Microcontrollers

Microcontrollers – whether 8, 16 or 32bit – are all around us: at home, at work, in our cars and in industrial systems. Reflecting this abundance, the market for microcontrollers is worth more than $16billion a year and growing strongly.

For a long while, microcontrollers – or mcus – were proprietary. But the advent of the ARM Cortex-M range of processor cores has changed that by providing a common platform on which mcu vendors can develop differentiated products. Nevertheless, proprietary designs continue to prosper.

While 8bit parts continue to dominate the market – by revenue and by unit shipments – the price performance advantage of ARM based 32bit devices, along with the need to accommodate more complex software, is starting a move from 8bit to 32bit mcus. And this is accompanied by the appearance of multicore devices.

New Electronics not only covers microcontroller technology and its end applications regularly, but also reports on developments in the embedded software and operating systems sectors.

News

Energy Micro extends range with Cortex-M4F based microcontrollers

Energy Micro is extending its EFM32 Gecko mcu range with the addition of 60 products based on the ARM Cortex-M4F core. The company now offers more than 240 ...

Embedded World: Cortus announces processor IP roadmap for embedded SoC applications

Cortus, a specialist in 32bit processor IP, has announced it is to launch three new microcontroller IP cores as part of its processor roadmap.

Embedded World: congatec presents COM Express Type 6 module with low power Intel processors

Embedded computer modules maufacturer, congatec, has announced the conga-TS67, a new low power module for advanced designs.

Embedded World: ARM to deliver opening keynote presentation

ARM has announced details of the opening keynote presentation at Embedded World, Nuremberg.

Embedded World: Infineon 32bit mcus target industrial applications

Infineon Technologies has announced a new 32bit microcontroller family that uses the ARM Cortex-M4 processor and is designed for industrial applications.

Technology

Offloading tasks from the microcontroller can improve power efficiency

The single biggest concern among microcontroller users used to be system cost, but energy consumption has steadily become a bigger issue.

GPUs set to enter the mainstream

Until recently, demand for more processor performance has been met by faster clocking, more bit width and ever smaller fabrication nodes. The introduction of ...

Facebook's new data centre is home to numerous innovations

It is reasonable to assume that anyone reading this article has dealings, in some way, with a data centre. Whether it's through the use of social networking ...

The best route to avoiding counterfeit electronics

It's been discussed and analysed for years, yet there does not seem to be an end in sight for the trade in counterfeit electronics.

FRAM set to save energy in write intensive mcu applications

Texas Instruments has launched the first of a series of 16bit microcontrollers that use ferroelectric memory (fram) instead of flash, claiming that the ...

Products

Embedded World: Analog Devices showcases signal processing solutions

Analog Devices will showcase innovative signal processing solutions for embedded applications designed for industrial, automotive, healthcare and other markets ...

Embedded World: Silicon Labs showcases mixed signal products

Silicon Laboratories will showcase its next generation mixed signal microcontrollers and development tools at Embedded World 2012 in Nuremburg, Germany, ...

Embedded World: ADLINK Technology highlights

ADLINK Technology will present amongst other products, the following highlights on booth 1.532 at the Embedded World Show Nuremberg:

Renesas RX210, RX630 microcontrollers

Rutronik has added two new microcontroller families from Renesas to its portfolio, the RX210 and RX630.

PIC32 based microcontroller development kit

Microchip has announced the availability of a PIC32 32bit microcontroller based development kit through Digilent.

Interviews

Aurelius Wosylus, regional sales manager for EMEA, Advanced Micro Devices

Chris Shaw discusses AMD's latest low power processors with Aurelius Wosylus.

Rick Clemmer executive director, president and chief executive officer, NXP

Rick Clemmer believes high performance mixed signal is just one of the sectors in which NXP can be a 'true leader'. Graham Pitcher finds out more.

Henri Richard, chief sales and marketing officer, Freescale

Freescale's chief sales and marketing officer tells Graham Pitcher that he's working for a 'new company'.

Patrick Zammit, president, Avnet Electronics Marketing EMEA

Patrick Zammit, president, Avnet Electronics Marketing EMEA, talks with Chris Shaw.

Blogs

Comparing apples 08/06/2009

Gauging the power of a processor has always been an interesting process for engineers. For the longest time, it was the manufacturer – who also ...

Most popular

Embedded World: Xilinx demos

Xilinx has released details of demos it will be giving on stand H1-205 at Embedded World, Nuremberg.

Embedded World: Toshiba

Toshiba Electronics Europe will be demonstrating its newest hardware and software development tools for speeding ...

Embedded World: Kontron

Following the announcement of its strategic entry into ARM architecture, Kontron will be showcasing some of the ...

Meeting analogue ambitions

Custom analogue/mixed signal asics are economical at comparatively low volumes, with affordable non recoverable ...

Offloading tasks from the mcu

The single biggest concern among microcontroller users used to be system cost, but energy consumption has steadily ...

Embedded World preview

This year's embedded world exhibition and conference takes place in Nuremberg from 28 February to 1 March. The ...

Embedded World: Analog Devices

Analog Devices will showcase innovative signal processing solutions for embedded applications designed for ...

Embedded World: Silicon Labs

Silicon Laboratories will showcase its next generation mixed signal microcontrollers and development tools at ...

Wire to board connectors

CamdenBoss has launched two new series of wire to board connectors designed to provide solid and reliable ...

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