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Floating point coprocessor interfaces to virtually any microcontroller

Micromega Corporation releases the uM-FPU V3 Floating Point Coprocessor chip. The uM-FPU V3 chip interfaces to virtually any microcontroller using a SPI interface or I2C interface, making it ideal for ...
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Atmel Expands ARM Cortex-M4 based Flash Microcontroller Family With New Advanced Connectivity Peripherals and Floating Point Unit

Running at 120MHz, New SAM4E ARM Cortex-M4 Processor-Based MCUs Provide Ethernet and Dual-CAN Connectivity and Advanced Analog Capability San Jose, CA, January 14, 2013 - Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ...
Electronic Design

IoT Control Using 8-Bit MCUs

Microcontrollers have come a long way, with 8-bit MCUs demonstrating tremendous resilience and application innovations through advances in memory, power consumption, packaging, and peripherals. 8-bit ...
Business Wire

Renesas Introduces Dual-Core 32-bit SuperH Microcontrollers Capable of Up to 960-MIPS Processing Performance, 800 MFLOPS Floating-Point Operation Performance

When the dual-core microcontrollers are operating at their 200 MHz maximum operating frequency, each CPU delivers 480-MIPS (million instructions per second) processing performance in the Dhrystone ...
EDN

8-bit microcontroller implements digital lowpass filter

Filtering occurs frequently in the analog world. Unfortunately, in the digital world, engineers apply it mainly to the DSPs (digital-signal processors) and not to the small 8-bit microcontrollers that ...
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Cortus Announces FPS6 32 bit Floating Point Microcontroller IP Core for High Performance Control and Signal Processing Applications

Cortus extends family of 32 bit modern RISC microcontroller IP cores with high performance FPS6 microcontroller IP core. The FPS6 is aimed at demanding floating point applications such as industrial ...
Electronic Design

11 Myths About 8-Bit Microcontrollers

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Wayne Freeman, Campaign Manager, MCU8 Business Unit, Microchip Technology Inc. The venerable 8-bit microcontroller (MCU ...