Renesas RX231 Family are Low-Power MCUs with DSP and FPU

Renesas has a family of microcontrollers (MCUs) that are low-power with enhanced DSP and FPU. They are a 32-bit RXv2 CPU core group, that leverages the optimal core value and improved DSP/FPU. The group has low-power consumption technology helping with realizing advanced power efficiency.

They carry high-performance digital filtering, floating point operation, as well as other processing that can be performed where the current supply is low.

Raspberry Pi Pico W is an Inexpensive MCU with Wi-Fi

Over the summer of 2022, Raspberry Pi introduced a new Pico, the W, at $6 instead of $4. But the Pico W is sporting an 802.11n Wi-Fi radio, giving it a boost over the earlier model. It can run more Internet of Things (IoT) projects, over the network.

The hardware is basically the same as the Pico model from last year. The Pico microcontroller runs an RP2040 chip of the company’s own design. The Pico W is more expensive and the jump up to 50% increase over the earlier model can run costly if your company is buying a mountain of these little workhorses.

The PIC32CXMT Family of MCU Streamline Smart Meter and Infrastructure Dev.

Microchip announced the PIC32CXMT family of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCU) combined with a new MPL460 Power Line Communications (PLC) modem.

The new MCU devices are smart meter platforms for next-generation controls for industrial IoT, and commercial and industrial metering applications. It is increased performance with up to 200 MHz operation and broad scalability with up to 560 KB of memory (SRAM).

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The Advancement of MCUs

The latest Microcontrollers are becoming more advanced with every quarter of the year. This is happening across the board at several different larger companies and manufacturers. As more devices are beginning to use hardware-assisted security and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Just in the past month, NXP announced a new series of MCUs utilizing Matter standard of interoperability across over 280 companies and device manufacturers.

This is changing the landscape of the processing and controller units in significant ways. The internet of things is developing into a trillion dollar industry with billions of end-point devices filling the world.

This is relying more heavily on AI and Deep Learning, in areas like Medicine and Wearables. The smart home and city are becoming a reality with all the necessary device enhancements, and need MCUs that can handle the greater compute needs of devices that are using heavy inference routines

The industry is changing the world and with it our lives and desires.

Join us next week as we take a dive into what is happening with our IoT Technology. I am always available for questions just reach out to product-editor@circuitcellar.com

Gateway MiniPC equipped with Celeron CPU and dual GbE ports

The T8 Pro is a MiniPC featuring a 15W Celeron N5095 processor along with Intel UHD Graphics. This device provides support for up to three 4K displays, dual GbE ports, Wi-Fi 5, and a couple of USB 3.1 ports.

Similarly to the BMAX seen a couple of days ago, the T8 Pro is only available with the following 11th-Gen Celeron CPU