Tag Archives: Embedded World

Freescale Semiconductor has added messaging semaphore and a higher level of encryption security to its i.MX 6SoloX dual-core ARM-based system-on-chip (SoC) device. The SoC incorporates cryptographic cipher engines and a configurable resource domain controller that allows peripherals to be locked or shared by the CPU cores. Embedded World: Your Electronics Weekly guide » Also on-chip is a secure messaging semaphore unit that ...

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced at Embedded World today a PSoC 4 programmable system-on-chip device with a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 core. The aim is to allow customers to upgrade existing 8- and 16-bit applications without significant cost increase. Embedded World: Your Electronics Weekly guide » The device also adds more programmable analogue and digital blocks, 128kbyte flash memory, a direct memory ...

Green Hills Software tools and compilers now support an expanded range of Imagination’s MIPS CPU intellectual property (IP). This includes support for the microMIPS code compression instruction set architecture (ISA) and support for MIPS Warrior M-class and I-class CPUs, including key architectural features such as hardware virtualization. Embedded World: Your Electronics Weekly guide » This year, Green Hills Software will ...

Arrow Electronics has introduced a development board with sensor options, communication interfaces and connection to the Cloud for IoT designs. Based on the Arduino form factor with an Atmel ARM Cortex-M0+ based CPU. Embedded World: Your Electronics Weekly guide » Called the SmartEverything board, it includes a Telit SIGFOX M2M module and service. There is GPS with embedded antenna for ...

Silicon Labs has upgraded its Simplicity Studio integrated MCU/wireless development environment which willow support concurrent microcontroller and RF design. The new software release adds support for the supplier’s latest 8-bit EFM8 MCU family, new EZR32 sub-GHz wireless MCUs and EM35xx Ember ZigBee wireless SoCs. Embedded World: Your Electronics Weekly guide » The package includes an Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE), ...

Xilinx has integrated three ARM processors with seven cores on its latest Zynq programmable system-on-chip device. The programmable device, which is part of the company’s latest 16nm finfet ultraScale+ family of FPGAs, combines a 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor with a dual-core Cortex-R5 real-time processor for deterministic operation and a Mali-400MP graphics processor. Embedded World: Your Electronics Weekly guide » ...

Microsemi has signed up Mouser Electronics as its latest global distributor. Mouser will sell via its website Microsemi’s product portfolio including the SmartFusion2 and IGLOO2 product families, timing and synchronisation products, and power-over-Ethernet products. Embedded World: Your Electronics Weekly guide » Its main markets are defence, security, communications, aerospace and industrial markets. According to Phil Sansone, Microsemi vice-president of global ...

Spansion has brought out its HyperBus interface which increases read performance while reducing pins.

Silicon Labs has introduced Blue Gecko which combines its EFM32 Gecko MCU technology with a Bluetooth Smart transceiver on one die combined with the Bluegiga Bluetooth Smart software stack which can transmit +10 dBm or higher output power with its integrated power amplifier and balun.

An 8-bit microcontroller can now operate a 800×600 colour LCD graphics screen, and video is possible, thanks to a higher resolution faster version of the Eve graphics processor from Glasgow chip firm FTDI. Hardware acceleration means jpeg image decode 500-1,000x faster than on the original 512×512 Eve, and a single ‘rotate’ instruction automates portrait-landscape switching for the host processor. Embedded ...