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Infineon Technologies and Fairchild Semiconductor have announced a licensing agreement on Infineon's automotive MOSFET packaging technology H-PSOF (heatsink plastic small outline flat lead), a JEDEC standard TO-leadless package. T... More about Packaging Licence Agreement

Silicon oscillator technology offers an all-CMOS alternative to quartz crystal oscillators. ATOC (Accurate Timing Oscillator Circuit) technology is offered by eoSemi. The company is shipping pre-commercial versions now. Proprietar... More about CMOS Oscillator Alternatives

Offering at least 50% less power consumption than any microcontroller in the industry, the MXP430, codenamed Wolverine, will begin sampling next month, says Texas Instruments. Power consumption is 360nA in real-time clock mode and... More about Low Power Microcontrollers

The FM3 family of 32bit RISC microcontrollers will be the focus of the Fujitsu Embedded World stand. The devices have CAN and USB2.0 functionality and support the industry's first two-channel Ethernet MAC (media access controller)... More about Industrial Microcontroller

In what the company claims is an industry-first demonstration, Texas Instruments has announced an RF SoC that integrates an IEEE 802.15.4 (2.4GHz) radio, an ARM Cortex-M3 processor, dedicated Smart Energy (SE) 2.0 hardware securit... More about Integrated RF ZigBee SoC

Optimised for Android 4.0, ZiiLABS believes its 100-core ZMS-40 processor is ground-breaking. It combines 96 of the company's StemCell media processing cores, double the number in the company's previous processor, with four 1.5GHz... More about 100-Core Media Processor

Claimed to be the industry's first signal-only isolated CAN transceiver to provide an isolation rating to 5kVrms with 125˚C operation, the ADM3054 offers isolated power-detect in an integrated, single-surface-mount package capable... More about Signal-only Transceiver

Five devices from Broadcom use the company's BroadR-Reach technology which is claimed to be the world's first series of Ethernet automotive products to deliver 100Mbit/s, reduce connectivity costs adn cabling weight. According to ... More about Five Ethernet Switches

Three models within the Audo Max microcontrollers from Infineon have SHE (secure hardware extension). The 32bit microcontrollers are claimed to extend the tamper-proofing of ECUs (electronic control units) and protect against tuni... More about Tamper-Proof 32bit Microcontrollers

TPMs (Trusted Platform Modules) are part of a trusted computing ecosystem, where the secure processor is mounted on the computer motherboard to protect against software attacks, theft or tampering. It guards sensitive data such as... More about Trusted Platform Device

Combining an NFC (near field communications) controller and a secure element to store personal information and security keys with advanced encryption technologies, the SENHRN1 is a Secu-NFC chip from Samsung. As NFC is increasingl... More about Mobile Payment NFC Chip

Texas Instruments claims that it has created the industry's first 65nm Cortex-M microcontrollers, with the first 40 devices available in the Stellaris Cortex-M4F microcontrollers. The low power, floating point devices are code-com... More about First 65nm Cortex-M MCUs

Receive front-end modules to implement GNSS (global navigation satellite system) functionality in smartphones and other handheld devices, such as tablet PCs, digital cameras and watches. Infineon claims that the BGM103xN7 devices ... More about Three Receive Front-End Modules

Targeting the cost-sensitive car navigation and multimedia systems in high-end car radios, Renesas Electronics has added the R-Car E1 to its range of R-Car SoCs. They offer low power consumption, says the company, and are powered ... More about Power-Sensitive Multimedia SoCs

Vehicle manufacturers are advocating CAN partial networking to increase automotive power efficiency. NXP Semiconductors has announced the first NWP ISO 11898-6 and AUTOSAR R3.2.1 compliant solution supporting CAN partial networkin... More about Partial Networking Support

Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe has announced that it has added the MB9EF126 Calypso SoC to its FCR4 family. It is based on ARM's Cortex-R4 core and operates at up to 160MHz and has more than 200DMIPS processing performance. The SoC ... More about Flash, EEflash and VRAM SoC

Claimed to be the industry's only complete HDMI 1.4 signal-conditioning and protection IC, the IPC4786CZ32 is available from NXP Semiconductors. The company claims that it provides the industry's highest protection for HDMI 1.4 tr... More about HDMI Signal Condition IC

IC design service company, EnSilica and Evatronix, the Polish silicon IP provider, have collaborated to produce eSi-RISC processor SoCs incorporating USB 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0 connectivity. The IP, including support for USB OTG, has be... More about SoC Range has USB Options

Enova Technology claims that its ninth generation X-Wall DX processor is the first true, real-time hardware encryption processor for USB mass storage class devices. The hardware, full disk encryption processor encrypts all USB mas... More about Ninth Generation Processor

Two microcontrollers from Toshiba are for electronic control units compliant with the safety standard ISO 26262. The TMPM350FDTFG is for electric power steering control and the TMPM354F10TFG is for control of drive motors of hybri... More about Microcontrollers Comply To ISO 26262

The patent-pending HyperGear technology from IDT monitors output load dynamically to adjust the CPU voltage in high frequency voltage regulators used in computing. It also adjusts peripheral bias voltage, and CPU clocking frequenc... More about Architecture Monitoring Technology

An automotive-grade three-phase MOSFET pre-driver IC, the A4933, is available from Allegro MicroSystems Europe for the control of brushless DC motors in electronic power steering systems, engine cooling fans, transmission actuator... More about Three-phase MOSFET Pre-Driver IC

SoCs for set-top boxes have been introduced by Renesas Electronics. The EMMA3SE/P integrates functions necessary to receive digital broadcasts, including the ability to decode (decompress) digital video and audio signals and pictu... More about SoCs for Set-Top Boxes

The AMP (Advanced Multiprocessing) series of embedded communications processors is made up of the next-generation of Freescale's QorIQ multicore series. The processors incorporate a mulit-threaded 64bit Power Architecture core, a ... More about Multi-Threaded Architecture