Lapis Semiconductor has added voice playback capability and a Class-D amplifier to an 8bit microcontroller. 450mW is available at the output at 3V, or 1W at 5V. Called ML610Q304, it comes with up to 96kbyte program flash, 2kbyte data flash and 1kbyte RAM. Hardware-based audio playback minimises CPU load, and two suggested playback formats are 16kHz 16bitPCM and 16kHz HQ-ADPCM. ...
IEC-3300 is a small-box computer based around Intel’s Bay Trail Celeron and Atom processors from Arbor Technology in Milton Keynes. Inside the 109 x 163mm enclosure, soldered-in processor options are: 1.58GHz dual-core N2807 Celeron (standard) 2GHz quad-core J1900 Celeron (option) 1.33GHz dual-core E3825 Atom (option) Applications are expected in automation and digital signage. “The system is perfect for customers looking for out-of-the-box CE/FCC certification. said ...
Toshiba has announced a new ARM Cortex-M4F based microcontroller for use in secure systems control. Called TMPM46BF10FG and part of the firm’s TX04 range, it incorporates a true random number generator (TRNG: SP800-90C standard) through a random entropy seed generation (ESG) circuit and Hash-DRGB created by the secure hash processor (SHA) and software program. “This meets the standards of security ...
Cypress Semiconductor is sampling a USB Type-C cable controller which includes power delivery (PD) on a small footprint. It is designed for use in 2.4mm thin USB Type-C cable connectors. The programmable EZ-PD CCG2 controller is capable of supporting any USB Type-C downstream facing port (DFP) or upstream facing port (UFP) applications. It is available in a 3.3 mm2 wafer ...
ARM is working with Silicon Labs to create power management application programming interfaces (API) for Cortex-M-based embedded systems as part of its mbed development platform. The APIs are designed to allow developers to manage processor and peripheral states. For example a feature exposed by the APIs on Silicon Labs’ EFM32 Gecko microcontrollers determines and enables the optimal sleep mode based ...
Rutronik is selling Vekatech’s development board VK-RZ/A1H with the embedded microprocessor RZ/A1H from Renesas with an ARM Cortex-A9. The embedded microprocessor RZ/A1H with running at up to 400MHz clock speed integrates up to 10MB of on-chip RAM, OpenVG compatible graphics accelerator, dual LCD-drivers and camera inputs. The internal SRAM can hold two layers of WXGA size images making external SRAM ...
Toshiba has added two ARM Cortex-M4F based TX04 series microcontrollers. Both the TMPM470FDFG and TMPM475FDFG are capable of operating two brushless DC motors simultaneously.
Texas Instruments has introduced a 16MHz 16bit RISC microcontroller with four 24bit sigma-delta ADCs, with differential programmable gain amplifiers. ADCs have 2nd order over-sampling modulators and digital decimation filters. “The decimation filters are comb-type filters with selectable oversampling ratios of up to 256. This results in ADCs that have a high degree of resolution with a high degree of accuracy,” ...
Claimed to be the smallest PC ever, Hannspree has squeezed a real Intel+Microsoft PC into a stick – it includes a quad-core Atom and will run Windows 8.1. Called Micro-PC, in needs to be plugged into an HDMI-compatible display (touch optional) and a wireless keyboard with tough pad. “Set up office in any location and be up and running in ...
Toshiba has announced three ARM Cortex-A9 microprocessors intended for sound and image data-mining, communications, and security. “Recent advances in big data are making it easier to sift through huge volumes of data and to develop services that provide users with greater value and convenience,” said the firm. “These advances require higher performance application processors that support secure communication and provide ...
