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Highlights the newest 8/16/32- bit MCUs
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Contains innovative product news for the Embedded Electronic Designer community |
| Atmel's AVR XMEGA Redefines System Performance for 8/16-bit Microcontrollers |
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Atmel announced the AVR® XMEGA™ family, an important addition to their successful AVR microcontrollers. The system performance of AVR XMEGA expands the market reach for 8/16-bit microcontrollers. With second generation of picoPower™ technology, XMEGA is the only family of Flash microcontrollers with true 1.6V operation. The ultra low power consumption is combined with fast 12-bit analog functions, a DMA controller, an innovative Event System and a crypto engine. All features free CPU resources which minimize power consumption and increase system performance. Datasheet: ATXMEGAxxA1, ATXMEGAxxA3, ATXMEGAxxA4
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400 MHz ARM9-based Embedded Microprocessor Consumes Only 80 mW in Active Mode |
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Atmel announced its 400 MHz AT91SAM9G20 ARM926EJ-S™-based embedded microprocessor that draws only 80 mW in full-power mode with all peripherals turned on. The AT91SAM9G20, pin-compatible with the 200 MHz AT91SAM9260, offers four times the cache and on-chip SRAM memory and features improved error correction for external NAND Flash as well as an enlarged Ethernet FIFO that improves latency. The AT91SAM9G20 is targeted at power-constrained applications that also need high performance. These include point-of-sale terminals, building automation, security cameras and bar code readers. The AT91SAM9G20 offers the industry’s widest choice of operating systems, with support for Microsoft® Windows CE®, .NET MF and Linux®, as well as a number of real-time operating systems (RTOS) and middleware products from industry-leading third parties including Adeneo®, IAR®, Keil™, Mentor Graphics®, Micrium, Segger and TimeSys®.
Datasheet: AT91SAM9G20
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picoPower tinyAVR MCUs for battery-based applications
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Atmel announces two new low power 32-pin tinyAVR microcontrollers, the
ATtiny48 and ATtiny88 devices which have 4- and 8-Kbytes of Flash memory,
respectively. These AVR microcontrollers consume less than 240 uA at 1.8V and 1
MHz, and below 100 nA in power-down mode and are especially suited for portable
and power sensitive systems such as remote control, accessories and small
appliances.
The ATtiny48/88 operates from 1.8 to 5.5 volts and features a 10-bit ADC, SPI, I2C interface, internal temperature sensor, and have up to 12 MIPS throughput at 12 MHz. All tinyAVR microcontrollers use the standard AVR microcontroller development tools.
Attiny48/88 Preliminary Summary
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ARM7-based MCU with FPGA Interface to Multi-layer AHB
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Atmel announced the AT91CAP7E, the industry's first ARM7™-based MCU with a direct FPGA interface. The AT91CAP7E is a standard microcontroller with an FPGA interface that makes the FPGA look and work like it is on the internal bus of the MCU. It provides customers with a two-chip, no-NRE, FPGA-plus ARM7 solution and offers an engineering-free migration path to a lower cost, and a lower power customizable MCU. The CAP7E includes a six-layer advanced high-speed bus (AHB), peripheral DMA controller and 160 Kbytes of on-chip SRAM. On chip peripherals include USB 2.0 full speed device, SPI master and slave, two USARTs, three 16-bit timer counters, an 8-channel/ 10-bit analog to digital converter, plus a full-functioned system controller including interrupt and power control and supervisory functions. The FPGA interface on the CAP7E provides the FPGA with direct access to the CAP7E's on-chip AHB and peripheral DMA controller. This architecture eliminates FPGA-induced bus contention, off-loads MCU-to-FPGA communications from the CPU, and frees up the external bus interface for external memory access.
Datasheet: AT91CAPE
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16-bit Microcontroller Containing Dot Matrix LCD Driver with Industry's Highest Resolution
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Epson developed the S1C17702, a 16-bit flash microcontroller that contains the
industry's highest resolution*1 dot matrix LCD driver, and features low power
consumption equivalent to an 8-bit microcontroller. The S1C17702, which has a
16-bit RISC CPU, achieves the high-speed processing capability of one clock
cycle per instruction. This product has a wide variety of interfaces that enable
connection with multiple sensors or peripheral devices. Furthermore, the
large-capacity 128 KB on-chip Flash ROM of the S1C17702 has made it possible to
store large volumes of display data, such as programs. Samples are available now
and volume production, is scheduled to begin in June this year.
