Ramtron announced the availability of the FM25256, a 256Kb non-volatile ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) product, with a serial peripheral interface (SPI), that is designed for wide voltage operation. According to Ramtron it is the highest-performance SPI memory available with 20 MHz NoDela...

The Universal Debug Engine (UDE) 1.12 of pls Programmierbare Logik & Systeme GmbH supports the world of ARM7 and ARM9 microcontrollers. The latest Version of this debug and test tool provides a variety of features as e.g. a Graph Window for display of pre-processed data from the target in two-dimens...

The manufacturer of microprocessor development tools Lauterbach announced that it now offers kernel awareness for the real time operating system LynxOS-178 from LynuxWorks, Inc. LynxOS-178 is a hard real-time, POSIX conformant OS, that is certifiable by DO-178B level A. Customers of TRACE32 receive ...

Microchip has expanded its SPI serial EEPROM product line with two high-density (256 Kbit), high-speed (up to 10 MHz) devices, the 25AA256 and 25LC256.

The 25LC256 operates over a 2.5 to 5.5 Volt range, while the 25AA256 device operates over an extended 1.8 to 5.5 Volt range. The devices are ava...

STMicroelectronics has introduced a reference design platform for electronic power meters. The reference platform provides a modular solution that can be adapted by software to meet the utility company’s particular needs. It comprises two printed circuit boards, one dedicated to the mains power meas...

Texas Instruments and Unibrain announced an turnkey 1394b (FireWire) development kit. TI has licensed Unibrain’s ubCore version 4.0 FireWire driver suite that will be bundled with TI’s 1394b chipset (TSB82AA2 and TSB81BA3).

The Unibrain driver stack is a set of low-level drivers with a top-down l...