Introduction of New Single-Chip 8-bit MCU featuring Embedded FRAM Memory by Fujitsu
Fujitsu Semiconductor has announced release of a new 8-bit MCU featuring embedded Ferroelectric Random Access Memory (FRAM) designed for variety of general purpose applications, such as consumer electronic products, healthcare as well as industrial systems. Incorporating the FRAM into the MCU will significantly reduces the footprint and cost through a simplified design eliminating chip-to-chip interconnects, resulting in improvement in transaction speed and internal bus interface between MCU and memory, out performing the FLASH or EEPROM. The embedded FRAM can be erased and rewritten 1015 times, with data retention of 10 years. The FRAM can be partitioned as either ROM or RAM. The new MCU MB95R203A operates with power supplies ranging from 1.8V to 3.6V, a power supplies that are typically used in home healthcare devices, such as blood pressure and glucose meters. The new chip incorporates timers and communication functions, as well as high-precision A/C converters, UART, I2C, and 16 I/O ports. Read more
Epson Flash MCU for High Definition LCD
For what it has been claimed as the industry’s largest HD LCD display area MCU, the newly developed S1C17705 a low power 16 bit microcontroller by Seiko Epson Corp contains a LCD driver with resolution of 128 SEG x 32 COM suitable for LCD display for healthcare equipment, remote controller as well as sports watches. The S1C17705 comes with LCD controller designed to set up two 64 SEG x 32 COM displays making it able to provide a same display quality as 64 SEG x 64 COM LCD driver while only using a 32 COM operating current. Read more
