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Atmel Develops Floating Point Unit for 32-bit AVR UC3 Microcontrollers
Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced a new technology, a Floating Point Unit, that is being designed for Atmels 32-bit AVR® UC3 product family.
This new technology will enable designers to replace a two chip microcontroller and digital signal processing (DSP) solution with just one Atmel microcontroller (MCU) for applications in the automotive and industrial control markets. ...
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http://www.atmel.comdate: 3/12/2010
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Atmels Low-Power 8-Bit MCUs Optimized for Touch Sensing
Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced that its low-power ATtiny 10/20/40 microcontroller (MCU) families are optimized for touch sensing support of buttons, wheels and sliders.
Featuring Atmels AVR MCU and its patented low-power picoPower® technology, these devices are ideal for a number of applications in the cost-sensitive industrial and consumer markets including automotive...
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http://www.atmel.comdate: 3/12/2010
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TI adds Code Composer Studio tools and new brushed DC motor reference
Simplifying design through the expansion of its software and tool offering, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced that its Stellaris ARM® Cortex-M3 MCUs are fully supported by the Code Composer Studio (CCStudio) v4 integrated development environment, and eight new Stellaris MCU evaluation kits featuring CCStudio v4 are immediately available in standard distribution.
Based on the Eclipse framework, CCStudio v4 is...
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http://newscenter.ti.comdate: 3/12/2010
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New Freescale processor helps lower costs and foster innovation for next-generation eReaders
Freescale Semiconductor is helping drive down the cost of next-generation eReaders with its i.MX508 applications processor, the first system-on-chip (SoC) to integrate advanced ARM Cortex-A8 technology together with the newest hardware-based display controller from E Ink. Freescales highly integrated i.MX508 processor is designed to deliver the performance, energy efficiency and system cost savings necessary to help OEMs evolve and grow...
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http://media.freescale.comdate: 3/12/2010
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Renesas Technology Announces 100MHz 32-bit RX62T Flash MCUs, Enabling the Design of Control
Renesas Technology America, Inc., today announced the release of the RX62T group of microcontrollers (MCU). The new devices have strong eco-features and deliver the environmental performance now in high demand for motor-control and inverter-control applications.
These 100MHz, feature-rich MCUs with no-wait flash memory illustrate how Renesas is using the goals of its corporate Green Energy Initiative to drive chip design in eco-friendly...
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http://america.renesas.comdate: 3/12/2010
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Ashlings Opella-XD for MIPS now supports MIPS32 24K, 24KE and 74K cores.
Ashling Microsystems, a NeST Group company, has recently upgraded its Opella-XD Debug Probe to support MIPS32 24K, 24KE and 74K cores.
Opella-XD is a high-speed EJTAG Debug Probe with a USB2.0 host interface and supports up to 3MB/s code download speeds (JTAG runs up to 100MHz). Opella-XD works with either Ashlings PathFinder user interface or the GNU GDB/Eclipse CDT Windows- and Linux-based debuggers.
Opella-XD is available directly...
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http://ashling.comdate: 3/12/2010
Express Logic develops, markets and supports the ThreadX® real-time operating system (RTOS), NetX TCP/IP networking stack, USBX USB stack, and FileX® embedded file system, and PEGX GUI toolkit for embedded applications.
ThreadX is a royalty-free, full source code, small-footprint, low-overhead RTOS that is extremely easy to learn and use. ThreadX is one of the most widely deployed RTOS products in the world, with over 700 million products based on ThreadX.