Datasheet: S1C17702
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New Brushless DC (BLDC) Stellaris® Reference Design Kit provides Networked Motion Control OEMs with a Time-to-Production Edge
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Luminary Micro announced the immediate availability of a new Stellaris
Reference Design Kit, the Stellaris Brushless DC (BLDC) Motor Control Reference
Design Kit (RDK-BLDC) with Ethernet and CAN. Brushless DC motors offer efficient
operation, excellent torque characteristics, and durability, and are
particularly suited for use in factory automation, medical instruments,
robotics, electric vehicles and mobility devices, pumping and ventilation
systems, and small appliances. With built-in Controller Area Network (CAN) and
Ethernet interfaces, the RDK-BLDC represents an industry benchmark in the
integration of motion control with network-based communication, command, and
control.
Datasheet Stellaris
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We make better 32bit MCUs
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Luminary Micro is the industry leader in bringing 32-bit capabilities and the
full benefits of ARM® Cortex-M3™-based microcontrollers to the broadest reach of the microcontroller market.
Our award-winning Stellaris® family of mixed-signal microcontrollers is available world-wide in component form and in development systems. Explore the new world of pervasive 32-bit and see how far your dollar can go!
Enclosed you find an interactive selector table to select the best 32bit MCU for your next application. Contact Alcom for more info and sample requests.
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Serial to Ethernet and Intelligent Display Reference Design Kits Available
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Stellaris® RDKs provide all the hardware and software you need to start you application today!.
Stellaris® Serial-to-Ethernet Reference Design Kit (RDK-S2E)
The tiny-footprint Luminary Micro Stellaris® Serial-to-Ethernet Reference Design Kit offers a complete, ready-to-implement solution designed to add web connectivity to any serial device. The most common RDK-S2E application is for the purpose of augmenting legacy products that contain a serial port for a configuration or control interface.
Product Brief
Stellaris® Intelligent Display Reference Design Kit (RDK-IDM)
A complete, open-tool graphical touch-screen user interface design solution for control, automation, and instrumentation applications. Included in the RDK-IDM is the Stellaris® Intelligent Liquid Crystal Display Module (MDL-IDM). Featuring Power-over-Ethernet (PoE), the Stellaris® IDM offers a simple method to produce intelligent terminals that can be simultaneously powered and network-connected by a single CAT5 Ethernet cable.
Product Brief
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Third generation of ARM Cortex-M3 microcontrollers, 30 new microcontrollers announced
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Features :
- 6 members of the Stellaris LM3S3000 USB series
- 14 members of the Stellaris LM3S5000 CAN+USB series
- 5 new 64-pin package members to the LM3S1000 real-time MCU series
- 5 new 64-pin package members to the Stellaris LM3S2000 CAN series
- Greater than 120 ARM-based Stellaris microcontrollers in production and available now—more than any other manufacturer!
- Added USB Host / Device (available now) and USB On-The-Go (available Q3’08)
- Added Stellaris Peripheral Driver Library and in-system programming support (boot loader) in ROM – memory space conservation and convenience.
- ARM PrimeCell® 32-channel configurable µDMA controller
- Extended motion control capabilities
- Up to 8 motion control PWM outputs
- Up to 4 hardware fault detection, enabling separate faults for each motor being controlled
- New space-saving 64-pin package option
Product Overview
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Stellaris® Ethernet-enabled Intelligent Display Module
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Featuring a 2.8” QVGA 16-bit color LCD resistive touch panel display , the compact Luminary Micro Stellaris® MDL-IDM28 Intelligent Display Module offers a complete graphical Human Machine Interface (HMI) control panel in control, automation, and instrumentation applications. Taking full advantage of the vast connectivity features included in the integrated Stellaris LM3S6918 microcontroller, the MDL-IDM28 offers full 10/100 Ethernet connectivity, which can serve as a standard system network connection for monitoring and control and as a reprogramming interface to update module firmware in the field. In addition to the 256K of single-cycle Flash memory and 64K of single-cycle SRAM available within the integrated LM3S6918 microcontroller, the Intelligent Display Module also includes a 168K of display buffer memory, an SD Card interface, additional serial connectivity options, an audio transducer, a relay output, and four analog measurement inputs. Also, the MDL-IDM28 can be powered with a standard 24 V DC power supply or through 5 V DC terminals.
