Semiconductor Products Insight
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It’s been a hot dull summer where we would expect little activity on the MCU front when companies are getting ready for the post-vacation frenzy.
TI gave us a nice surprise by updating its Tiva 123 with a new silicon revision, quite interesting for a family that we heard would join the mature product shelves. Unless there are some customers to keep happy?
ST made also a few sparks with higher temperatures version of existing parts, nothing earth shattering though.
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Atmel
Atmel has updated a lot of documents this month, but there were no other changes detected
Freescale
Freescale continues the revamp of its web site this month. We had a typo in our update last month. We meant that the K02 parts were gone – not the KE02. The loss is confirmed this month with an empty K02 product list. Also, most of the Z parts which were either obsolete or NRND have been removed from the family pages.
Freescale released a dozen products, in the MK22 100 and 120 MHz and MKL03families. The new MK22 parts sport a USB OTG port and 128, 256 or 512 kB of Flash. While the MKL03 has 32 kB of Flash.
NXP
NXP is quiet this month, no product move. No price change.
Renesas
Renesas released 13 new RL78 products this month in the G14 high performance family, all with LGA 36 or 64-pin packages and -40 to 105C temperatures.
The RX family got 2 new members, the R5F564MFCDFB
and R5F564MFCDFP while 3 other were removed: R5F564MBGDBG, R5F564MFBDFB, R5F564MFPDFP. These are part of the top of the line RX64M with the new RXv2 core announced last year.
SiliconLabs
Well, maybe with the summer, the changes are scarce and event non-existent at SiliconLabs, but the suspens remains.
ST Microelectronics
A bit or a breather for ST this month with – only – 16 new part numbers. Actually, this is a bit stale since all the new version are either TR (tape and reel) or industrial temp (-40 +105C) of existing parts. We also have mysterious parts with a 3 suffix (6 is -40+85C, and 7 is -40+105C), namely the STM32L051C8T3 and the STM32L053R8T3. Are these 0 to +40C ? ;)
Texas Instruments
Another small surprise for TI this month with the release of 101 new Tiva 123 part numbers. Pretty much like ST micro, these are actually R (tape-and-reel) versions or versions with a silicon revision of 7. It looks like the Tiva family still lives…
On the MSP430 front, a few parts were released, 2 from the FRAM family, and 4 from the MSP430F6769 clan.