Embedded World = new MCU products
15
Mar
2014
Embedded World has gone, but scores of new products have come!
Most of the major players announced at least a new product or family at the show.
In particular, Renesas continues to invest in its homegrown architectures, and announced an upgrade to its RX architecture, while Atmel, Freescale, NXP and ST flooded the market with even more Cortex-M based parts.
The contrast is also strong in the target markets: FSL and NXP for motor control, Atmel and ST for the low end/low power segments and Renesas for “industrial equipment, network devices, and other applications requiring advanced real-time performance and large-capacity memory”.
Atmel
Atmel announced no less than 3 new products families, all based on the Cortex M0+ with a little over 30 parts.
- The 48MHz D21 supports USB host/device and spans 32 to 256 kB of Flash.
- The D11 only spans 8-16kB of Flash and keeps a USB device-only…
- while the D10 lacks USB connectivity.
Interestingly, all 3 families provide capacitive touch channel support. Samples and tools will be available by June this year.
Freescale
MKV10 is priced from $1.18 to $1.27 in 10k units. It sport 2 16-bit ADC and a 12-bit DAC.
NXP
This is an area where there is quite some competition with e.g. Freescale Kinetis V and TI MSP430 or C2000.
The new family supports brushless DC (BLDC) motors, permanent-magnet synchronous motors (PMSM), and AC induction motors (ACIM).
The LPC15 includes 2 12-bit 2Msps ADC as well as a QEI and 4 analog comparators. 13 products were announced from 64 to 256kB of Flash, CAN while the top of the line LPC154 includes a USB port.
Silicon and boards are available now with the silicon priced at $1.91 to $3.25 per 10k. Interestingly, FSL’s Kinetis V is not directly competing with the LPC15 just now as it only embeds 16 or 32 kB of Flash.Renesas
Another family annoucement at Embedded World came from Renesas: the new RX64 is powered by the new RX v2 core that boasts a 1.6x performance improvement over the RX v1 core as well as a 40% reduction in power consumption.
64 parts were uncovered at the show.
Contrary to all the other annoucements, Renesas is pursuing the high end market with the RX64, namely the industrial equipment, network devices, and other applications requiring advanced real-time performance and large-capacity memory.
Although no new RL78 family was announced, over 30 products appeared this month.
SiliconLabs
ST Microelectronics
The Cortex M0+ STM32L0 also added over 20 products.
Finally, an additional 9 products, mostly in the F0 family (Cortex M0) completed this active month.
Texas Instruments
TI has been fairly quiet this month with only a handful of MSP430 part numbers appearing.
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