| TI bestows innovative microcontroller design awards
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2010-10-04 |
| Texas Instruments Inc. bestows DesignStellaris awards for innovative microcontroller designs |
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| Jennic pushes Zigbee compliant microcontroller
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2005-09-07 |
| Fabless semiconductor company Jennic has started sampling and producing in volume a single chip Zigbee compliant wireless microcontroller |
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| Toshiba extends microcontroller portfolio
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2010-09-30 |
| Toshiba has licensed ARM's ultra-low-power ARM Cortex-M0 processor to its microcontroller portfolio |
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| Insight into the Stellaris microcontroller family
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2011-01-04 |
| Jean Anne Booth shares the vision behind the acquisition of Luminary Micro and integration of the Stellaris MCU family into the TI portfolio. |
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| NXP acquires Sharp ARM-based MCU product biz
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2007-07-11 |
| NXP's acquisition of Sharp's BlueStreak microcontroller product portfolio expands NXP's extensive ARM Powered microcontroller portfolio to 50 products |
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| Frost & Sullivan: MCU market to hit $22.7B
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2006-07-27 |
| According to market researcher Frost & Sullivan, the global microcontroller market reached Rs.62,787.10 crore ($13.7 billion) last year, and is expected to rise further to Rs.1,04,034.10 ($22.7 billion) in 2009 |
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| Microchip taps MIPS32 M14K core family
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2010-11-04 |
| Microchip Technology has tapped the MIPS32 M14K core for the expansion of its 32bit microcontroller family |
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| 16bit MCU portfolio targets performance, cost goals
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2005-11-21 |
| In the advent of more complex electronic design requirements from customers for increased speed, efficiency and performance, chipmakers jumped on the 32bit bandwagon for microcontroller-intensive applications |
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| Maxim acquires Innova Card
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2009-01-28 |
| Maxim has acquired a fabless semi company focusing on secure microcontroller technology for financial terminals |
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| Turkey taps NXP for contactless highway toll system
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2010-06-18 |
| NXP Semiconductors contactless microcontroller IC, MIFARE Plus powers Turkey's highway card-based automated toll scheme, Kartli Geçis Sistemi (KGS |
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| Does Renesas' roadmap worry rivals?
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2010-05-13 |
| Renesas Electronics Corp. has outlined its microcontroller roadmap, revealing plans to deluge the market with a variety of products based on its new architecture |
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| Zigbee vet strives to reduce cost
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2007-03-01 |
| Wireless microcontroller specialist Jennic is putting the marker down for next-generation Zigbee-compliant devices at sub-Rs.90.64 ($2) prices in 100,000-plus units |
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| How are microcontrollers changing?
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2008-08-05 |
| For a system designer choosing a microcontroller, today's available MCUs can make the search quite complex |
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| USB-IF certifies Atmel Flash MCU's USB 2.0 interface
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2006-01-12 |
| Atmel Corp. has announced that it has been granted certification by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) for its AT91SAM7S64 ARM-based 32-bit Flash microcontroller |
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| IAR, Renesas sign deal for MCU tools
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2008-05-21 |
| IAR Systems and Renesas Technology have signed a software development agreement for the latter's new microcontroller family |
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| ST achieves EAL5+ certification for 32-bit smart card MCU
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2005-08-02 |
| STMicroelectronics announced that the established ST22L128 32-bit secure microcontroller has received 'Common Criteria' security certification at Evaluation Assurance Level EAL5+ (Augmented |
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| Atmel to sell secure MCU business
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2010-05-06 |
| Inside Contactless has made an offer of a cash purchase for Atmel's Secure Microcontroller Solutions business |
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| Avnet, Atmel, Battery Tech develop laptop computer batteries
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2005-09-23 |
| Avnet Electronics Marketing, a division of Avnet Inc., and Atmel Corp. in conjunction with Battery Technology Inc.'s internal engineering department, created a new line of batteries for laptop computers that rely on Atmel's AVR line of microcontrollers. The AVR features RISC-based processor core and low power 8-bit flash memory microcontroller |
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| Renesas completes MCU production facility
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2010-02-05 |
| Renesas Technology Corp. has completes a new facility to increase microcontroller production capacity at the back-end process plant of Renesas Semiconductor (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (RSB), in Beijing, China |
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| Germany taps NXP chip for national ID card
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2010-08-23 |
| German Federal Ministry of the Interior has tapped NXP Semiconductors NV's SmartMX secure contactless microcontroller chip in the next issue of its contactless national identity card |
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| Fraunhofer to provide design support for Atmel's MCU based chip
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2007-11-29 |
| Atmel Corp. and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits have announced a collaboration to develop SoCs based on Atmel's AT91CAP ARM-based customisable microcontroller |
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| Data I/O, Microchip sign marketing agreement
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2005-12-02 |
| Data I/O, a provider of manual and automated programming systems, and Microchip Technology, a supplier of microcontroller and analogue semiconductors, announced that they have completed a strategic marketing alliance agreement that will further develop their respective and mutual customer bases |
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| Renesas confirms silicon success on automotive MCU
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2005-08-03 |
| Renesas Technology Corp. has achieved first-pass silicon success on a car audio microcontroller developed using Magma Design Automation Inc.'s software |
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| TI delivers low-power RF protocol
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2007-09-17 |
| TI has announced the release of a low-power RF protocol, designed for easy implementation with minimal microcontroller resource requirements |
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| Automotive MCUs get flexible
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2008-06-17 |
| A flexible microcontroller is cost-effective and may be specified exactly to customer requirements |
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| Renesas supports DALI standards
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2010-12-09 |
| Renesas, a new member of the DALI AG, says it will help in developing DALI specifications and standards through standardised and cost-effective microcontroller-based solutions |
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| 2011 MCU market surpasses Rs.72 crore
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2011-03-15 |
| According to Databeans, the 2011 microcontroller market will surpass Rs.72,769.44 crore ($16 billion) or a 9 per cent revenue growth |
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| Tiempo authorised for DPA-resistant IP core solutions
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2010-09-28 |
| Cryptography Research Inc. authorises IP core designer Tiempo SAS to use the company's differential power analysis countermeasure know-how to offer secure and power efficient microcontroller and cryptoprocessor IP cores |
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| Fujitsu taps SpringSoft for automotive MCU solutions
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2011-01-17 |
| Fujitsu's automotive business unit taps SpringSoft's Certitude Functional Qualification System to develop microcontroller solutions for a range of automotive electronics applications |
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| Atmel remote controller gets Zigbee certified
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2011-01-11 |
| Microcontroller and touch solutions provider Atmel Corp. says its Key Remote Controller has achieved ZigBee certification allowing better control of consumer electronic devices |
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