Freescale Semiconductor has added floating point capability to its QorIQ Qonverge B4 range of DSP-based system-on-chip devices.
The B4420 and B4860 are the first devices in the family to include floating point arithmetic. The target computation-intensive applications include radar, medical and media imaging, video analytics, security…
ARM says that LG Electronics has extended its license agreements to include the Cortex-A50 processors and next generation Mali graphics processor cores.
LG Electronics has previously used both Cortex processors and Mali GPUs in its system-on-chip (SoC) devices. This new agreement will extend the performance of the…
Energy Micro is working with TSMC to verify the benefits of using the foundry’s Extreme Low Leakage (eLL) process to produce the next generation of its Cortex-M microcontrollers.
TSMC’s eLL process is a refinement of its embedded flash (EmbFlash) technology with even lower power consumption than its…
Energy Micro has released the ARM Cortex-M4F version of its ultra-low-power microcontroller family, with up to 256kbyte flash and 32kbyte RAM.
M4 is a Cortex-M3 with added DSP functions, and the Norwegian company has gone for the floating point unit (FPU) M4F option, considerably adding to…
Basingstoke-based design and manufacturing firm BitBox has developed an ARM processor-based music server and it is manufacturing first products for its un-named customer.
The music server has three separate music audio outputs, controlled from a wireless key-pad or from an Internet browser.
BitBox has based the…
Fujitsu has added low pin count versions to its ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller family.
Called the MB9B120J series, these are the first devices in the firm’s FM3 family with 32pin packaging, in this case LQFP and QFN starting at 5x5mm.
Operating speeds are up to 72 MHz, which is…
The PIC16F527 and PIC16F570 microcontrollers are designed with on-chip dual op amp module, 8-bit ADC and two comparators
The processor firm has announced its latest embedded system-on-chip (SOC) platform based on the AMD next-generation “Jaguar” CPU architecture and AMD Radeon 8000 series graphics