More M7 goodness and a surprise reconfigurable package
16
Jun
2015
More Cortex-M7 goodness this month with ST trying to catch up with Atmel on that matter. Close to 30 new devices with heavy artillery (4kB I and D caches, Ethernet, 2 USB). But Atmel is not to be impressed thank to its 50% higher frequency and a broader portfolio for now. Freescale is also pushing up the MHz with 180 and 2MB of Flash on lower end MK26 devices. Interestingly, we are seeing the first show of RCP for Freescale standard products (MK26FN2M0CAC18R). A game changer for peripheral and custom function integration?
This month, we have a new UFBGA package option for the SAMD20J14/5/6A and the D20J17A, a WLCSP for the D20G18A.
On the price front, no significant changes happened.
FSL upped the frequency of its MK family to 180Mhz to create the MK65 and MK66 families, in total 8 parts.
And it also upped the Flash to 2MB! The MK6 family offers Ethernet, 2 USB ports with an HS PHY as well as a touch interface all in a MAPBGA or WLCSP package. Same story for the MK26, a new member of the USB-only MK2 family: 180MHz and up to 2MB of Flash. All of the new parts are based on the Cortex-M4 with the single precision floating point unit.
We also spotted the first part using RCP, a technology that could prove disruptive for peripheral integration. It is unclear just yet whether this is a trial run with only one die or multiple ones for separate functions. Contact us on twitter if you have hints!
No Price changes.
NXP was very quiet this month on the product front following the acquisition of Freescale.
Pricewise, there was no change.
Renesas announced the new RL78/G1F focused on motor control and sensor applications. The 20 new devices (P/N R5F11B***) embed 8 bit A/D and D/A with a programmable gain amplifier, I2C and UART. The lineup ranges from 24 to 64 pins and 32 to 64 KB of Flash. Samples are available now. Pricing starts at $1.10/10ku for the R511BGCAFB MCU 32 kB Flash / 5.5 kB RAM, 4kB data flash, QFP48.
There was no price change.
Ah, we are back to desert land, no product change this month for Silicon Labs.
No price changes.
Nice load of new products this month at ST, in particular the F745/6 and F756 based on the high performance Cortex-M7 clocked at 216 MHz. This bring the M7 portfolio from just one to close to 30 devices. The devices all bear a 4k/4k D/I cache with 2 USB ports, Ethernet, Quad-SPI camera interface and external memory bus. The F46/56 have a TFT-LCD controller while the F756 has a crypto hardware accelerator. Flash sizes range from 512 to 1024 kB.
ST price changes were interesting at disty. A few products STM32F070RBT6, F107VC got hot (+30%), and others caught a cold (-25%): STM32F103VBH6, STM32F103ZGT6, 215/205VGT6, F405ZGT6/407IET6.
Haha, one more sample of the MSP432 appeared this month, the XMS432401RIPZR with twice as much memory (Flash and RAM) 256/64 compared to the P401M initial variant.
We also detected 10 new MSP430FG6 products, targeting USB, metering, portable equipment and test/Measurement markets. They feature a 25MHz core with USB, LCD controler and up to 512 kB Flash.
No price changes this month for TI Tiva, but MSP430 got some nice price increases, the MSP430F676 between 11 and 34%.
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