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Philips Semiconductors targets PC market
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Keil Announces New Evaluation Board for Philips LPC2103 ARM Powered Microcontroller
Keil announced availability of its new MCB2103 evaluation board for the LPC2103 microcontroller (MCU) from Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG ; AEX:PHIA). This new evaluation board provides a proven platform to easily evaluate the strengths of the feature-rich, ARM7TDMI(R) processor- based LPC2103.
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Xilinx Demonstrates Industry's First Programmable ExpressCard Solution
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Xilinx Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX), will demonstrate the industry's first programmable ExpressCard application, comprised of the Philips PX1011A PCI Express PHY and PDD 2016 DVB-T module, a Xilinx(R) Spartan-3E(TM) FPGA, and an optimized Xilinx PCI Express LogiCORE IP core. The solution is ideally suited to meet the PCMCIA performance and power requirements for the ExpressCard module specification.
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Philips delivers industry's most advanced 90-nm ARM9 microcontroller
Philips announced the availability of the industry's first 90-nm ARM9-based microcontroller: the LPC3180. The new 32-bit MCU from Philips provides high performance with low power dissipation, and is the only ARM9 microcontroller that provides a vector floating-point co-processor and integrated USB On-The-Go, as well as the ability to operate in ultra-low-power mode down to 0.9V. With speeds of up to 208 MHz, the Philips LPC3180 is ideal for a wide range of high-precision applications such as point-of-sale (POS) equipment, medical and industrial devices, global positioning systems (GPS), and robotics.
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eCosCentric adds CAN driver support to eCosPro®
eCosCentric Limited, the eCos and RedBoot experts, announced the addition of CAN driver support for eCosPro®. The eCosPro-CAN package initially targets the Philips Semiconductors SJA1000, on-chip CAN controllers found in Philips Semiconductors' popular LPC2000 ARM7 family and FlexCAN modules found in Freescale Semiconductor's range of ColdFire and PowerPC processors.
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eCos bumps pSos from Philips STBs
Philips will switch some of its reference designs for digital TV set-top boxes (STBs) and bolt-on receivers from pSos+ to eCos, according to eCosCentric. eCosCentric's eCosPro Starter Kit will be distributed as the "de-facto supplied RTOS" for some Nexperia PNX83xx designs, eCosCentric says.
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NXP (Philips) Semiconductors Introduces Wireless USB Device Controller
NXP Semiconductors has announced availability of a Wireless USB device controller based upon the Certified Wireless USB specification. The NXP ISP3582 device controller combines the ease of use and speed of wired USB with the convenience of wireless connectivity for high-speed picture transfers, music downloads, printing and data synchronization for PC peripherals and consumer electronics.
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Micrium Offers First RTOS to Support NXP’s LPC3180 With Vector Floating Point Coprocessor
Micrium, a leading provider of high quality embedded software components, today announced that its uC/OS-II real time operating system (RTOS) and uC/OS-View have been ported on NXP’s LCP3180 family of ARM9 processors. uC/OS-II is the first RTOS to support NXP’s Vector Floating Point unit (VFP), which combines high performance with low power dissipation.
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