Products of the Month
The QorIQ P2 platform series, which includes the P2020 and P2010 communications processors, delivers high single-threaded performance per watt for a wide variety of applications in the networking, telecom, military, and industrial markets. The series delivers dual- and single-core frequencies up to 1.2 GHz on a 45-nm-technology low-power platform.
The QorIQ P2 series consists of dual- and single-core products that are pin-compatible with the QorIQ P1 platform products, offering a five interchangeable cost-effective solutions. Scaling from a single core at 533 MHz (P1011) to a dual core at 1.2 GHz (P2020), the two QorIQ platforms together deliver an impressive 4.5x aggregate frequency range within the same pinout.
Freescale Semiconductor TWR-MCF51CN-KIT: Low-Cost Development Kit for MCF51CN128
The TWR-MCF51CN-KIT is a low-cost development tool for the MCF51CN128 Ethernet microcontroller. This kit is part of the Freescale Tower System, a modular, reconfigurable development platform that allows designers to get to market faster with packaged evaluation boards, tools and runtime software.
The MCF51CN microcontroller module is designed to be a standalone debug tool and can also be purchased separately from the kit, part number TWR-MCF51CN.
Featured Tool
Renesas Starter Kit for R8C/27
The Renesas Starter Kit for R8C/27 is intended as a user-friendly introductory and evaluation tool for the R8C/27 microcontroller. The board also provides a useful platform for evaluating the Renesas suite of development tools for coding and debugging, using High-Performance Embedded Workshop as well as programming the device using E8 emulator and/or Flash Development Toolkit.
The Renesas Starter Kit for R8C/27 may be connected to the host PC using a simple RS-232 serial connection (not normally fitted) or via the included USB E8 on chip- debugging interface.
The purpose of the board is to enable the user to evaluate the capabilities of the device and its peripherals by giving the user a simple platform on which code can be run only minutes from opening box. It can also prove an invaluable tool in development by providing a useful test platform for code already debugged using one of our more powerful emulation tools.
Featured Processors
Atmel ATmega16U4 and ATmega32U4
AVR microcontrollers combining USB controller and high performance analog features. The ATmega16U4 and ATmega32U4 reduce system cost in battery powered devices such as gaming accessories.
Battery-powered devices can take advantage of being connected to a USB port to recharge. However, modern batteries require sophisticated algorithms to accelerate and optimize charging, while USB brings further constraints on the battery charging since it is limited both in the voltage and the maximum current it can provide. The new AVR devices allow optimized battery charging combined with USB functions. The analog to digital converter can be used to sense motion or pressure in the end application and the high-speed PWM is ideal for low-cost motor control.
Gaming peripherals, such as sophisticated joysticks also require a number of analog to digital conversion channels and several PWM channels to drive force-feedback motors. The new devices have a rich feature set that address those needs and optimize the global system cost. This includes a 10-bit ADC with 12 channels; a built-in temperature sensor allowing compensating thermal effects on analog performance; a programmable gain x1, x10, x40 and x200 giving more flexibility to measure differential voltages for current monitoring. A high-speed timer with three PWM channels with complementary outputs and programmable dead-times allows 8-bit resolution PWM with an industry-best frequency of 500 kHz, up to 11-bit resolution PWM with a frequency over 60 kHz.
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