Microprocessors

Infineon has augmented touch sensing and liquid level sensing it a new series of MCUs. Devices in the 4000T family have hardware and software to implement: enhanced capacitive touch sensing, inductive touch sensing and capacitive liquid sensing. “Developers now have endless possibilities to develop new HMI and sensing solutions, from sleek metallic designs with touch-on-metal buttons, to waterproof touch-buttons and ...

To be announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, MediaTek has filled out its latest generation of phone processors. Positioned under its flagship Dimensity 9400 and premium 8400, the new 7400 and 7400X are optimised for gaming and AI camera processing. Built on TSMC’s 4nm process, both 7400 chips have an octa-core CPU: 4x 2.6GHz Arm Cortex-A78 cores and 4x ...

Silicon Labs has announced a pair of Bluetooth-enabled microcontroller families, to be available in Q2 this year: BG22L (diagram right) devices are aimed at asset tracking tags and personal healthcare devices, and support Bluetooth 5.4 and Bluetooth Direction Finding. Processing power comes from a 38.4MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor with up to 352kbyte of flash and up to 24kbyte of ram ...

For those who wonder if NFC could usefully add function to their products, STMicroelectronics has a neatly-packaged contactless near-field communication development kit with eight snap-out boards to offer a “large set of ready-to-use antenna configurations”, it said. Built around the company’s 4 x 4mm ST25R200 NFC reader/writer IC, the boards within the kit, called STEVAL-25R200SA, plug together to create an ...

Power Integrations added high-temperature motor drive optimisation to its MotorXpert brushless dc motor software suite. “In this version 3.0 release, we have added a two-phase modulation scheme, which is ideal for applications that work in high temperature environments such as hot-water circulation pumps,” said company marketing manager Cristian Ionescu-Catrina. “Version 3.0 also features a five-fold improvement to our waveform visualisation tool ...

Alif Semiconductor has integrated Arm’s Ethos-U85 neural processing unit (NPU) into its second generation of its ‘Ensemble’ microcontrollers for AI and machine learning. It is “the world’s first implementation of the Ethos-U85 in an endpoint AI MCU”, according to Arm IoT general manager Paul Williamson. “With Alif’s high bandwidth memory and power management, [the new parts] support NPU operators required ...

Texas Instruments has announced an in-cabin radar IC for vehicles that includes both RF front-end, signal processing and application processing. Revealed at CES today, AWRL6844 is a 60GHz radar made on a 40nm RF CMOS process and packaged in a 9.1 x 9.1mm BGA. Running AI algorithms locally, it is intended to provide occupancy monitoring for seat belt reminder, child ...

Softbank is out to challenge Nvidia in chips to train and run AI software programmes in a project called Izanagi which could see investment of $100 billion. The plan is to have prototype Izanagi processors in summer 2025 and to be shipping in volume in 2026, reports Bloomberg. Izanagi (pictured) is Japan’s God of creation. Central to the scheme are ...

For embedded processing Raspberry Pi has revealed the 55 x 40mm ‘Compute Module’ form of Raspberry Pi 5. Processing come from a Broadcom BCM2712 with four 2.4GHz Cortex-A76 cores. All connections to Compute Modules are via two high in count connectors – there are no ‘standard’ interface connectors. There are multiple ram and flash options, and an optional wireless module ...

Mouser has introduced its RISC-V resource centre to inform design engineers about the latest technology and applications. Through articles, blogs, eBooks, and products, from Mouser’s technical team and trusted manufacturing partners, engineers are equipped with the knowledge required to design RISC-V applications. The content hub explores how RISC-V is  pushing machine learning (ML) closer to the edge in a wide ...