Inspiring the Evolution of Embedded Design

February 11, 2020

Microcontroller Watch

MPLAB MCU Tools Achieve

Safety Certification

Microchip Technology has announced TÜV SÜD certification of its MPLAB XC compilers for functional safety, significantly simplifying the functional safety qualification process for Microchip’s PIC, AVR and SAM MCUs and dsPIC DSCs.

BLE MCUs Offer Multiprotocol RF and NFC Options

NXP Semiconductors has announced the availability of its QN9090 and QN9030 Bluetooth 5 SoCs with hardware compatible options for 802.15.4, Multiprotocol RF and optional NFC technology.

Floating-Point Library is Optimized RISC-V CPUs

SEGGER has announced that its stand-alone floating-point library is now extended by an assembly-optimized variant for RISC-V. The floating-point library contains the complete set of arithmetic functions, hand coded and fully optimized in assembly language for RISC-V.

Build a Self-Correcting LED Clock

Have you seen this beautiful clock in Lower Manhattan? These Cornell students emulated this clock design by building a desktop-sized prototype of a Digital WWVB clock using a Microchip PIC32 MCU, an external oscillator and a display.

Low-Power Arm Cortex-M7 MCUs Boast 1.4MB RAM

STMicroelectronics’ has released its STM32H7A3, STM32H7B3, and STM32H7B0 MCUs combine that 280MHz Arm Cortex-M7 core performance, high memory density and power savings for future generations of smart objects. Keeping power consumption low, and starting from economical 64-pin QFP packages, the new MCUs boost integration and real-time performance.