ST tweaks the portfolio
15
May
2014
After the heat of new products and price changes, it looks like MCU manufacturers are taking a well deserved break this month. Well, maybe except for ST who showed 50+ new products.
Atmel
Although Atmel had no new product over the last 30 days, there was a sizable announcement for the maker community on May 15 where the Arduino Zero board was unveiled jointly with Arduino.
It is interesting to see that this new board is the first one to be based on the Cortex-M0+ family and the second Cortex-M based one. All the others are based on the ATMega family. The new board sports a ATSAMD21G18 running at 48 MHz with 256 kB of Flash and 32 kB of RAM.
Freescale has entered a cool off period after the frenzy of the last couple of months (KE02/4/6 announcements).
Only one product appeared, the MK22FN128VLH10 while the MK10DN512ZVMC10R was removed.
NXP
Not much change this month to the NXP portfolio
Same here for Renesas with another flat line following the announcement in March of the RX64.
SLAB continues to work on the portfolio realignment after the acquisition of Energy Micro in June last year.
The portfolio price (EFM and SiM3) is stable this month.
ST Microelectronics
Another interesting month at ST:
- The STM32F050 is slowly being phased out with all but one part in NRND. That one (STM32F050G6) is in evaluation…
- Over 53 products were made public this time, here is a recap:
- F031: higher temperature version of existing parts
- F100R8H: higher temperature version of existing parts
- F301: new family in the analog/metering family
- F302, 303: smaller Flash sizes in existing family: 32 and 64 kB
- F358: new family focused on analog and metering. Sports 4 analog comparators, 4 ADC, 2 DAC, 72 MHz, and 256 kB Flash for now
- F378: similar to 358 with more timers, sigma delta ADC, 256 kB Flash for now
- F429: now offering down to 512 kB Flash, with additional packages
- L051/052: now with 36 pins
Texas Instruments
TI has done a new silicon revision of its Tiva 129 samples, maybe for existing customers?
In the MSP430 family, 14 new products were uncovered in the 6 family (USB+LCD) as well as 2 series and FRAM.
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