NXP continues updates
31
Aug
2017
The US had its fair share of events in the past weeks with the solar eclipse and Harvey hitting south Texas hard. Austin, TX the former headquarter of Freescale stayed dry and the MCU team there, was the most active of the MCU manufacturers we track. Happy labor day for our US-based readers.
If you, while on the beach, have missed out our previous newsletter, check out interesting changes at Microchip and NXP and a nice article on ST, here.
In the Cortex-M class, 6 products were added, in the ATSAM4S (new packages) and ATSAM51J18 (256/128 kB Flash/RAM) families.
No change.
XMC1301T038X0064ABXUMA2 and XMC1302T038X0064ABXUMA2 got a new silicon revision (prefix 2 vs. 1).
The DSPIC33EP128MC502 got +105C versions while the PIC18(L)F45K2 was given a TQFP44 package. A similar process happened to the PIC18(L)F55K2/PIC18(L)F56K2 with a TQFP48 package.
31 products overall were added.
No change.
No change.
NXP continues to beef up its LPC84X family – recall it is a 30 MHz Cortex-M0+ MCU with 64/8 or 64/16 kB of Flash/RAM, and 12-bit DAC and ADC. The new flavors include HVQFN48/33 and LQFP48 packages to complement the existing LQFP64, 6 new variants were introduced.
The MKS22 was added too, essentially a MK22 with 2 CAN. We were expecting to see some severe crypto elements (MKS), but found no clear differentiators on that front. The K8x is the secure one. Interestingly, the MKS22 doesn’t appear on the Kinetis family page. You have to go through the product selector instead. We’ll assume that the web team is working on it.
Finally, the MKV42 received a LQFP48 package.
No significant changes this month at Renesas RX and RL78.
The Busy Bee EFM32BB received new package options while the EFM32 and Wireless families stayed quiet.
No change.
ST released a SO8 package for the STM8S00 and the STM8S20 got some new temperature variants. We saw a WLCSP option for the STM32F038/058 and 125C for the STM32L451CC.
Texas Instruments extended the MSP430FR2 to the bottom with down to 512 B of FRAM and 16/24 pins versions.
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