Renesas and ST beat Santa to the finish
15
Dec
2014
Santa Claus is coming soon to town, but Renesas and ST already delivered the surprises – spoiler alert… ST addressed both ends of the spectrum with a lost cost family (STM32F091) heavily hinting at the Chinese market while the STM32F446 could easily manage your city’s Christmas tree with a camera interface, 7 I2S audio interfaces, a Consumer Electronics Controller (CEC) for managing multiple HDMI devices, a SPDIF digital audio connection, and a display parallel interface. There is also dual Quad-SPI (QSPI) interface.
Renesas is no less ambitious with its RX113 ready for capacitive touch interfaces and a USB 2.0.
What more could we ask for?
There were a number of datasheets updated this month, and a few part numbers were kicked out, namely in the SAMD11 family:
- SAMD11C13A-SSUT
- SAMD11D13A-MUT
- SAMD11D13A-SSUT
We will be watching for the new M7 parts that were announced last month by Jacko Wilbrink (Senior Product Marketing Director for Cortex A and M7 products – with a k).
On the price front, the portfolio experienced only minor changes (2 on SAM4L, below 2%)
There was quite a bit of shuffle at Freescale this month as all the MK11, 21 and 22 got a new silicon revision (A code after the flash size e.g. MK21DN512AVMC5). Same treatment for the MKM14Z64 and 128 CHH5, the MKM33Z64 and 128. There were a few real new products in the MK22 120MHz family with mostly new packages: WLCSP64 and WLCSP80.
Nothing happened for FSL prices this month.
After the announcement of the LPC54100 family last month, it’s been quiet on the product front at NXP.
Here is a run down of the main LPC54100 features:
- Dual-core M4+M0+ (54101) or Single core M4 (54102) 100 MHz
- 512/256 kB Flash
- 3 uA power down with RAM retention
- Cortex-M0+ (55 uA/MHz)
- Cortex-M4F (100 uA/MHz)
- ADC 12 chan, 12 bits
- -40 to +105C
- 1.62 to 3.6 V
- WLCSP49 (3.28 x 3.28 mm), LQFP64 (10 x 10 mm)
Pricewise, a few parts were hammered down 20%: LPC11E67JBD48, LPC11E68JBD100, LPC11U67JBD48,LPC11U68JBD100, LPC11E68JBD64, LPC11U68JBD64.
Renesas released 20 parts in the newly announced RX113 with capacitive touch sensing, starting at $3/10k for 128kB Flash. The production is slated for 02/15.
No changes were captured for the RL78.
Renesas experienced no price change.
SiLabs had a clean flat EEG this month.
Pricewise, only a few parts had movement, mostly in the EFM32LG360 and WG360 and in mild negative territory (-7%).
39 products became public this month mostly from 2 newly announced families:
The 180MHz Cortex-M4 STM32F446 is sampling now with production in Q1 2015. Packages range from WLCSP81 3.7×3.8mm to 20x20mm LQFP144, and with 256kB or 512kB Flash, all with 128kB SRAM. Pricing starts at $3.75 for the STM32F446RC/LQFP64/256kB/128kB at 10k.
At the other end of the spectrum, the 48MHz Cortex-M0 STM32F091 targets cost sensitive applications. The STM32F091 is available in 48/64 pins and salt-atmosphere-compatible QFP100 suitable for smart utility meters in China. Prices start at $1.59/10k for the STM32F091CBT6/128kB/32kB/QFP48.
ST prices experienced very interesing changes this month. Pretty much all the portfolio was touched with small adjustments, below +/- 0.2%. However, a few part number prices were doubled. We had to “double-check” too to make sure we hadn’t had a glitch in our process. The entire STM32F105 porfolio was affected, and actually it was a correction of last month’s 50% decrease.
Looks like there was a glitch at ST. However, the STM32F207VCT7 did not get the 100% bump, but was part of last month’s 50% sale. Let’s wait for January to see if its price will come back up.
TI released a hodgepodge of new devices in the MSP430 Christmas tree.
For the FG43, it was a new NFBGA113 package. For the F563, it was an LCD controller (F663). Most of the others were simply R suffixes of existing parts.
There were no price change for Tiva and limited changes at TI, with a 20% decrease for the MSP430G2332QPW.
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