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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

The cool off period for Freescale continues with a stable portfolio of 578 products.

NXP

In the low-end, NXP is now shifting its portfolio away from M0 and moving on to Cortex-M0+, the so called revision r0p1 includes 7 products in the 50 MHz LPC11U (USB) and LPC11E, adding new LQFP packages for existing parts (the last digits represent the pin count):

  • 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

Desperately no moves at SLAB, this will be one year this month since the acquisition of Energy Micro last year.
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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ST tweaks the portfolio

15

May

2014

After the heat of new products and price changes, it looks like MCU manufacturers are taking a well deserved break this month. Well, maybe except for ST who showed 50+ new products.

 

Atmel

Although Atmel had no new product over the last 30 days, there was a sizable announcement for the maker community on May 15 where the Arduino Zero board was unveiled jointly with Arduino.

It is interesting to see that this new board is the first one to be based on the Cortex-M0+ family and the second Cortex-M based one. All the others are based on the ATMega family. The new board sports a ATSAMD21G18 running at 48 MHz with 256 kB of Flash and 32 kB of RAM.

Freescale

Freescale has entered a cool off period after the frenzy of the last couple of months (KE02/4/6 announcements).
Only one product appeared, the MK22FN128VLH10 while the MK10DN512ZVMC10R was removed.

NXP

Not much change this month to the NXP portfolio

Renesas

Same here for Renesas with another flat line following the announcement in March of the RX64.

SiliconLabs

SLAB continues to work on the portfolio realignment after the acquisition of Energy Micro in June last year.
The portfolio price (EFM and SiM3) is stable this month.

ST Microelectronics

Another interesting month at ST:

    • The STM32F050 is slowly being phased out with all but one part in NRND. That one (STM32F050G6) is in evaluation…
    • Over 53 products were made public this time, here is a recap:
      • F031: higher temperature version of existing parts
      • F100R8H: higher temperature version of existing parts
      • F301: new family in the analog/metering family
      • F302, 303: smaller Flash sizes in existing family: 32 and 64 kB
      • F358: new family focused on analog and metering. Sports 4 analog comparators, 4 ADC, 2 DAC, 72 MHz, and 256 kB Flash for now
      • F378: similar to 358 with more timers, sigma delta ADC, 256 kB Flash for now
      • F429: now offering down to 512 kB Flash, with additional packages
      • L051/052: now with 36 pins

Texas Instruments

TI has done a new silicon revision of its Tiva 129 samples, maybe for existing customers?

In the MSP430 family, 14 new products were uncovered in the 6 family (USB+LCD) as well as 2 series and FRAM.

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