Microprocessors

NXP is sampling the S32K3 MCU family designed for automotive body electronics, battery management and emerging zone controllers with software that spans security, functional safety and low-level drivers. The S32K3 expands NXP’s S32 automotive platform from gateway and domain control into zone control and edge nodes. Plus, it enables software reuse among multiple applications to reduce the complexity of vehicle ...

NXP has announced its latest NXP EdgeReady IoT solution for secure face recognition that enables original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to quickly, easily and inexpensively add vision-based touchless access control. NXP’s turnkey solution includes the i.MX RT106F crossover MCU and license to AI/ML-based face recognition software, which makes possible face recognition with liveness checking using infrared and RGB cameras, flash and ...

Renesas and Sequans will partner to develop IoT modules based on Sequans’ Monarch LTE-M/NB-IoT platform. The modules are designed to provide IoT companies with an integrated microcontroller (MCU) plus connectivity platform that streamlines and simplifies IoT system design for many applications, including smart city, smart home, and industrial IoT. The collaboration between the two companies includes providing support for multiple ...

Earlier today, Maxim announced an AI processing chip for battery-powered devices needing convolutional neural networks (CNNs). What the company has done, is to put custom CNN processing hardware alongside a conventional 100MHz Arm Cortex-M4F core – 4F is the floating point M4 – and squeezed in the added surprise of a 60MHz 32Bit Risc-V core for low power signal processing – ...

STMicroelectronics has introduced a third generation of Bluetooth chip, describing it as “the world’s first Bluetooth LE 5.2-certified SoC to support concurrent connections up to 128 nodes”. Called BlueNRG-LP, according o the company it can consume as little as 3.4mA in receive mode, 4.3mA when transmitting, and under 500nA when quietly waiting for wake-up events. RF output power is programmable ...

Microchip has added an autonomous LCD driver to its list of MCU peripherals, that can change the display while the CPU sleeps to save power. “Most display applications involve a few common animations like periodically alternating between displays and blinking of pixels to indicate operation,” according to the company. “By using the integrated LCD driver with autonomous animation, developers can ...

STMicroelectronics has revealed microcontrollers built around Arm’s Cortex-M7 core and operate at 550MHz, “the fastest core speed in the market among MCUs that integrate flash storage on-chip to run deeply embedded applications”, claimed ST. “At the same time, the devices can interact with off-chip storage while ensuring full execution performance and security.” The single-core devices are available with up to 1Mbyte ...

Microchip has introduced a Risc-V FPGA development kit, claiming it to be industry’s first. “Icicle Development Kit for PolarFire system-on-chip FPGAs brings together numerous Mi-V partners to accelerate customer design,” according to the company, “Designers who want to deploy a programmable Risc-V-based SoC/FPGA are now able to evaluate Risc-V ecosystem products such as real-time operating systems, debuggers, compilers, and security ...

Silicon Labs has launched a pair of Bluetooth Low Energy system-in-packages: BGM220S is small – 6 x 6mm 1.1mm tall BGM220P is slightly larger, optimised for greater range “BGM220S and BGM220P are among the first Bluetooth modules to support Bluetooth Direction Finding, all while delivering up to ten-year battery life from a single coin cell,” according to the company. The small ...

STMicroelectronics has added a QFN48 package to its STM32WLE5 wireless SoCs. Called STM32WLE5Cx “the new 7mm x 7mm package option makes it suited to a simplified two-layer board design that eases manufacturing”, according to the company – ‘x’ decides how much flash is available. These chips combine an ARM Cortex-M4 STM32L4 microcontroller with Semtech’s SX126x sub-GHz radio IP. They support ...