Microprocessors

AMD has introduced its most powerful line of AMD PRO A-Series mobile and desktop processors. Formerly called Carrizo and Godavari PRO, the processors are intended to run Windows 10, said AMD. PRO A-Series Mobile  These have the firm’s fastest mobile processor – version A12 running at up to 3.4GHz. There are 12 cores (4 CPU + 8 GPU). Graphics are ...

Your TV services box could also soon become your Wi-Fi hub. STMicroelectronics has announced an HDTV set-top box system-on-chip  device with integrated Wi-Fi functionality. The chip firm has used Wi-Fi 802.11 IP developed by Quantenna in its latest Cannes Wi-Fi (STiH390) SoC. This is an 28nm FD-SOI chip with a multi-core ARM CPU capable of delivering 6K DMIPS and Mali 400 GPU ...

Texas Instruments’ latest 32-bit floating-point microcontroller, called Delfino, gets in-system programming with the FlashRunner line from SMH Technologies of Italy. The in-circuit programming of the F2837xD microcontrollers, which have two real-time control accelerators (CLAs), avoids the limitations associated with traditional programmable devices (On-Socket or Pre-Programmed). Villotta di Chions-based SMH says the FlashRunner programmer’s open architecture makes its firmware upgradable to also support TI TMS320F2837xD ...

Microchip has included a hardware crypto engine with both OTP and RAM options for secure key storage in its PIC24F ‘GB4‘ family, which also has up to 256kbyte flash and direct drive for 512 LCD segments. Dual-partition live update flash allows the devices to hold two independent software applications, and permits the simultaneous programming of one partition while executing application code ...

Renesas Electronics has announced the availability of the RL78/I1D range of microcontrollers incorporating analogue peripheral functions for sensing applications. As a result the RL78/I1D functions are designed for integration into detectors that sense minute variations in the output of sensors used to monitor for smoke, gas, and motion or vibrations. As a power saving function, the data transfer controller (DTC), ...

Microchip has added a set of small footprint large flash MCUs to its 32bit MIPS M4K-based PIC32 MX1/2 MCU family. Called the PIC32MX230F256 series, it comes in 28 and 44 pin packages, clocks at 50MHz (83 DMIPS) and has 256kbyte flash and 16kbyte ram. There is also Microchip’s 8bit Parallel Master Port (PMP) for graphics or external memory, a 10bit, ...

Infineon’s TriCore Aurix microcontrollers now have free software development tools courtesy of Altium. The Lite Edition of the Tasking VX-toolset for TriCore includes a one year license and can be requested now on the Infineon or Tasking websites. Harm-Andre, Tasking product manager, writes: “We were often asked about the availability of a quick and easy way to explore the advantages of ...

Phaedrus Systems has announced that its Emprog ThunderBench C/C++ development tool suite supports the STM32F7 discovery kit

ON Semiconductor has developed a range of image co-processors to work with 1.2 and 2 megapixel image sensors specifically in automotive rear view and surround view cameras. According to Sandor Barna, vice president at ON Semiconductor, the processor will support both 1080p and 720p video in automotive applications. “We have added higher resolution, multiple interfaces and new automotive-targeted features such as ASIL support,” said Barna. The ...

STMicroelectronics’ STM32F7 series ARM Cortex-M7 core microcontroller just got easier to design in with a starter kit that has a Arduino Uno connector for coupling into the open source design environment. Dubbed the Discovery kit, it comes with a 4.3-inch WQVGA colour LCD with touchscreen. There is a 128Mbit Quad-SPI flash memory interface, 128Mbit SDRAM and interfaces for a micro SD ...