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This month's issue: Motorola launches two new M-Core based 32-bit microcontrollers Motorola adds Bluetooth baseband to Dragonball processor Microchip releases new 28pin FLASH uC with A/D converter Infineon, Motorola and Agere Systems form Join-Venture to develop and license new DSP Infineon acquires Ericsson Microelectronics and announces new single chip Bluetooth STMicroelectronics Announces MP3 Bluetooth Demonstrator Mitsubishi 16-bit MCU with USB 2.0 Green Hills Software support for NEC 32- and 64-bit controllers Analog Devices announces 32-bit Digital Audio Processor About MicroContoller Pros Corporation
Motorola launches two new M-Core based 32-bit microcontrollers The MMC2113 and MMC2114 are drop-in replacements for the current MMC2107 and
feature
"improved" FLASH erase/write endurance of 1000 cycles (compare this to the
The MMC2113 offers 128 KB Flash and 8 KB of SRAM. The MMC2114 offers 256 KB of Flash
and 32 KB of SRAM. Both of these microcontrollers include 5-volt tolerant I/O.
33 MHz over a temperature range of -40 C to 85 C.
Motorola adds Bluetooth baseband to Dragonball processor The fifth generation Dragonball MX1 processor designed in Singapore is only delivered to manufacturers of mobile devices and is priced at $19 in 10k quantities. Clock speed has been increased to 200MHz (from 66MHz on previous Dragonballs). Supposedly available in the second half of this year.
Microchip
releases new 28pin FLASH uC with A/D converter new 28-lead Quad Flat No Leads (QFN) Chip Scale Package (CSP). The PIC16F72 microcontroller features 3.6K bytes of Flash program memory, 128
bytes RAM, Brownout detection/reset (BOR); a watchdog timer (WDT); In-Circuit Serial
Programming
Infineon, Motorola and Agere Systems form Join-Venture to develop and license
new DSP
Infineon acquires Ericsson Microelectronics and announces new single chip
Bluetooth Infineon unveiled its new Bluetooth(TM) Single-Chip, the BlueMoon(TM)
Universal, a single chip BlueMoon Universal is offered at a price below 3.75 US$ in high volume
quantities. First
STMicroelectronics Announces MP3 Bluetooth Demonstrator The headset receives a streaming MP3 audio from a remote Bluetooth-enabled
PDA, decodes The Bluetooth devices in the headset are the radio front-end Rainbow STw5288
and the
Mitsubishi 16-bit MCU with USB 2.0 M30245 Features: 62.5 ns execution time (f(XIN) = 16 MHz); 128 Kbytes Flash;
10 Kbytes RAM;
Green Hills Software support for NEC 32- and 64-bit controllers MULTI 2000 is a complete IDE for embedded applications using C, C++ and Ada
95 languages. ThreadX is a royalty-free real-time operating system optimized for
NEC's VR Series-
Analog
Devices announces 32-bit Digital Audio Processor formats efficiently and accurately, the Melody 32 audio processor implements Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital EX, Dolby Pro Logic II, DTS- ES Extended Surround, DTS Neo:6, SRS Circle Surround II, THX and THX Surround EX, AAC (two-channel, low complexity), MP3 (MPEG1 Audio Layer 3), PCM, Bass and Delay Management-all in 32-bit precision in up to eight channels. The Melody 32 audio processor automatically detects the incoming bit stream and applies the appropriate code downloaded from the boot flash. Analog Devices' Melody 32 audio processor can be ordered under part number ADSST-Melody-32. An evaluation board with an evaluation copy of the software and schematics is priced at $1,250 in single quantities and is currently shipping to qualified customers
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