Circuit Cellar's ongoing mission is to provide important information to help you make smart choices with your engineering projects; from prototype to production. As part of that effort, we're now offering themed newsletter content each week that focuses on critical areas of system development. Our new, enhanced weekly Circuit Cellar Newsletter will cover these four areas every month: Microcontroller Watch | IoT Technology Focus | Embedded Boards | Analog & Power. This newsletter keeps you up-to-date on the latest microcontroller news. We examine microcontroller product news, design wins, software advances, and more. Cypress MCUs Selected for Toyota Camry Instrument Cluster Cypress Semiconductor announced that global automotive supplier DENSO has selected Cypress' Traveo automotive microcontroller (MCU) family and FL-S Serial NOR Flash memory family to drive the advanced graphics in its instrument cluster for the 2017 Toyota Camry. The DENSO instrument cluster uses Traveo devices that Cypress says were the industry's first 3D-capable ARM Cortex-R5 cluster MCUs. The FL-S memory in the cluster is based on Cypress' proprietary MirrorBit NOR Flash process technology, which enables high density serial NOR Flash memory by storing 2 bits per cell. The DENSO instrument cluster has 4.2" and 7.0" screens capable of audio, video and navigation in the center display of the 2017 Toyota Camry.CONTINUE READING
Microchip Launches Two New MCU Families Microchip Technology has made available its new SAM D5x and SAM E5x microcontroller families. These new 32-bit MCU families offer extensive connectivity interfaces, high performance and robust hardware-based security for a variety of applications. The SAM D5/E5 MCUs combine the performance of an ARM Cortex-M4 processor with a Floating Point Unit (FPU). This combination offloads the Central Processing Unit (CPU), increasing system efficiency and enabling process-intensive applications on a low-power platform. Running at up to 120 MHz, the D5x and E5x MCUs feature up to 1 MB of dual-panel flash with Error Correction Code (ECC), easily enabling live updates with no interruption to the running system. These families are also available with up to 256 KB of SRAM with ECC, which is vital to mission-critical applications such as medical devices or server systems. CONTINUE READING Win a Free Subscription to Circuit Cellar Magazine Enter this drawing for a free subscription to Circuit Cellar!
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NXP to Make Security Chips in Its US Facilities
NXP Semiconductors has announced a $22 million program that expands its operations in the United States, enabling the company's US facilities to manufacture security chips for government applications that can support critical US national and homeland security programs. Upon completion of the expansion project, NXP facilities in Austin, TX and Chandler, AZ will be certified to manufacture finished products that exceed the highest domestic and international security and quality standards. NXP R&D manufacturing facilities in San Jose, Austin and Chandler have also undergone a thorough security site certification process to produce Common Criteria EAL6+ SmartMX microcontroller family products. Common Criteria is an international set of guidelines and specifications developed for evaluating information security products to ensure they meet a rigorous security standard for government deployments CONTINUE READING ST Developers Conference: Coming September 6th Participation is Free. Register to Attend. With 5 parallel tracks and over 40 different topics-plus 2 rooms of hands-on trainings, the ST Developers Conference is designed to give the attendees the topics they need to get the most out of the day. This conference, to be held on September 6, 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, brings together experts in markets that are poised for rapid growth in the coming years: Smart Driving, IoT, Smart Things and Smart Home, and City & Industry. REGISTER HERE
Renesas Dev Kit Enables Cars to Express Their Emotions
Microcontroller vendor Renesas Electronics has announced that it has developed a development kit for its R-Car that takes advantage of "emotion engine," an artificial sensibility and intelligence technology pioneered by cocoro SB Corp. The new development kit enables cars with the sensibility to read the driver's emotions and optimally respond to the driver's needs based on their emotional state. The development kit includes cocoro SB's emotion engine, which was developed leveraging its sensibility technology to recognize emotional states such as confidence or uncertainty based on the speech of the driver. The car's response to the driver's emotional state is displayed by a new driver-attentive user interface (UI) implemented in the Renesas R-Car system-on-chip (SoC). Since it is possible for the car to understand the driver's words and emotional state, it can provide the appropriate response that ensures optimal driver safety. CONTINUE READING ST Deploys Low-Layer Software for All STM32 MCUs STMicroelectronics has completed the introduction of its free Low-Layer Application Programming Interface (LL API) software to the STM32Cube software packages for all STM32 microcontrollers. The LL APIs enable expert developers to work within the convenient and easy-to-use STMCube environment, and optimize their code down to the register level using ST-validated software for faster time to market. The combination of LL APIs and Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) software in all STM32Cube packages now gives developers complete flexibility when choosing how to control device peripherals. They can leverage the HAL's ease of use and portability or use LL APIs to optimize performance, code footprint, and power consumption. Code examples tailored to run on the associated STM32 Nucleo board provide templates that simplify porting to other STM32 MCUs.
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Circuit Cellar #325: August 2017
Q&A: Krste Asanovic on RISC-V | Power Supplies for Guitar Amps | Design Example: Cypress PSoC | Firmware Upgrade on Microchip PIC32MZ | Reliability and Failure Prediction | PID Temp Control for a Meat Smoker | Inside Electronic Locks | How to Break DES Encryption | Fully Differential Amplifiers | Wi-Fi to the Danger Zone
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