| Inspiring the Evolution of Embedded Design |
| February 9, 2021 Microcontroller Watch |
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| | | MCU Family Eyes Very Low Power IoT Designs |
| Renesas Electronics has announced the expansion of its RA4 Series MCUs with 12 new RA4M2 Group chips. The new devices deliver a combination of very low power consumption, high performance, and enhanced security features that position them as solutions for industrial and IoT applications. The highly power-efficient RA4M2 Group offer a low operating current of only 80µA/MHz in active mode, and low standby current of 0.7mA. |
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| | | Full SEGGER Ecosystem Rolls for Renesas RE MCUs |
| SEGGER Microcontroller, in cooperation with Renesas, has announced the availability of its entire product portfolio for the Renesas RE Family MCUs. This includes a full line of development tools, embedded software and production tools, making firmware development for the Arm-based Renesas RE MCUs fast and easy. |
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| | | Development Board Sports ESP32-S2 MCU |
| Espressif Systems has announced that Morpheans, a French startup, has built an ESP32-S2-based development board for education and innovation. MorphESP 240 provides an affordable, versatile, fully-integrated platform with Wi-Fi connectivity. MorphESP 240 is an easy-to-use dev board that is compatible with Arduino and CircuitPython. It is based on ESP32-S2 and comes with a built-in, high-resolution, IPS-color display in a 20g, 89mm × 28mm × 6mm package. |
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| | | Balancing a Ball on a Touchscreen |
| Servo control is just one area where microcontrollers shine. In this article, see how these two Cornell students designed and built a ball-balancing platform based on a PIC32 MCU, using a resistive touchscreen and servo motors attached to a gimbal mount. A PID control algorithm is used to balance the ball. |
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| | | MCUs with Capacitive Touch and LCD Driver |
| Nuvoton has announced its NuMicro ML56, a microcontroller series with low power, built-in capacitive touch sensing and LCD driver. It is based on a 1T 8051 core and has embedded 64KB flash and 4KB SRAM. It runs on less than 100µA/MHz power in normal run mode with a power-down current below 2µA with an LCD panel display on. The NuMicro ML56 series runs up to 24MHz, operating from 1.8V to 3.6V and -40°C to 105°C. |
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| Jetson Xavier Powered “Outdoor AI” Edge AI Computer Features 8x GMSL Cams Neousys’ IP67 protected “NRU-110V” edge AI system runs Linux on a Jetson AGX Xavier and offers a 10GbE port and 8x time-synchronized GMSL cameras for rugged applications including robotics and automated vehicles. |
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