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Atmel Corporation announced that it has licensed the ARM Cortex-M3 32-bit RISC processor for the next generation of its market-leading AT91SAM ARM technology-based microcontrollers. This reinforces Atmel's commitment to the ARM architecture, complementing its existing licenses for the ARM7TDMI, ARM926EJ-S and ARM1176JZ-S processors.

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Renesas Technology Europe announced availability of the latest application specific standard products (ASSP) in its R8C/Tiny series of high performance 16-bit microcontrollers. In additional to over 260 general purpose (GP) devices, the R8C/Tiny series now has several ASSPs, that offer solutions for low end motor control, lighting and small appliances. Four groups of devices have been launched, the R8C/2E-2F and the R8C/2K-2L.

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Atmel Corporation announced the AT91CAP7E, the industry's first ARM7-based MCU with a direct FPGA interface. The AT91CAP7E is a standard microcontroller with an FPGA interface that makes the FPGA look and work like it is on the internal bus of the MCU. It provides customers with a two-chip, no-NRE, FPGA-plus ARM7 solution and offers an engineering-free migration path to a lower cost, and a lower power customizable MCU.

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Freescale Semiconductor, the leading semiconductor supplier to the automotive industry, has expanded its portfolio of Power Architecture microcontrollers (MCUs) to address a broad range of cost-sensitive automotive applications requiring 32-bit performance. The company has introduced three new automotive MCU families optimized for safety, chassis, instrument cluster, body electronics and gateway designs.

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Atmel Corporation,announced two new low power 32-pin tinyAVR microcontrollers, the ATtiny48 and ATtiny88 devices which have 4- and 8-Kbytes of Flash memory, respectively. These AVR microcontrollers consume less than 240 uA at 1.8V and 1 MHz, and below 100 nA in power-down mode and are especially suited for portable and power sensitive systems such as remote control, accessories and small appliances.

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Zilog, Inc. a leading supplier of 8-, 16- and 32-bit embedded Flash microcontrollers, universal remote control and 32-bit ARM(R) core-based application-specific standard products (ASSPs) added a new product to its industry leading, Zatara(TM) family of ARM(R) core-based ASSPs for secure transactions. Offering the very latest PCI PED certification, the new product offers customers more design flexibility, and meets the needs of those customers who require a more integrated security system. It also showcases a new on-chip Dual-Role USB OTG controller and several new security enhancements that strengthen the overall security system against tampering and other attacks.

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STMicroelectronics has added new 8-bit MCUs using its next-generation STM8 core, by introducing the STM8S family specified for the industrial temperature range. The new MCUs combine the core's high speed, performance and code efficiency with versatile peripherals, including a number of specific features for robustness and reliability. Integrated memory, including true EEPROM, simplifies emulation. The STM8S family lowers system cost and development time and increases performance in industrial and appliance applications.

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Renesas Technology Europe has introduced the SH7136F microcontroller line-up that is ideal for the next generation of industrial inverters (motor control), in particular for drives in the range of 1 to 100KW. The SH7136F delivers a CPU performance of 100 Dhrystone MIPS, and is supported by zero-wait MONOS (metal-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon) embedded Flash. This generation of MONOS Flash has just 12.5ns read access time, is 100% deterministic and supports 80MHz operation. The device also has a fast and vectored interrupt response time, another important criteria for deeply embedded real-time systems.

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Somatic Digital, a developer of innovative products for the publishing and print industries, has chosen Freescale Semiconductor's 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) and 9-electrode proximity sensor components for its eTouchBook platform, which the company is providing to the NASA Goddard Flight Center through a U.S. Government contract.

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Texas Instruments Incorporated announced a breakthrough generation of ultra-low power MSP430 microcontrollers (MCU), offering the industry's lowest power consumption for devices that can provide up to 25 MHz peak performance, increased Flash and RAM memory and integrated peripherals such as radio frequency (RF), USB, encryption and LCD interfaces. With as low as 160 uA/MHz (microamp per megahertz) active power consumption and 1.5 uA in standby, MSP430F5xx MCUs enable longer battery life and the ability to use smaller batteries for portable applications, or no batteries at all for energy harvesting systems that run off of solar power, vibration energy or human body temperature.

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