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RX72M Microcontrollers with EtherCAT Support for Industrial Applications RX72M Microcontrollers with EtherCAT Support for Industrial Applications

Renesas Electronics Corporation released the RX72M Group of RX microcontrollers (MCUs) featuring an EtherCAT slave controller for industrial Ethernet communication. The new MCUs offer a high-performance, single-chip MCU solution with large memory capacities for industrial equipment requiring control and communication functions such as compact industrial robots, remote I…

32-bit RX23E-A MCU Built-In Analog Front End for Sensing and Measurement Equipment 32-bit RX23E-A MCU Built-In Analog Front End for Sensing and Measurement Equipment

Renesas Electronics Corporation released the RX23E-A Group 32-bit RX microcontrollers (MCUs) For High-Precision Sensing and Measurement Equipment deliver better-than 0.1% Precision Performance in Temperature, Pressure, Weight, Flow and other measurements. The RX23E-A Group 32-bit RX MCUs achieve AFE precision at the highest class in the industry (offset drift: 10 nV/°C, gain…

Top View of the MachXO3D Device FPGA Family Enhances Security with Hardware Root-of-Trust Capabilities

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation released the MachXO3D FPGA for securing systems against a variety of threats faced by OEMs. With MachXO3D, OEMs can simplify the implementation of comprehensive, robust and flexible hardware-based security for all system components. MachXO3D FPGA can detect, protect and recover itself and other components from unauthorized firmware access at…

32-bit MCUs with dedicated hardware accelerator for Servo Control in Industrial Robots 32-bit MCUs with dedicated hardware accelerator for Servo Control in Industrial Robots

Renesas Electronics Corporation released the RX72T Group of 32-bit Motor Control MCUs (Microcontrollers) with dedicated hardware accelerator IP to perform complex, high-speed computations required for motor control in robots and other industrial equipment. The RX72T Group achieves Highest CoreMark Benchmark Level for 5V MCUs operating at 200 MHz with a score of 1160 as…

Serial Communication Protocols Serial Communication Protocols

Before starting with Serial Communication Protocols, let’s break down the terminology into three parts. Communication is a very well-known terminology that involves the exchange of information between two or more mediums. In embedded systems, communication means the exchange of data between two microcontrollers in the form of bits. This exchange of data bits in a…

Intel Stratix 10 FPGA Programming Introduction to FPGA and It's Programming Tools

With growing popularity of microcontrollers engineers are using microcontrollers more than FPGAs. The Microcontrollers have become dominant over FPGA because of their cheap cost, good support, easy availability, large community, versatility, programming etc. But other than that microprocessors have some limitations such as the instructions set, sequential execution of…

NXP’s LPC55S6x Arm Cortex-M33-based MCUs for Secure Edge Applications NXP’s LPC55S6x Arm Cortex-M33-based MCUs for Secure Edge Applications

Mouser Electronics is now offering NXP Semiconductors' LPC55S6x microcontrollers, the first members of the NXP LPC5500 series. Offering impressive levels of security, processing efficiency, and functionality, the NXP LPC55S6x microcontrollers feature dual Arm Cortex-M33 cores and Arm TrustZone technology for industrial, building automation, Internet of Things (IoT…

Wireless Platform Enables Next-Generation Connected Products Advancing the IoT Wireless Platform Enables Next-Generation Connected Products Advancing the IoT

Silicon Labs has announced the next gen Series 2 SoCs of its Wireless Gecko platform for Smart Home and Industrial IoT Applications with Best-in-Class Security and RF Performance. The Series 2 portfolio products include EFR32MG21 SoCs supporting multiprotocol, Zigbee, Thread and Bluetooth mesh networking, and EFR32BG21 SoCs supports Bluetooth Low Energy and Bluetooth mesh.…

NXP i.MX 8M Mini Processors 
for Edge Computing and Machine Learning NXP i.MX 8M Mini Processors 
for Edge Computing and Machine Learning

Mouser Electronics is now stocking the i.MX 8M Mini applications processors from NXP Semiconductors. NXP's first embedded multi-core heterogeneous applications processors built using advanced 14LPC FinFET process technology, the i.MX 8M Mini offers high-performance computing, power efficiency, and embedded security for edge node computing, streaming multimedia, voice…

Touch-Free UI Solutions with capacitive Touch-Key Microcontroller for 2D/3D Gesture Control Touch-Free UI Solutions with capacitive Touch-Key Microcontroller for 2D/3D Gesture Control

Renesas Electronics launched two new touch-free user interface(UI) solutions which are based on Renesas’s capacitive sensor microcontrollers (MCUs) and support the development of UI that allows users to operate home appliances, as well as industrial and OA equipment without touching the devices. It will simplify the design of 2D and 3D control-based applications along with…

NXP’s NXH3670 Wireless Gaming Headphone Solution for High-Performance Audio Streaming NXP’s NXH3670 Wireless Gaming Headphone Solution for High-Performance Audio Streaming

Mouser Electronics is now stocking the NXH3670 wireless gaming headphone solution from NXP® Semiconductors. The ultra-low-power single-chip device is a 2.4 GHz wireless transceiver with an embedded microcontroller and a proprietary audio streaming protocol to create a solution for gaming headset applications. The NXH3670 is Bluetooth Low Energy 4.2 certified and supports…

Arm Cortex-M4-based Microcontrollers with built-in timers and communication Channels Arm Cortex-M4-based Microcontrollers with built-in timers and communication Channels

Toshiba Electronics announced new M4G Group (1) Arm Cortex-M-based microcontrollers with high-performance analog circuits. The Microcontroller comes with a wide range of timers, communication channels and is available in a rich lineup of packages from 100 to 177 pins. The microcontrollers are focused on the application areas such as for office automation (OA) equipment,…