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Power Consumption at 40 and 45 nm
Minimizing Energy Usage in Battery-Powered Microcontroller Systems
The PSP Model in RF CMOS Design
GigOptix Receives Approximately $500,000 Funding to Enable New Era of Ultra Fast Hybrid Silicon-Organic Integrated Circuits Based on Proprietary Polymer
ZURICH --(Business Wire)-- Mar 10, 2010 GigOptix-Helix AG, subsidiary of Palo Alto, CA based GigOptix Inc. (OTCBB: GGOX), a fabless semiconductor company, that provides electronic engines
Microchip Announces New 8-, 14- and 20-pin Enhanced Mid-Range PIC® Microcontrollers (MCUs)
Imec and Synopsys Collaborate on 3D Stacked IC Development
Forte Design Systems Ships Latest Version of CellMath Designer
SiTel and Target Partnership Yields Powerful VoIP DSP
Microchip Announces Higher Memory, Higher Pin Count Expansion of Enhanced 8-bit PIC® Microcontrollers (MCUs)
Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue to Grow 20 Percent in 2010
Dialog Semiconductor and TSMC Collaborate on Industry-Leading BCD Process for Power Management ICs
Open-Silicon and Virage Logic Partner to Deliver Silicon Proven IP for SoC Design
Triad Semiconductor Announces First Mixed-signal ARM Cortex-M0 Processor with 16-bit ADC and 12-bit DAC
Featured Articles
Low Power Design Driven by Need for Non-Intrusive Applications
What are the latest hot buttons for users integrating ARM-based microcontrollers? NXP Semiconductor’s (www.nxp.com) Rob Cosaro, systems architecture manager in charge of NXP’s ARM-based
Energy Scavenging And Storage Must Work Together
Designing embedded systems in energy-sensitive environments requires both attention to power details and a system-level view of overall energy architectures. Successful designers must
Linux Meets Low Power
LPD: How does Linux 6 work with low power. Do you turn off certain parts of the chip that aren’t being used? Ready: There’s an analogy to the boot. It’s very dependent upon
Following The WLAN Alphabet To Lower Power
The quest for low power in electronic devices is one that shows no sign of abating any time soon. Pressure for it comes from many different sources, such as the continual drive to pack
The Impact of 3D Packaging
With semiconductor packaging becoming a more crucial piece of the Moore’s Law roadmap, the industry is still sorting out the impact of a 3D design and packaging approach on design
NXP 70-MHz, 32-bit Cortex-M3™ microcontrollers LPC1300
Industry’s lowest power Cortex-M3 based microcontrollers NXP brings a new level of power performance to the ARM architecture with the LPC1300 series, the industry’s lowest-power
LPC9402 (Accelerated 8-bit MCU)
NXP 80C51-based MCUs LPC9402 Accelerated 8-bit MCU with universal LCD driver Equipped with a universal LCD driver, this accelerated microcontroller delivers performance
Conflicting Requirements Drive the 8-bit Microcontroller Market
The 8-bit microcontroller market is a complex montage of conflicting design requirements. Users want low-cost chips that deliver high levels of integration and high performance. Unfortunately,
Low-Power Capacitive Sensing with the Capacitive Sensing Module
The content on this page is a condensed version of Microchip Technology’s Technical Brief TB3014, which can be downloaded for free at www.microchip.com/lowpower. Visitors will also
Run-Time Calibration of Watch Crystals
The content on this page is a condensed version of Microchip Technology’s Application Note AN1155, which can be downloaded for free at www.microchip.com/lowpower. Visitors will also
Featured Products
Sourcery G++
Supported TI Processors:OMAP35x, Stellaris MCUs , DM646x, DM644x, DM355 Sourcery G++™ professional C/C++ development tools from CodeSourcery offer high value
Xilinx CoolRunner-II CPLDs
Supported Architectures: 4-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit, 128-bit, ARM, DSP, FPGAs, Freescale (Coldfire, MCORE, HC08 etc), MIPS, OMAP, Power Architecture™ (including PowerPC),
Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs
Supported Architectures: 4-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit, 128-bit, ARM, DSP, FPGAs, Freescale (Coldfire, MCORE, HC08 etc), MIPS, OMAP, Power Architecture™ (including PowerPC),
Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs
Supported Architectures: 4-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit, 128-bit, ARM, DSP, FPGAs, Freescale (Coldfire, MCORE, HC08 etc), MIPS, OMAP, Power Architecture™ (including PowerPC),
MS-9A26 – Ultra Low Power Platform with Intel Atom processor Z530P
Micro-Star International (MSI) has launched MS-9A26, which is designed with latest Intel® Menlow chipset and Intel® Atom™ Silverthorne Z530P CPU, great for applications
VSX104 - 300MHz Fanless PC/104 CPU Module
Supported Operating Systems: Windows®CE, Linux, DOS, and most popuar 32-bit RTOS. Supported Architectures: PC/104 The VSX104 is a fanless design with a complement of robust
VSX104+ - 300MHz Fanless PC/104-Plus CPU Module with Dual LAN
Supported Operating Systems: Windows®CE, Linux, DOS, and most popuar 32-bit RTOS. Supported Architectures: PC/104, PC/104+ The VSX104+ is a 300MHz PC/104-Plus CPU module
CBP58 - 58 Farad Super Capacitor Backup Power Module
The CBP58 is a no-battery OEM backup module that uses supercapacitors rather than conventional batteries. The advantage of supercapacitors is that they charge very quickly and can
PIC16F72X 8-bit Flash Microcontrollers for Numerous Cost-Sensitive Applications
Supported 8-bit Architectures: PIC® Microcontrollers Embedded designers can integrate even higher levels of functionality into a wide variety of cost-sensitive applications with the
IM-945GSE - Ultra Low Power Platform with Intel® Atom™ processor N270
MSI debuts IM-945GSE, based on the Intel® Atom™ processor N270 and Mobile Intel® 945GSE Express chipset, provides the latest ultra-low power and Mini-ITX form factor platform into










