Controller wins
11 July, 2008Advantech has received the Taiwan Excellence award for its intelligent audio and video controller, the UbiQ-350.
Low-voltage MCU
01 July, 2008Silicon Laboratories has released what it claims is the first microcontroller capable of operating down to 0.9 V, enabling portable devices to derive power from a single-cell battery.
USB microcontrollers
10 March, 2008Microchip has announced 12 high-performance, 8 bit flash microcontrollers, including Microchip's first USB and LCD MCU families to include an on-chip, high-speed 12 bit analog-to-digital converter peripheral.
Debugging a programmer
19 February, 2007Microchip says its PICkit 2 development programmer now supports in-circuit debugging of selected PIC microcontroller products.
Stellaris LM3S811 evaluation kit
15 January, 2007Luminary Micro has released the Stellaris LM3S811 evaluation kit with ARM RealView microcontroller development kit (MDK-ARM) evaluation software.
20-pin microcontroller
04 October, 2006Microchip has announced two 20-pin PIC microcontrollers to strengthen its 8-bit portfolio.
Single-chip microcontroller
02 May, 2006Renesas Technology America, Inc. today announced the SH7211F single-chip microcontroller (MCU) with on-chip flash memory, which features a fast SH-2A CPU core with good real-time control capability, an operating speed of 160MHz, and a processing capability of up to almost 320 MIPS.
USB microcontroller secures HDD access
08 February, 2006Fingerprint recognition technology has been used by Cypress Semiconductor and AuthenTec to introduce a reference design for adding biometric security to external hard disk drives (HDDs).
ARM operating system
03 August, 2005Keil Software has announced the advanced real-time operating system for ARM (ARTX-ARM), a flexible real-time operating system with TCP/IP networking and flash file system support for ARM-based controllers.
Secure microcontroller
11 August, 2003Atmel is sampling a secureAVR RISC microcontroller with 32 Mega-bit flash based on the AT90SC3232CS (secureAVR processor, 32 KB flash, 32 KB EEPROM) with in addition, 32 Mega-bit of flash for secure datastorage.
New manufacturing technique for microelectronics
24 July, 2003About every 18 months, the number of transistors in computer chips doubles - the direct result of ever-shrinking sizes. By decreasing the size of these components and consequently, fitting more of them onto a single chip, computer speed and power improves. Thanks to a new manufacturing technique - developed by an international team of researchers which includes Paul Nealey, a University of Wisconsin-Madison chemical engineer - manufacturing the minute may soon be cheaper and more exact.
Breakthrough tuning for microelectronics
17 June, 2003The ability to make atomic-level changes in the functional components of semiconductor switches, demonstrated by a team of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, North Carolina State University and University of Tennessee physicists, could lead to changes in the semiconductor industry.
PC-based controller
05 June, 2003ICP Electronics Australia has released the DIN-310, a fan-less Transmeta Crusoe PC-based controller, designed to mount on a DIN rail or be use in wall-mount applications.
8 bit microcontroller
11 February, 2003Available from Active Components in 28 pin PLCC and TSSOP is the Philips P89LPC932 that has a 2.4 to 3.6 V VDD operating range with 5 V tolerant I/O pins.
