ST steals the show, SiLabs preparing for a new portfolio?
24
Jul
2014
ST is stealing the show again this month with a slew of new products from the 1.8V F0x8 to the higher end F411 with batch acquisition mode. That shouldn’t eclipse the surprise release of 30 new TI Tiva 129 products together with an up-to-30% increase in the price of the Tiva 123. Finally, are we gearing up for a new SLAB portfolio? All the EFM32 prices at major distributors have experienced decreases down to -50% for low volumes. Stay in touch as we monitor the changes on our twitter feed: @KeremiMCU
Atmel
Atmel has released tape and reel parts numbers of its recent SAMD21 (M0+, USB) family, in all 24 part numbers. There also has been new revisions of the datasheets in particular for the D21 where we learn that there is only one DAC instead of 2.
Freescale
Freescale is changing its website this month and the only difference we captured was the removal of the KE02 list of parts, possibly a temporary glitch.
NXP
NXP is depressingly quiet this month, no product move.
Renesas
The R5F10C, D and T RL78 families now count 42 more products in production. All have LFQFP packages, up to 256kB of Flash and no USB port.
SiliconLabs
Datasheets were updated at SiliconLabs that affected Vcc min – going from 1.85V to 1.98V – and power consumption.There was an interesting price change at major distributors carrying SiliconLabs products. All volumes below 500 pieces were down significantly, sometimes down by 50%. Is this another sign that there is an imminent portfolio shuffle?
STMicroelectronics
Surprise, surprise, ST has put another 63 products on the market this month. It follows the announcement in early June of the 1.8V F0x8 and F3x8 MCUs. The F038 and F048 run a 32 kB of Flash Cortex M0 up to 50 MHz with the latter embedding USB. The F058 has 64kB of Flash and finally, the F078 adds more Flash (128kB) while keeping the USB. 18 F0x8 were introduced. The F3x8 uses the Cortex M4, 4 parts were released
The STM32F334 boasts high precision timers to support the power control market. It embeds 72MHz Cortex-M4 core with DSP+FPU and the 11 initial parts declare 16 to 64 kB of Flash.ST also announced the F411 with batch acquisition mode, allowing transfer of data while the CPU is in sleep mode. The STM32F411 carry 256 to 512 kBytes of Flash and up to 128 kBytes of SRAM, 14 devices were released, all with one USB 2.0 OTG full speed.
About a dozen unrelated parts were also made public.
Texas Instruments
Surprisingly, TI released about 30 new Tiva 129 products this month. These are fully featured 120 MHz Cortex M4 devices with 512k/1MB of Flash and up to 2 Ethernet ports. Prices range from $6.67 to $11.10 / 1ku.
There were some nice price increases for the TM4C123 this month on the TI site from +19 to +33% for 80% of this portfolio.
Newsletter |a slow graduation month? not quite!
17
Jun
2014
While the new product buzz wore off at Freescale and ST, we are now seeing more activity at Renesas with new RL78 parts and TI MSP430. NXP seems to initiate a move away from the Cortex-M0 in favor of the more power efficient Cortex-M0+. Finally, ST had a few adjustments with secret part nomenclatures and rev A parts that consume more power…
Atmel
Atmel has been pretty quiet this past month, with no new products. Details are still sketchy on the SAMD10 and D11 (Cortex-M0+ 48MHz), but they should be close to having samples available (stated Q2 in their Feb 2014 announcement).
Freescale
NXP
- LPC11E66JBD48
- LPC11E67JBD64
- LPC11E67JBD100
- LPC11E68JBD48
- LPC11U66JBD48
- LPC11U67JBD64
- LPC11U67JBD100
Renesas
Renesas showed some movement in the RL78 family with 18 new products, all 24MHz, with I2C, ADC and UART but no USB or LCD support, no price given yet and we could not find any announcement either. It doubles the portfolio of the R5F10R family.
- R5F10RB8GFP
- R5F10RBAGFP
- R5F10RBCGFP
- R5F10RF8GFP
- R5F10RFAGFP
- R5F10RFCGFP
- R5F10RG8GFB
- R5F10RGAGFB
- R5F10RGCGFB
- R5F10RJ8GFA
- R5F10RJAGFA
- R5F10RJCGFA
- R5F10RLAGFA
- R5F10RLAGFB
- R5F10RLAGNB
- R5F10RLCGFA
- R5F10RB8GFP
- R5F10RLCGNB
SiliconLabs
The portfolio price (EFM and SiM3) is stable this month.
ST Microelectronics
Ha, ST shows no signs of stopping for the month of May which is traditionally slow in France. Apart from TR suffixes (tape and reel packing) that were added, there were new parts introduced
- STM32F205RET7: +105C version of the 205RET6
- STM32L051K8U6TR: 64kB Flash, 32 MHz Cortex M0+
- STM32L052K6U6TR: Adds a DAC to the 51, 32 kB of Flash
- STM32L151CCT6J: the specific J extension is not described in the nomenclature (only D for different voltages supplies exists no J)
Below are rev A of existing parts. A look at the datasheets shows no significant differences except for the power consumption. Curiously the run mode consumption goes from 185uA/MHz for the regular parts to 230uA/MHz for the A parts.
- STM32L162RCT6A: Cortex-M3 32 MHz USB, LQFP 64
- STM32L162VCT6A: same with 100 pins
Texas Instruments
Tiva kept quiet this month, while TI released 75 new MSP430 products in a few families:
- MSP430FR58/9: 16MHz, 38-48 pins, FRAM from 32 to 64 kB – 65 products
- MSP430F67791: 25MHz, 100 pins, 512 kB Flash, Metering solution – 2 products
- MSP430G2202 : 16MHz, 14-20 pins, 2 kB Flash, capacitive touch – 7 products
- RF430F5978 : 20MHz, 64 pins, 32 kB Flash, RF PHY sub 1GHz – 1 product
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