finally back to normal?
15
Mar
2021
We are done with last month’s breather and now are seeing healthy growth in the portfolios primarily with NXP newly minted i.MXRT500 for HMI applications as well as renewed interest in Automotive for Renesas. ST, in the meantime, is pushing the envelope for USB FS and USB-C enabled MCU priced below $3@10k.
Oh, and let’s not forget Renesas has made an offer to purchase Dialog Semiconductor with a shareholder vote set for April 7th…
Dialog is being acquired by Renesas to be consumed by H2 with a vote on April 7th.
There was a website revamp too.
All the DA14680/1 are now NRND and replaced by the DA14682/3 while the DA14580/1/2/3 are superseeded by the DA14585/6 and the DA14530/1.
No change yet, before the merge storm with Cypress.
Microchip introduced 83 products this month (similarly to last month):
- A couple dozens were VAO (Automotive grade) versions of existing part in the ATSAMC/D/E, AVR128,DSPIC33 and PIC16
families - A little more than 20 were around the PIC18FxxQ40, mostly expanding flash sizes and offering different packages
- The PIC18-Q41 (PIC18FxxQ41) family got new members. The family sports an on-chip operational amplifier, 12-bit ADC with Computation and two 8-bit DACs for improved data acquisition and sensor interfacing capabilities. Other key features include 16-bit PWMs, Direct Memory Access, Configurable Logic Cells and multiple communication interfaces. The PIC18-Q41 offers 14- and 20-pin products.
- PIC18-Q83 (PIC18FxxQ83) expanded too. They add Core Independent Peripherals (CIPs) with a Controller Area Network (CAN).
- PIC18-Q84 replaces enchances the Q83 CAN to a FD-CAN
There was some clean up in the DSPIC33EP/EV/FJ and PIC24, in all 198 parts dropped.
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No change.
No change.
We are now seing the first i.MXRT500 that was announced back in December, 3 parts in total.
The i.MX RT500 is optimized for low-power HMI application by combining a graphics engine and a Tensilica® Fusion F1 DSP core with a 200MHz Cortex-M33 code. The RT500 is a flashless family with up to 5MB of RAM, the biggest in the MCU segment. NXP also touts the EdgeLock Assurance program, that offers on-chip security capabilities and is built on a foundation of secure boot, secure debug and secure life cycle management designed to resist remote and software local attacks.
This is an interesting spin that will surely benefit OEM products.
Renesas beefed up the RA Family with the RA4M2 (100MHz CortexM33) and added to the RA2E1 (48MHz Cortex-M23).
Overall, 28 parts were added.
There were close to 500 new OPN released in the RL78 family with the following breakdown:
- 80 RL78/F12, automotive, low power applications
- 100 RL78/F13, automotive, low power applications
- 170 RL78/D1A, automotive, instrument clusters
- 80 RL78/F14, automotive, low power applications
- 40 RL78/F15, automotive, Enhanced CAN / LIN / IEBus and Memory Lineup
- 10 RL78/G1F, Multifunctional Microcontrollers with Enhanced Functionality for Sensorless BLDC Motor Control
Interestingly, there were 4 new RX23W (Bluetooth 5) OPN removed, with 8 left, all sporting a RXv2 core running at 54MHz. Let’s see how these co-exists with the newly acquired Dialog Semi portfolio.
No changes and it is starting to be very long since the last update in May 2020 with the BG22, a Bluetooth product. Hope we are not losing a good competitor in the MCU space.
Cypress/Infineon is releasing 21 new products mostly in the FM4 CY9BFx6xM/N/R-Series Motor Control Cortex-M4.
ST deployed over 130 new variants across the board and interestingly in the high end of the low end…
The STM32G0B and STM32G0C are Cortex-M0+ based with up to 512kB of Flash and selling for $1.20 to $2.80@10k. Most of the OPN in these 2 families have a USB 2.0 FS with PHY and some have an additional USB-C PD.
Image courtesy and copyright ST Microelectronics
TI only had a few minor variants this month.
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