads on EDAboard.com – November
Writing random numbers in PIC16F1936 internal EEPROM – Could anyone advise on how I can write the data randomly in EEPROM using MicroC? Read more Can’t print to thermal printer using serial communication port – I have interfaced an EPM203A-LV printer with my Renesas microcontroller RL78/G12 using UART. For this I am using CS+ IDE. Read more Port B […]
ARM Cortex-M4 MCUs target industrial/appliance uses, motor control
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY), a global leader in embedded systems solutions, today announced the availability of three new series of devices in its high-performance FM4 portfolio of Flexible Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on the ARM® Cortex®-M4 core. FM4 MCUs operate at frequencies up to 200 MHz and support a diverse set of on-chip peripherals for […]
Zilog Announces New ZNEO32! 32-bit Microcontroller Family
Zilog®, an IXYS Company (NASDAQ: “IXYS”), focusing on application specific solutions with microcontrollers (MCUs), introduced its ZNEO32! family of 32-bit Cortex M3 microcontrollers, thereby expanding its line of microcontroller products. The new Cortex M3 microcontrollers are special-purpose MCUs for first class motor applications that offer cost effective, high performance 32-bit computing capabilities. This family of […]
Capacitive-touch controllers optimized for low-power apps
Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced the expansion of its MTCH10x mTouch® sensing portfolio with the turnkey MTCH102-5-8 capacitive touch controllers. In a hardware-only configuration, these 2, 5 and 8-channel controllers replace mechanical buttons with a simple digital output, making it easy to add proximity and […]
SoC for Enterprise Printer/MFP, 3D printing tasks
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Marvell (NASDAQ:MRVL) — a worldwide leader in providing complete silicon solutions from mobile communications to storage, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud infrastructure, digital entertainment, in-home content delivery and Kinoma® software enabling the “Smart Life and Smart Lifestyle”– today announced the industry’s most advanced printer system-on-chip (SoC), the […]
USB controller converts GigE
data to USB 3.0 data
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today announced a new high-throughput, low-power SuperSpeed USB controller that converts Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) data to USB 3.0 data. The EZ-USB® GX3™ controller targets slimmer laptop designs that include an ultra-thin USB Type-C port and no bulky Ethernet port. GX3 provides comprehensive driver […]
USB 3.0 Camera Reference Design Kit
Sports 13-Mpixel resolution
SAN JOSE, Calif. and TOKYO, Aug. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) and THine Electronics, Inc. (Tokyo Stock Exchange/JASDAQ: 6769) today introduced the industry’s fastest* USB 3.0 camera reference design kit with 13-megapixel resolution at 21 frames per second. The new Ascella design kit is based on Cypress’s EZ-USB® CX3™ USB 3.0 […]
This week’s top microcontroller threads on EDABoard.com
Connecting 80 inputs to a microcontroller – I want to check inputs from optocouplers. How can I multiplex the inputs to a microcontroller? I prefer to use the8051, PIC16f877a, or ATMega. Read more. MCP3428 interfacing – I am using the MCP3428 diferential ADC with a single shot conversion and interface through I2C to my microcontroller. It’s […]
Top microcontroller threads this week on EDAboard.com
How to design a CAN BUS network from scratch – This is a step-by-step design that demonstrates how to connect several nodes to one another through the aid of a CAN bus network. The purpose of this design to overcome the limit of the classical RS232 interface. Read more. Problems with RF communications between PIC – I […]
