Inspiring the Evolution of Embedded Design

September 14, 2021

Microcontroller Watch

MCUs Provide HMI Functions for Contactless Systems

Renesas Electronics has introduced the RX671 group of 32-bit MCUs. They provide high-performance, high-functionality single-chip solution with touch sensing and voice recognition capabilities for contactless operation. Part of Renesas’ mainstream RX600 Series, the RX671 MCUs are built around an RXv3 CPU core operating at 120MHz and integrate flash memory supporting fast read access at a clock speed of 60MHz.

Dev Board Supports Mbed OS 6 Enabled IoT MCU

Nuvoton Technology has announced an Mbed OS 6 supported development board for its NuMicro M2354 Series IoT Security MCU for Armv8-M architecture. M2354 Series supports the high-security requirements of IoT devices along with low power performance.

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How to Automate Your Measurements

Oscilloscopes are the tool of choice for every engineer when it comes to measurements. If the instrument can also work as a waveform generator and can do some mathematical calculations on the signals acquired, or allows automated tests, even better.

TRACE32 Supports UPDI on Microchip AVR MCUs

Lauterbach has announced that its TRACE32 debug tools now offer full support for Microchip Technology’s Unified Program and Debug Interface (UPDI) for 8-bit AVR MCUs. This provides users the ability to debug AVR DA, AVR DB and ATtiny devices, which are mostly used for low-power applications. The proprietary UPDI provides full programming and on-chip debugging capabilities via a bidirectional one-wire interface.

Datasheet:

32-bit Microcontrollers

32-bit microcontrollers have become entrenched as the workhorse of today’s embedded systems. These devices serve a wide variety of embedded applications—adding intelligence, security and connectivity to today’s “smart” systems. This Datasheet provides a product album of representative products.

ESP-IDF Upgrade Improves Installation and Tool Support

Espressif Systems has made improvements to ESP-IDF (IoT Development Framework), the software development framework for its ESP32 series of MCUs. The changes are in response to many requests from customers to simplify the ESP-IDF installation process and usage. This article describes recent improvements in those areas.