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Hi folks, welcome to one of my little corners of the web.  Every once and a while I get the “hankering” to put some circuits together and play around with microcontrollers.  I thought it would be nice if I had a place to put these gems so here it is.

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Featuring six 48-pin 78K0R/KC3-L models and six 64-pin 78K0R/KE3-L models, All Flash(TM) 16-bit Microcontrollers offer low standby power consumption of 0.37 µA and low active power consumption of 6.4 mA at 20 MHz during CPU operation. On-chip USB function controller facilitates connection between peripheral systems, consumer electronics devices, and healthcare appliances. All models are …

Housed in 56-pin, 8 x 8 mm QFN package, All Flash(TM) Microcontrollers combine ultra-low-power 78K0R/Kx3-L 16-bit CPU and IEEE802.15.4-compliant 2.4 GHz RF transceiver for ZigBee® RF4CE. Current consumption is 18 mA during reception and 19 mA during transmission. Available with 64, 96, or 128 KB flash memory, MCUs with internal voltage booster, are capable of writing and erasing data in Flash …

All Flash(TM) LCD MCUs integrate metrology engine that consists of 24-bit delta-sigma ADC, power calculation hardware, power quality-management circuits, and anti-tampering circuits. Providing energy measurement and management functions for smart electricity meters, 64-pin 78K0/LE3-M and 100-pin 78K0/LG3-M come in 10 x 10 mm and 14 x 14 mm LQFPs, respectively, and are designed for single-phase …

KAWASAKI, Japan & SANTA CLARA, Calif. & DUESSELDORF, Germany—-NEC Electronics today announced the availability of twelve new 16-bit All Flash™ microcontrollers with built-in Universal Serial Bus 2.0 functionality and industry-leading low-power consumption.

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal-processing applications, today introduced a pair of highly integrated precision analog microcontrollers featuring on-chip memory, data converters, and other analog peripherals that combine to deliver the highest level of programmability and smallest package size

Designed to boost control functions in tunable optical modules, Model ADuC7122 includes 32-bit ARM7TDMI processor core operating at 41.78 MHz with 8 KB on-chip SRAM, 128 KB on-chip EEPROM memory, and software-triggered in-circuit re-programmability. Model ADuC7023, intended for fixed frequency laser applications, offers 8 KB SRAM, 62 KB flash/EEPROM memory, and 19 general-purpose I/O pins. Both …

Equipped with Integrity Guard hardware security, contactless Series SLE 78CL addresses government ID and payment applications in smart card form factor and beyond. Unit provides error-detection and on-chip encryption over data path. Dual CPU utilizes hardware encrypted calculation with individual secret keys and continuously cross-checks operations to identify erroneous states. After detecting …

Equipped with Integrity Guard hardware security, contactless Series SLE 78CL addresses government ID and payment applications in smart card form factor and beyond. Unit provides error-detection and on-chip encryption over data path. Dual CPU utilizes hardware encrypted calculation with individual secret keys and continuously cross-checks operations to identify erroneous states. After detecting …

Energy Micro A/S (Oslo, Norway), the startup that has brought the Gecko family of 32-bit ARM-based microcontrollers to market, has announced that it plans to offer a companion range of low-power RF transceiver products.

Energy Micro A/S (Oslo, Norway), the startup that has brought the Gecko family of 32-bit ARM-based microcontrollers to market, has announced that it plans to offer a companion range of low-power RF transceiver products.