Bringing developers advanced integration, scalability and peripherals all in one chip, Texas Instruments announced the Sitara™ AM57x processor family, the highest performance devices in this processor platform. Sitara AM57x processors are designed for a broad range of embedded and industrial applications through their unique heterogeneous architecture including ARM® Cortex®-A15 cores for high-performance processing and running a high-level operating […]
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Open imaging platform for low-power video streaming
ON Semiconductor, driving energy efficient innovations, has introduced an open imaging platform for low power video streaming applications. The MatrixCam™ video development kit (VDK) has been developed specifically to encourage greater video adoption within Internet of Things (IoT) products, as well as accelerating OEMs’ time to market. Among its key applications are home automation systems, […]
SPI NOR flash memory billed as industry’s fastest
Non-volatile memory (NVM) solution manufacturer Macronix announced the industry’s fastest SPI NOR flash memory, the OctaFlash MX25UM product family. OctaFlash provides designers with the next generation performance level of x8 I/O serial interface products with an operating frequency of up to 200MHz and transmission speeds of up to 400MB/s. This world class leading performance aids […]
First MCU products in embedded hardware/software dev platform
Renesas Electronics’ first products in the company’s new Renesas Synergy Platform include the S7G2 and S3A7 microcontroller (MCU) groups, which target connected human machine interface (HMI) and power-efficient control applications used in industrial, healthcare, home appliance and metering products. Development kits featuring the two MCU groups, software development tools, and the Renesas Synergy Software Package (SSP) […]
Software-defined radio module integrates
RF signal path and high-speed programmable logic
Avnet, Inc. introduced the PicoZed SDR Z7035/AD9361, a rugged, low-power, small footprint system-on-module (SOM) that integrates critical RF signal path and high-speed programmable logic, enabling designers to dramatically reduce cycle times for development of the RF-to-baseband signal processing core for wireless communications systems. The fully verified PicoZed Software-Defined Radio SOM provides frequency-agile wideband 2×2 receive […]
Top microcontroller threads on EDAboard.com – September
Question about coding 7-segment, 5-digit driver – I am planning to use 25Hz-50Hz clock signal to feed the CD4017 decade counter which is used for selecting the digits. In the timer interrupt vector, should I update the data on the each digit? Or, how I can do this? When a button is pressed and an interrupt is created, […]
Development platform for Smart ARM, AVR MCUs
Atmel® Corporation, a manufacturer in microcontroller (MCU) and touch solutions, announced the release of Atmel Studio 7, the company’s comprehensive, free integrated development environment (IDE) for MCU design using Atmel | SMART ARM® processor-based and AVR MCUs. Atmel is also launching Atmel START—a new, highly intuitive graphical platform for creating and configuring embedded applications that allow developers to build […]
Low-power Bluetooth Smart SoC comes in WLCSP format
Atmel® Corporation, a manufacturer in microcontroller (MCU) and touch solutions, announced it is shipping the industry’s lowest power, smallest footprint Bluetooth® Smart solution in production quantities. Consuming less than 4mA in RX and less than 3mA TX at 3.6V, the devices increase battery life by as much as one year or more for certain applications. Pushing the limits […]
LVDS output comparators toggle beyond 890Mbps
Linear Technology Corporation announces the LTC6754, a high speed LVDS output comparator capable of toggle rates up to 890Mbps. This extremely fast comparator operates with only 1.8ns of propagation delay, 1ns of overdrive dispersion, and 1.5psRMS of jitter. Combined, these features address the most challenging high speed applications for data acquisition, clock and data recovery […]
Development kit includes SoC FPGA equipped with ARM Cortex-M3 processor
Avnet, Inc., a global technology distributor, and Microsemi Corporation, a provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, introduced the new SmartFusion™2 KickStart Kit. The versatile prototyping solution designed by Avnet offers engineers in communications, medical, automotive, video, smart energy and industrial markets the much-needed low power, high security and reliability required […]
