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May 12, 2020

Microcontroller Watch

AVR MCU Boasts Safety-Ready Features

Microchip Technology has announced its next generation AVR DA family of MCUs, its first Functional Safety Ready AVR MCU family with Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC). Microchip’s Functional Safety Ready designation is applied to devices that incorporate the latest safety features and are supported by safety manuals, Failure Modes, Effects, and Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA) reports, and in some cases, diagnostic software.

STM32Cube MCU Software is Free on GitHub

STMicroelectronics is now publishing STM32Cube embedded software on GitHub, the popular cloud-based service. This opens the STM32 software up to collaborative and community-friendly development and leverages faster, more efficient distribution of updates, says ST.

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Jump-Start Your AI-Based FPGA Application

AI is conquering more and more applications and areas of life: image detection and classification, translation and recommendation systems, to name just a few. The volume of applications being built on Machine Learning technology is large and growing. By utilizing a standard System on Module (SOM), that combines an FPGA with an Arm processor, it has never been so easy to utilize the power of AI offline and on the edge.

Low-Power MCU Embeds

Arm Cortex-M33

NXP Semiconductors has announced the availability of its LPC551x/S1x MCU family, further extending its performance-efficient LPC5500 MCU series. The LPC551x/S1x MCU family offers developers low power consumption, embedded security, pin-, software- and peripheral-compatibility to accelerate time-to-market.

Smart Pet Collar Uses GPS and Wi-Fi

Microchip’s PIC32 MCU has proven effective for myriad applications, so why not a dog collar? Learn how these Cornell graduates built a GPS-enabled pet collar prototype. The article discusses the hardware peripherals used in the project, the setup and the software.

MCU Combines Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth 5.0

Renesas Electronics has introduced its first RA MCU with an integrated Bluetooth 5.0 Low Energy radio. The single-chip RA4W1 MCU includes a 48MHz, 32-bit Arm Cortex-M4 core and Bluetooth 5.0 core delivered in a 56-pin QFN package. Together, the RA4W1 MCU and easy-to-use Flexible Software Package (FSP) enables engineers to immediately begin development with Arm ecosystem software and hardware building blocks that work out-of-the-box with RA MCUs, says Renesas.

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