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 Renesas' RE01 Family Embedded Controllers New Low Power Embedded Controllers with 256 kB Flash Memory for Compact Portable Designs

The Renesas Electronics Corporation has introduced a new 256kilobyte(KB) flash memory variant to the RE01 Family embedded controllers that include the 1.5 megabytes (MB) flash memory embedded controller. The new ultra-low power consumption controller is designed based on the breakthrough silicon-on-thin-buried-oxide (SOTB) process technology and it is built around the Arm…

Maxim's MAX3260 Arm Cortex M4 Microcontroller Compact and Low Power Arm Cortex M4 Microcontrollers for Industrial and IoT Applications

Maxim Integrated has released the MAX3260, a low-power Arm Cortex-M4 Microcontroller (MCU) with a floating-point unit. The device protects all embedded memory for both flash and SRAM with error-code correction (ECC) for providing the highest reliability at a power consumption of 40µW/MHz. The MAX32670 executes commands for flash at 40% lower power and It is the lowest power…

STMicroelectronics STM32 and STM8 Controllers STM32 and STM8 Controllers get Functional Safety Packages for Safety Critical Applications

STMicroelectronics has released three functional-safety packages that simplify the development of safety-critical industrial, medical, consumer, and automotive products based on STM32 and STM8 microcontrollers and microprocessors.

The packages are available free of charge and contain the resources developers need to satisfy applicable IEC and ISO…

VectorBlox Accelerator FPGA Software Development Kit VectorBlox Accelerator – New FPGA Software Development Kit for Low Power Embedded Solution

Microchip Technology Inc. has introduced the VectorBlox Accelerator Software Development Kit (SDK) to meet the growing need for power-efficient inferencing in edge application by making it easier for software developers to implement their algorithms in PolarFire field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). By using the SDK developers can use the PolarFire FPGAs for creating low-…

RA4W1 ArmCortex M4 Microcontroller 32-bit Arm Cortex M4 Microcontrollers with integrated Bluetooth 5.0 for Secured IoT Devices

Renesas introduced the RA4W1 microcontroller (MCU) with an integrated Bluetooth 5.0 Low Energy radio, which includes a 48 MHz, 32-bit ArmCortex M4 core and Bluetooth 5.0 core delivered in a 56-pin QFN package. The RA4W1 MCU allows the designers to develop safe and secured IoT endpoint devices for Industry 4.0, building automation, metering, healthcare, consumer wearable…

Microchip's AVR DA Microcontrollers New AVR DA Microcontrollers for Real-time Control, Connectivity, and HMI Applications

Microchip announced the new AVR DA family of microcontrollers (MCUs), its first Functional Safety Ready AVR MCU family with Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC). The Functional safety ready designation is applied to devices that incorporate the latest safety features and are supported by safety manuals, Failure Modes, Effects, and Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA…

Semaphore and Mutex in FreeRTOS with Arduino Arduino FreeRTOS Tutorial 3- Using Semaphore and Mutex in FreeRTOS with Arduino

In previous tutorials, we have covered the basics of FreeRTOS with Arduino and the Queue kernel object in FreeRTOS Arduino. Now, in this third FreeRTOS tutorial, we will learn more about FreeRTOS and its advance APIs, which can make you understand the multi-tasking platform more deeply.

Semaphore and Mutex (Mutual Exclusion) are the kernel objects…

RX72N and RX66N 32-bit Microcontrollers 32-bit Microcontrollers from Renesas for Real-Time Performance in Industrial Applications

Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced the two new group of 32-bit microcontrollers, namely the RX72N Group and RX66N Group, these MCUs combines equipment control and networking function on a single chip. With the RXv3 CPU core, the RX72N operates at a maximum frequency of 240MHz with two Ethernet channels, and the RX66N operates at a maximum frequency of 120 MHz…

Arduino FreeRTOS using Queues Arduino FreeRTOS Tutorial 2- Using Queues in Arduino FreeRTOS

In the previous tutorial, we introduced FreeRTOS in Arduino Uno and created a task for the blinking LED. Now, in this tutorial, we will dive more into advance concepts of RTOS APIs and learn about communication between different tasks. Here we also learn about Queue to transfer data from one task to another and demonstrate the working of queue APIs by interfacing 16x2 LCD…

FreeRTOS Task for Blink LED in Arduino UNO Arduino FreeRTOS Tutorial 1 - Creating a FreeRTOS task to Blink LED in Arduino Uno

The OS present inside the embedded devices is called an RTOS (Real-Time Operating System). In embedded devices, real-time tasks are critical where timing plays a very important role. Real-time tasks are Time Deterministic means the response time to any event is always constant so that it can be guaranteed that any particular event will occur at a fixed time. RTOS is designed…

STM32L4x5 Ultra Low Power Microcontrollers STM32L4x5 – New Ultra Low Power Microcontrollers for Industrial, Medical and Smart Home Applications

STMicroelectronics has introduced new STM32L4P5 and STM32L4Q5 Microcontrollers (MCU) that bring the performance of the Arm Cortex-M4 core to cost-sensitive and power-conscious smart connected devices, including utility meters, industrial and medical sensors, fitness trackers, and smart-home products. The STM32L4+ MCUs delivers the most economic performance in Compact…

MAX32520 ChipDNA secure Arm Cortex-M4 microcontroller for Financial and Government-grade Security Maxim Introduces Microcontroller with ChipDNA PUF Key Protection Technology for Financial and Government-grade Security

Maxim Integrated introduces the MAX32520 ChipDNA secure Arm Cortex-M4 microcontroller, the first secure microcontroller with built-in physically unclonable function (PUF) technology for financial- and government-grade security.  Maxim’s PUF technology allows for multiple layers of protection to provide the most advanced key-protection technology in a cost-effective…