Microchip is building on its 80MHz 32-bit PIC32 microcontroller (MCU) portfolio three new families. The PIC32MX5/6/7 families are designed specifically for data-intensive applications running several software stacks simultaneously and are complemented by Microchip’s free software stacks. The familie...

Atmel announced the AT88CK201STK Starter Kit. The kit allows developers to extend secure HF RFID reader capabilities to their embedded microcontroller systems. In many cases, this is the first time developers can easily embed HF RFID reader capability into space constrained embedded systems for prev...

iSYSTEM AG based in Schwabhausen, Germany announces their new generation of development and test tools for embedded software and hardware. The platform called iC5000 On-Chip Analyzer is the product enhancement of iSYSTEM technolgy into one hardware platform. iC5000 is a single hardware and software ...

Freescale is introducing a mini USB interface IC that helps mobile device designers and manufacturers create consumer products by enabling a single mini USB connector for external accessories including chargers, headsets, microphones and audio/data connections. Applications for the MC34825 include n...

Atmel announced the availability of the Xplain evaluation kit for its AVR XMEGA microcontroller family. With a suggested resale price of $29 USD, this kit enables users the ability to evaluate features and system performance of Atmel's XMEGA at a minimum hardware cost. The kit is powered through a m...

STMicroelectronics has announced a robust low-power processor chip dedicated to managing SIM data for machine-to-machine (M2M) cellular communications, a growing market that could account for over 200 million mobile connections by 2013, according to an August 2009 report by Beecham Research. The ST3...