Product Brief
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Silicon Labs introduces Industry's lowest voltage MCUs
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The C8051F9xx family is specifically targeted at low-voltage and low-power
applications. It is the industry’s first MCU capable of operating down to 0.9 V. With an integrated dc-dc converter, the C8051F9xx can support both single and dual battery operation. The integrated dc-dc converter can also supply current to external devices to create an entire solution capable of operating from a single battery. The C8051F9xx product family has been designed to provide a fast wake-up time, low active-mode, and ultra-low sleep mode current consumptions, all key attributes for low-power applications. Package options include a 9x9 mm 32LQFP, a 5x5 mm 32QFN, and a 4x4 mm 24QFN. More information: MCU Product guide, MCU engineering tools
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C8051T630 Family Provides Increased Design Flexibility
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Silicon Laboratories announced the expansion of its best-in-class small form
factor microcontrollers (MCUs) with the C8051T630 family of 8-bit MCUs.
Pin-for-pin compatible with Silicon Labs’ C8051F330 family, the T630 devices are low-cost, feature-rich, EPROM-based MCUs that gives the ability to easily interchange the two MCU families for a given product platform.
Features:
• 25 MHz, single-cycle 8051 compatible CPU
• 8 kB of byte-programmable EPROM OTP memory
• 768 bytes of RAM
• 500 ksps, 16-channel, 10-bit SAR ADC
• 10-bit current mode DAC analog output
• Precision internal oscillator and low-frequency oscillator
• Digital communications: SPI, UART, SMBus/I2C
• Pin-compatible with the Flash C8051F330 family
Datashort: C8051T630
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Smallest Automotive Communications Controller
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Silicon Labs announced the industry’s smallest automotive communications controller. The C8051F50x family of mixed-signal MCUs is the first to integrate an ultra high-performance internal precision oscillator to support both CAN and LIN communication networks without an external crystal or resonator. Silicon Labs’ highly-integrated, mixed-signal MCUs are ideal for applications where end-product size is critical such as window lifters, seat positioning and steering angle sensing.
Features:
- 50 MIPS 8051 CPU
- 64 or 32 kB Flash memory
- 4 kB RAM
- 24 MHz on-board oscillator (±0.5%) with clock multiplier
- 12-bit, 200 ksps ADC, ±1LSB INL
- Up to 32 analog inputs
- Up to 40 digital I/O
- CAN 2.0 B, LIN 2.0
- UART, SPI, I²C
- PWM, Timers
- 1.8 to 5.25 V input supply
- –40 to 125 ºC operating range
- Two on-chip comparator and temperature sensor
- Packages:
48-Pin QFP/QFN
32-Pin QFP/QFN
Datasheet: C8051F50x
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Rabbit cores include pin compatibility, wired and wireless options
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Engineers that require a low-risk solution, with seamless hardware and software integration, can look towards the Rabbit 4000 based cores.
RCM4000 10Base-T Ethernet
RCM4100 Small Footprint
RCM4200 10/100 Base-T Ethernet
RCM4510W Wireless Zigbee/802.15.4
RCM4400W Wireless WiFi/802.11
RCM4300 10/100 Base-T Ethernet and miniSD Card
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RCM4510W - The ZigBee® is On-board
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The RCM4510W RabbitCore module is equipped with an on-board ZigBee/802.15.4 modem for wireless connectivity. Features also include 512K flash memory and SRAM, 40 general-purpose I/O, and up to 9 general-purpose I/O 4 of which can be set up as analog inputs via the ZigBee module. The RCM4510W RabbitCore module is easily interchangeable with other RCM4xxx based products due to electrical and functional compatibility. With a small footprint of 1.84” x 2.42” (47 mm x 61 mm), the RCM4510W is compact and can easily be mounted directly onto a user-designed motherboard, along with CMOS-compatible digital devices.
Product Brief
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