Embedded Systems News.
Embedded System Product News New Rabbit 6000 Microcontroller has on-chip WiFi MAC The new Rabbit 6000 microcontroller runs at 200MHz and has on-chip WiFi MAC Mar 4, 2010 - 3:08:28 PM
Embedded System Product News Microchip Introduces 16 New Enhanced Mid-Range 8-bit Core Microcontrollers Microchip has introduced sixteen new 8-bit nanoWatt XLP Flash microcontrollers targeted for low power applications. Mar 2, 2010 - 3:01:19 AM
Bits and Bytes (short news) CMX Tiny Available for Microchip PIC32 The small footprint CMX-TINY+ RTOS is now available for the Microchip PIC32 microcontroller. CMX also offers their full featured CMX-RTX which has been available for the Microchip PIC32 since its introduction. Jan 15, 2010 - 12:49:52 PM
Embedded System Product News New Atmel SAM3S Cortex Microcontrollers Offer High Integration and Very Low Power Atmel SAM3S microcontrollers draw a mere 1.45mW/MHz and boast lots of peripherals Dec 15, 2009 - 12:16:00 PM
Embedded Business News Zilog Aquired by IXYS IXYS has annunced it's intention to buy distressed microcontroller manufacturer Zilog Dec 7, 2009 - 12:29:39 PM
Embedded System Product News Atmel ATtiny Microcontrollers have 6 Pins, ADC, and LOW Power Consumption New Atmel ATtiny Microcontrollers have only 6 pins, ADC, 1.0KBytes Flash, and 100nA Sleepy Nov 23, 2009 - 3:02:13 PM
Embedded System Product News New Microchip PIC32 Families are Loaded With Everything! Microchip has introduced three new PIC32 32-bit microcontroller familes with CAN and USB. Nov 18, 2009 - 7:42:10 PM
Embedded System Product News ARM Microcontrollers Support Adobe Flash ARM Microcontrollers now support Adobe Flash applets Oct 5, 2009 - 10:07:52 PM
Embedded System Product News New Atmel Cortex M3 runs 96MHz with 480Mbps USB The Atmel Cortex M3 runs at 96MHz and has a lot of very high speed peripherals, including 480Mbps USB Jun 1, 2009 - 6:10:16 PM
Embedded Business News Texas Instruments Buys Luminary Micro Texas Instruments has bought the microcontroller company Luminary Micro May 14, 2009 - 12:35:15 PM
Embedded System Product News New Freescale MC56F8006 Digital Signal Controllers boast Low Power The new Freescale MC56F8006 family of low power Digital Signal Controllers have a low run current and a standby current of less than 1uA. Apr 29, 2009 - 2:30:18 PM
Embedded Business News Renesas and NEC to Merge! Renesas and NEC Electronics have announced that they will merge and form the world's 3rd largest semiconductor company Apr 27, 2009 - 4:28:00 PM
Embedded System Product News Microchip Introduces New nanoWatt XLP eXtreme Low Power PIC Microcontrollers Microchip has introduced several new 8-bit and 16-bit PIC microcontrollers with Deep Sleep currents as low as 20nA Apr 23, 2009 - 8:58:26 PM
Embedded Business News Zilog Sells Off Two Product Lines Zilog sells off the 8-bit Crimzon IR Remote Control and 32-bit Point-of-Sale Microcontroller Product Lines Feb 19, 2009 - 9:29:43 PM
Development Tools News Microchip MPLAB ICD 3 Boasts Faster Debugging - VIDEO Microchip MPLAB ICD 3 is a high speed upgrade of the ICD 2 Oct 28, 2008 - 12:38:47 AM
Embedded Business News Freescale Selling East Kilbride Cellular Chip Business Comes True! As predicted, Freescale is selling off it's RF and power management IC business. Oct 10, 2008 - 1:44:25 PM
Embedded System Product News New Texas Instruments C2000 Piccolo Targets Low Cost Applications Texas Instruments Piccolo™ 32-bit microcontrollers show surprising high performance with very low cost. Sep 8, 2008 - 10:47:12 AM
Embedded Business News Lattice Semiconductor Appoints Bruno Guilmart President and CEO Lattice has appointed Bruno Guilmart President and CEO. Guilmart has an extensive history in the semiconductor equipment industry. Jun 16, 2008 - 6:26:05 PM
