Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced the MEC14XX family of highly configurable low-power embedded controllers customized to the needs of x86-based notebook and tablet platform designers. The scalable family of MEC14XX devices is one of the first to support both the Intel® Corporation’s new Enhanced Serial […]
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ARM processors carry ultra-low power
capacitive touch, segment LCD controller
Atmel Corporation announced the company has expanded its popular family of secure, ARM® Cortex® M0+-based MCUs with the SAM L22 series. The Atmel | SMART SAM L series is the highest scoring product family in the EEMBC ULPBench, the leading independent low-power benchmark. The new devices offer an ultra-low power capacitive touch with a segment […]
Application processors target audio, image processing
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)*, a committed leader that collaborates with technology companies to create breakthrough designs, announced the latest additions to its TZ2000 series of ApP Lite™ application processors. The TZ2100 group of high-performance processors utilizes a single 600MHz ARM® Cortex®-A9 core with a floating point unit (FPU), parallel camera and external bus […]
Replicated processors outperform emulations
Rochester Electronics, a fully-authorized manufacturer and distributor of semiconductors, offers replication of processors versus a less reliable device emulation through its Semiconductor Replication Process. There are several companies within the semiconductor industry selling their emulated versions of popular processors originally produced by Freescale and Intel. Because Rochester Electronics receives processor intellectual property (IP) from the […]
ARM co-processor eliminates need for FPGAs, ASICs
The programmable real-time unit (PRU) on Sitara processors from Texas Instruments (TI) enables customers to differentiate their products by offloading real-time processing from the ARM® core. The PRU is a 200MHz low-latency multicore co-processor optimized for deterministic, real-time processing with local peripherals and memory that allows customers to save time and money by removing costly […]
