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256Gop/s MCU for AI at the edge

Steve Bush — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:00:06 +0000

Renesas has introduced a high-end AI MCU family with triple processors and security. The highest spec devices in the ‘RA8P1’ microcontroller family combine a 1GHz Arm Cortex-M85 processor with a ...

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Microchip aims MCU at high-end dc-dc converters

Steve Bush — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:11:13 +0000

Microchip has created a 78ps-resolution 20bit PWM timer block for a series of MCUs for GaN and SiC based dc-dc converters. There are 16 of them to implement 16 power ...

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Cortex-M23 microcontrollers

Steve Bush — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:05:25 +0000

GigaDevice has revealed a family of 48MHz Arm Cortex-M23 microcontrollers. Aimed at industrial use GD32C231, its “Cortex-M23 core architecture offers up to 10% higher performance than Cortex-M0+”, according to the ...

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Capacitive touch sensing in direct-to-battery automotive MCU

Steve Bush — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:01:29 +0000

Infineon has introduced automotive microcontrollers with capacitive touch sensing for sensor and actuator applications. The PSOC 4 HVMS family is built around a 24 or 48MHz Arm Cortex-M0+ processor, with up ...

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i.MX 91 Cortex-A55 in 37 x 39mm system-on-module

Steve Bush — Thu, 29 May 2025 11:44:05 +0000

Myir has announced a 37 x 39mm system-on-module (SoM) built around NXP’s i.MX 91 processor, which has a single 1.4GHz Arm Cortex-A55 core. “This module maintains pin compatibility with Myir’s ...

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£2.5m towards UK’s CHERI-secured MCU

Steve Bush — Mon, 26 May 2025 23:01:42 +0000

UK start-up SCI Semiconductor has raised £2.5m towards developing its security-enhanced microcontroller based on CHERI, a memory securing framework developed by the University of Cambridge and supported by the UK ...

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Infineon shipping MCU for HMI

David Manners — Fri, 23 May 2025 05:00:57 +0000

Infineon is shipping introduces PSOC 4100T Plus, an Arm Cortex-M0+ MCU with Multi-Sense. The chip blends analogue and digital capabilities with 128K Flash, 32K SRAM, and Multi-Sense technology which includes ...

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Huawei chip to take on Hopper

David Manners — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 05:30:22 +0000

Towards the end of May, Huawei is reported by the Wall Street Journal to be intending to sample its Ascend 910D AI processor which is aimed at competing with Nvidia’s ...

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Low-power microcontroller for analogue sensors

Steve Bush — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:24:37 +0000

Microchip is aiming at analogue sensors with a microcontroller that can measure signals while consuming less than 3µA while sleeping with one comparator monitoring an in-coming voltage. Called PIC16F17576, it ...

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Microchip’s 32 LUT programmable logic block for PICs

Steve Bush — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 12:19:27 +0000

Microchip has introduced a 32 logic elements programmable logic array into a microcontroller. Each logic element can simulate AND, OR, NAND or NOR gate, a buffer or inverting buffer, a ...

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