ST intros STM32F4 series high-performance Cortex-M4 MCUs

STMicroelectronics has introduced the STM32F4 series STM32 F4x9 and STM32F401, which are high-performance Cortex-M4 microcontrollers (MCUs). On the growth drivers for GP MCUs, the market growth is driven by faster migration to 32 bit platform. ST has been the first to bring the ARM Cortex based solution, and now targets leadership position on 32bit MCUs.

Higher levels of abstraction growth area for EDA

San Jose, USA-based Atrenta’s SpyGlass Predictive Analyzer gives engineers a powerful guidance dashboard that enables efficient verification and optimization of SoC designs early, before expensive and time-consuming traditional EDA tools are deployed. I recently met up with Dr. Ajoy Bose, chairman, president and CEO, Atrenta, to find out more. I started by asking how Atrenta

Exar serving high-growth areas with innovative value-added solutions

Exar Corp., established 1971, is headquartered in Fremont, USA, and has design centers in Silicon Valley and Hangzhou, China. Louis DiNardo, president and CEO, Exar, said that the company’s strategic model is to serve high-growth markets with innovative value-added solutions. He was speaking at the ongoing 13th Globalpress Electronics Summit in Santa Cruz, USA. Exar offers solutions that

III-V high mobility semiconductors for advanced CMOS apps

Clement Merckling, IMEC, Belgium, presented on the epitaxial growth and in-situ passivation requirements for III-V high mobility semiconductors for advanced CMOS applications at the Semicon Europa in Dresden, Germany. The motivations for III-V MOS transistors include higher electron carrier mobility (@ low-field), more efficient source injection, smaller energy bandgap, VDD scaling, band engineering capabilities, lower

Highlights of Union Budget 2012-13

Here are some of the highlights from the Union Budget 2012, tabled in the Indian Parliament this morning by Pranab Mukherjee, Union Minister of Finance. * National Manufacturing Policy announced with the objective of raising, within a decade, the share of manufacturing in GDP to 25 percent and creating of 10 crore jobs. * Proposal to

SanDisk’s iNAND Extreme family of embedded eMMC storage devices for high-end mobile and tablets

SanDisk Corp.’s embedded storage is in most of all top computing device brands. It recently launched the iNAND Extreme family of embedded eMMC storage devices for high-end mobile and tablets. Gadi Ben-Gad, product marketing manager for SanDisk, said: “This very high performance line of iNAND products joins the existing iNAND and iNAND Ultra lines, which

LTE will see larger deployments, higher volumes than WiMAX!

Late last month, I had the pleasure of attending a Maravedis seminar on 4Ggear: Equipment market update and chipset trends. It also included a market perspective from Sequans Communications, presented by Craig Miller, VP, Marketing & Business Development. This post will highlight Craig’s presentation. Maravedis’ post will follow thereafter. 4G trends: Device volumes and devices

Xilinx to build next-gen FPGAs on 28nm high-k metal gate

Xilinx Inc. has announced the foundation for a next-generation of Xilinx programmable platforms that will give system designers FPGAs that consume half the power at twice the capacity than previously possible for addressing the Programmable Imperative. Xilinx’s architecture for next-generation FPGA products will be built on 28nm high-k metal gate (HKMG), high-performance, low-power process at

Highest efficiency Si solar cells realised with n-Si — Prof. Weber, Fraunhofer ISE

Prof. Eicke R. Weber, director, Fraunhofer ISE, Germany, will be delivering the opening keynote at the inauguration of the SOLARCON India 2009 and India Semiconductor Association (ISA) PV Conclave next Monday in Hyderabad. Thanks to ISA’s help, I was able to get into a conversation with him, where he elaborated on the capabilities of n-type

Top 5 high growth markets driving (semicon?) recovery, and top 10 hot and emerging technology platforms

Today, I received two wonderful reports — one, highlighting the top 5 high growth markets driving (semiconductor) recovery, and two, the top 10 hot and emerging technology platforms well poised to profoundly impact manifold sectors across the globe while offering potential high RoI for investors! First, semiconductors! Semico Research has come up with a report