Microprocessors

Increasing direct business is the aim for Texas Instruments, confirmed EMEA president, Stefan Bruder (pictured). “The goal is to get inhouse manufacturing to 95% by 2030,” he told Electronics Weekly. The company has tripled its Frankfurt product distribution centre to 9,000 sq m, and has two fabs ramping up at present with five others being built in addition to two ...

Teledyne e2v has engineering models of the LX2160-Space 16-core Arm Cortex A72 based SoC processor, enabling early project design, hardware and software validation for space-demanding applications. LX2160-Space engineering models have the same fit/form/function as flight models (FMs). LX2160-Space can be used in many heavy computing applications in Space from Earth Observation Satellites to Early Warning systems and Telecom, including the ...

Texas Instruments has introduced two series of real-time microcontrollers in the run-up to Electronica today. F29H85x series is built on the company’s 64bit C29 DSP core and has an architecture designed with safety and security in mind. “Featuring diagnostics and error-checking mechanisms, the F29H85x series was engineered for compliance with ISO  26262 and IEC 61508 automotive and industrial safety standards, ...

Infineon has added post-quantum cryptography support to 28nm 500MHz automotive processors. Called Aurix TC4Dx, they are rated for ISO/SAE21434 cyber security standards, and are the first members of the first member of the TC4x. They have six cores, with lock-step operation for high-level functional safety – ISO26262 ASIL-D is the target. “With its parallel processing unit, the microcontroller provides a ...

Japanese automotive component supplier Denso, has signed a development license agreement with Californian startup, Quadric for a neural processing unit (NPU). The agreement means Denso will acquire the IP core license for Quadric’s Chimera general purpose NPU (GPNPU). Both companies will co-develop IP for an in-vehicle semiconductor for use in intelligent vehicle systems (ADAS and AD/self-driving) and inter-vehicle and cloud ...

Renesas is aiming at Intel’s Core Ultra 200V series of processors with a pair of power ICs. RAA225019 is a six-phase buck converter, designed to work with IMVP9.2 Lunar Lake processors. Integrated within is the switching controller, power mosfets and current-sensing. “Six phases can be distributed across three outputs – two SVID rails and one auxiliary rail,” said Renesas. “SVID1 ...

Lumissil Microsystems has introduce a speciallist RISC-V microcontroller for touch-controlled LED-based user interfaces, with optional sound feedback. There are two versions: IS31CS9310 for industrial use and AEC-Q100 grade-1 qualified IS32CS9310 for automotive use. An 8 x 12 LED matrix driver is the primary peripheral, with eight PMOS switches and 12 built-in 80mA PWM-controlled current sinks, that allow each LED to ...

Direct Insight is stocking a 68 x 26mm SODIMM carrying ST’s 1.5GHz 64bit dual Arm Cortex-A35 core STM32MP255 – an ST microcontroller with both GPU and NPU. Made by Ka-Ro Electronics, it is called TXMP2. “TXMP2 offers exceptional graphics, video and NPU performance in a full -40 to +85°C temperature-range SoM, and is aimed at industrial human-machine interface solutions plus ...

Mediatek has adopted Arm’s top-end Cortex-X925 CPU in its second-generation ‘all big core’ phone processor – Dimensity 9400, made by TSMC on a 3nm process. The X925 runs at up to 3.63GHz and has 2Mbyte of L2 cache, and shares the IC with three Cortex-X4 cores (1Mbyte L2 cache) and four Cortex-A720 cores (512kbyte L2 cache). These all share 12Mbyte ...

Mouser Electronics is stocking modules that combine Bluetooth and Zigbee radios with a secured microcontroller. Called WBZ350, they are made by Microchip and based on its PIC32CX-BZ family of 32bit wireless MCUs, in this case a PIC32CX5109BZ31032 with a 64MHz Arm Cortex M4F processor. There are two versions: WBZ350PE has an on-board antenna WBZ350UE has a U.FL connector for an ...