Microprocessors

 NXP has announced a combined digital instrument cluster and connectivity reference platform designed for mass-market two-wheelers, including motorcycles, electric scooters, commuter bikes, and more. The platform combines the high performance i.MX RT1170 crossover MCU with the highly integrated AW611 single-chip Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth/Bluetooth Low Energy Audio connectivity solution and the KW45 secure wireless access MCU to deliver a highly ...

Nordic Semiconductor is aiming at Bluetooth, Thread and Matter with a secured wireless microcontroller built around a 128MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor with 1.5Mbyte of non-volatile memory and 256kbyte of ram, which it describes as “ample for concurrent running of multiple protocols” and providing “double the processing power of the nRF52840 SoC while reducing power consumption” – the claim includes halved ...

Microchip has created a PIC32 family with a 300MHz 32bit Arm Cortex-M7 processor and hardware security, for industrial and consumer devices. “Application designers must consider implementing security functionality in their devices during the development process as security threats evolve and become more sophisticated,” said Microchip. The devices are called PIC32CZ CA90, and their secure module has its own microcontroller running ...

SiPearl, which is building the EU-funded Europrocessor, is to supply JUPITER, the European exascale supercomputer owned by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. JUPITER will be installed at the Forschungszentrum Jülich campus in North Rhine-Westphalia and built by a consortium composed of Eviden (the Atos Group) and ParTec (the German modular supercomputing company). The expected budget is €273 million. The JUPITER general-purpose ...

Microchip has introduced a family of 14 and 20 pin microcontrollers with up to two I3C (improved inter integrated circuit) busses that work up to 12.5MHz. The smallest measures 3 x 3mm. PIC18-Q20 parts, as they will be known, have the company’s ‘multi-voltage’ IO so that they can work in circuits with up to three different logic voltages. “Compared to ...

Renesas has created interfaces between its Reality AI Tools  and its e2 studio integrated development environment, enabling designers to  share data, projects and AI code modules between the two programs. Modules for real-time data handling have been integrated in Renesas MCU Software Development Kits Flexible Software Package (FSP) for RA, Firmware Integration Technology (FIT) for RX and Software Integration System ...

Nordic Semiconductor has announced EEMBC benchmarks for its forthcoming multi-protocol nRF54H20 wireless microcontroller, which combines multiple Arm Cortex-M33 processors and multiple RISC-V coprocessors “optimised for specific types of workloads”, it said, adding that developers will be able to dynamically change between configurations for processing ability or energy efficiency. Configured for high processing efficiency, it got a ULPMark-CM score of 170 ...

AMD has completed its 4th gen EPYC family, with down-tuned lower-power 5nm CPUs for intelligent edge applications in retail, manufacturing and telecommunications. Called the EPYC 8004 series, they are multi-chiplet ICs with up to 64 of the company’s ‘Zen 4c’ cores – a slower version of the Zen 4 – fitting the company’s new smaller (SP6) socket, and are aimed ...

Dermot O’Driscoll, of ARM, believes specialised processing techniques will be key to managing increased volumes of data as users embrace AI. Regardless of location – in the car, the office, at a sporting event, the hospital – billions of connected devices are capturing data and making intelligent decisions based on that information. The hunger for data is growing with the ...

The value of processing in real-time control systems is misunderstood but undeniable, says Meghana Manavazhi, of Texas Instruments. There are misconceptions around the role of processing in real-time control systems. It is easy, for example, to assume that it is tied only to the core CPU or MIPS, focusing purely on data crunching. Growing energy use – especially in grid ...