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Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor designs and manufactures embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets. It has a range of over 14,000 products. It supplies automotive integrated circuits, integrated communications processors, radio frequency (RF) power transistors for 2.5G and 3G wireless infrastructure applications, digital signal processors (DSPs) based on StarCore technology. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas and has six wafer fabs, two in Austin, Texas, and also Chandler, Arizona; East Kilbride, Scotland; Sendai, Japan and Toulouse, France. It has two assembly and test sites in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Tianjin, China. More information: http://www.freescale.com
Latest Freescale Semiconductor Products
Freescale and Cirrus offer smart meter design
September 22 2010 - Freescale Semiconductor and Cirrus Logic have combined to offer a reference design for smart metering... more
Freescale SC3850 StarCore in general purpose processor
April 27 2010 - The MSC825x family consists of four pin-compatible, fully programmable, single-, dual-, four- and six-core DSPs... more
Freescale offers programmable QorIQ processor
December 08 2009 - According to Freescale, the combination of the QorIQ and QUICC Engine technologies enables the devices to provide both data- and control-plane processing, which eliminates the need for separate FPGAs or Asics... more
Freescale QorIQ quad core has lower power options
September 17 2009 - Freescale is offering a low-power version of it quad-core QorIQ processor family, the P4040 device manufactured using 45nm process technology... more
Pls has debugger for Freescale i.MX25 applications processors
July 24 2009 - A universal debug engine (UDE) from pls Programmierbare Logik & Systeme will support Freescale’s ARM926EJ-S core based i.MX25 family of multimedia applications processors... more
Freescale i.MX25 family of 400MHz ARM9-based MCUs
July 16 2009 - Freescale has introduced a family of 400MHz ARM9-based microcontrollers. ... more
Freescale i.MX25 400MHz ARM9-based microcontrollers
July 07 2009 - Freescale has introduced a family of 400MHz ARM9-based microcontrollers. Dubbed i.MX25, this is Freescale first line of applications processors to integrate LCD and touchscreen controllers, and DDR2 memory support, as well as interfaces for CAN, Ethernet and USB. ... more
Freescale LED backlight driver cuts noise with PWM
July 01 2009 - This six-channel device is designed to allow LED backlights to operate at frequencies above the audible range, thereby eliminating noise issues and reducing visual artifacts... more
Freescale Semiconductor RF power transistors for basestation efficiency
June 30 2009 - Freescale Semiconductor claims to have technology which can increase basestation efficiency in GSM Edge networks. ... more
Freescale S08LG range of MCUs
May 26 2009 - Freescale Semiconductor’s latest 8-bit microcontroller has an integrated LCD driver.... more
Freescale digital-output accelerometer
July 11 2007 - Freescale Semiconductor has expanded its range of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)-based sensors with a 3-axis digital-output accelerometer which is claimed to be one of the thinnest accelerometers on the market.... more
Freescale offers open source route to POS terminals
January 31 2007 - Freescale Semiconductor and Indesign have collaborated on a secure point-of-sale (POS) reference design for industrial control applications... more
Freescale adds FlexRay support to 16-bit MCU
January 08 2007 - Freescale Semiconductor’s latest 16-bit microcontroller family aimed at the automotive market with FlexRay comms support also makes use of coprocessor acceleration... more
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