Microprocessors

NXP has introduced real-time microcontrollers for automotive ECUs, certified to ISO/SAE 21434 for cybersecurity and ISO 26262 ASIL D for functional safety. Part of its S32 range, they are: S32Z for safety processing and domain/zonal control S32Z1 series (future) 4x Cortex-R52 S32Z2 series 8x Cortex-R52 S32E for electric vehicle control and actuation S32E2 series 8x Cortex-R52 E parts are essentially Z parts with a ...

NXP will be launching a new microcontroller portfolio at Embedded World. Called MCX, the MCUs will span from highly-secured high pin-count processors with 4Mbyte flash and 1Mbyte of sram, to a Cortex-M in a 16pin package – the smallest Electronics Weekly has yet heard of. Made on a 40nm process and build around Arm Cortex-M33 cores, there will be four fundamental ...

STMicroelectronics is promoting key-less car access with a design that supports the CCC (Car Connectivity Consortium) Digital Key 3.0 standard, developed with Giesecke+Devrient (G+D). The product, called STSAFE-VJ100-CCC, is a pre-programmed secured microcontroller from the company’s ST33KxxxA family – also described simply as a ‘secure element’ – which has an Arm Cortex-M35P core that comes with additional security features to help protect ...

MC Nano series and compatible modules by Mikroelektronika Integrated platforms with microcontrollers have been gaining popularity in recent years (Arduino being probably the most renowned brand here). With their accessibility and support from the manufacturers and the community of users, they constitute a versatile and user-friendly development tool. However, a limited number of supported systems is a disadvantage of such ...

Renesas has revealed MCUs with dual 800MHz Arm Cortex-R52 cores and Ethernet for motor control in ac servo drives, inverters and industrial robots. “RZ/T2M is capable of controlling the servo motors that drive robots at extremely high speed and with high precision,” said company industrial automation v-p Toshihide Tsuboi. “I anticipate that it will contribute to the development and widespread adoption ...

Microchip has announced Autosar-ready ISO 26262-compliant dsPIC33C MCUs for vehicle use. Developed following ISO 26262 process, the dsPIC33CK family has hardware features intended to simplify functional safety certifications for ASIL-B and SIL-2 automotive and industrial safety-critical applications. The dsPIC33CK1024MP7xx part of the family has 1Mbyte of flash and “enables applications running automotive software like Autosar, OS, MCAL drivers, ISO 26262 functional ...

TI has introduced new Sitara AM62 processors that help expand edge AI processing applications. The low-power design of the new processors enables support for dual-screen displays and small-size human-machine interface (HMI) applications. For more information, see TI.com/product/AM625. The next generation of HMI will bring new ways of interacting with machines, such as enabling gesture recognition to give commands in a ...

Microchip has turned to a Linux-capable single core 1GHz Arm Cortex-A7 to offer artificial intelligence (AI) processing for video and audio signals at the edge. “AI solutions often require imaging and audio capabilities which are typically found only on higher performing multi-core microprocessors that consume much more power,” claimed the company. The IC, SAMA7G54, includes both MIPI CSI-2 and traditional ...

Renesas will demonstrate Arm’s Cortex-M85 embedded processor at Embedded World in Nuremberg, expecting it to be the first public airing of the new core in a microcontroller. Aimed at IoT applications requiring artificial intelligence or machine learning, Cortex-M85 will be able to deliver over 6CoreMark/MHz, according to Renesas, and is built around Armv8.1m architecture with Helium – the latter being ...

Microchip has announced a cyber-attack-resilient microcontroller family for securing end-user equipment that goes “beyond NIST 800-193 Platform Firmware Resiliency guidelines with run-time firmware protection that anchors the secure boot process while establishing an entire chain-of-trust for the system”, according to the company, adding that it is also designed for Open Compute Project Security Called CEC173x, the aim is to be a real-time root-of-trust ...