Embedded System Product News Lowest Power MSP430 Microcontrollers from Texas Instruments Texas Instruments has introduced their lowest power MSP430 microcontroller to date! Jun 9, 2008 - 6:10:35 PM
Embedded System Product News New ARM Cortex STM32 Microcontrollers from ST have More of Everything STMicroelectronics has doubled the size of their STM32 Low Power ARM Cortex Product Family May 28, 2008 - 2:34:44 AM
Embedded System Product News New STR91xFA ARM9 from STMicroelectronics With Ethernet Boasts Huge 2.1Mbytes of Flash STR91xFA ARM9 microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics with Embedded Ethernet boasts a huge 2.1Mbytes of Flash, more than any other ARM-based microcontroller Apr 11, 2008 - 4:23:29 PM
Bits and Bytes (short news) IAR Systems announces major upgrade to visualSTATE visualSTATE 6.1, UML-based state machine design tool, incorporates several major enhancements, including: generation of fully human-readable code; build integration with IAR Embedded Workbench; verification improvements; and logging to test sequence files. Feb 26, 2008 - 4:45:00 PM
Embedded System Product News New STM8 8-bit Microcontroller from STMicroelectronics is ST7 Upgrade STMicroelectronics has introduced the STM8, a new low power 8-bit microcontroller. At 24MHz & 3V, the core draws only 11mA. Feb 25, 2008 - 2:26:00 PM
Embedded System Product News Texas Instruments New MSP430 Family Offers Even Lower Power and 120KBytes Flash TI's new MSP430F2x family offers a high accuracy ADC, up to 120KBytes of Flash, and 500nA standby current Dec 10, 2007 - 12:11:00 PM
Embedded System Product News New Microchip PIC32 Microcontrollers Run at 72MHz The new Microchip PIC32 is a new 32-bit MCU family based on the MIPS32 M4K architecture, running at 72MHz and up to 512KBytes of Flash Nov 5, 2007 - 2:36:00 PM
Embedded System Product News New High Performance PIC18 K Family from Microchip Microchip Announces New PIC18F4XK20/2XK20 8-bit Microcontroller Family targeting Low-Cost, Low-Power and High-Performance Operation Sep 19, 2007 - 10:12:00 AM
Embedded System Product News Ramtron Introduces 8051 Microcontroller with 64 KBytes Flash and 2 KBytes Nonvolatile F-RAM Ramtron has introduced a 40MHz 8051 with 64KBytes of Flash, and 2 KBytes of non-volatile F-RAM Sep 18, 2007 - 2:47:00 PM
Bits and Bytes (short news) ThreadX Supports Renesas SH-2A Microcontrollers Express Logic's ThreadX® multitasking real-time operating system (RTOS), FileX® file system NetX™ networking stack and USBX™ USB stack now supports Renesas SH-2A 32-bit microcontrollers. Sep 17, 2007 - 3:33:00 PM
Embedded Business News IAR Systems appoints Andreas Lifvendahl Sales and Marketing Director IAR has appointed industry veteran Andreas Lifvendahl Sales and Marketing Director Sep 17, 2007 - 3:10:00 PM
Bits and Bytes (short news) General Software Offers BIOS for AMD Opteron General Software, Inc. is the first BIOS provider to offer firmware for AMD’s new Opteron™ Quad-Core processor. General Software’s Embedded BIOS® with StrongFrame™ Technology firmware is also the first to leverage AMD’s new AGESA 3 software. Sep 12, 2007 - 3:54:00 PM
Semiconductor
Book to Bill Ratio:
·Aug 08 - 0.81
·Sep 08 - 0.70
·Oct 08 - 0.96
·Nov 08 - 0.97
·Dec 08 - 0.86
·Jan 09 - 0.47
·Feb 09 - 0.49
·Mar 09 - 0.61
·Apr 09 - 0.65
·May 09 - 0.73
·Jun 09 - 0.80
·Jul 09 - 1.06
·Aug 09 - 1.03(p)
Source: SEMI
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CMX Systems - RTOS
Renesas R8C High Integration Microcontroller
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