Renesas RA Series MCU Naming Method and Selection

Renesas RA Series MCU Naming Method and Selection

2.2.2 Renesas RA Series MCU Naming Method and Selection 2.2.2.1 Renesas MCU Naming Method Overall Naming: Click to view larger image For beginners, understanding the different numbers and letters in the model numbers of the RA product family can be challenging. We will first take one model from the RA series MCU, R7FA6M5BH2CBG, as an … Read more

Fully Independent and Controllable Supply Chain: Dongfeng’s Automotive Grade MCU Chip DF30 Set for Mass Production Next Year

Fully Independent and Controllable Supply Chain: Dongfeng's Automotive Grade MCU Chip DF30 Set for Mass Production Next Year

According to “Hubei Daily,” on April 3, at the Dongfeng Motor Global Innovation Center, Zhang Fanwu, Chief Engineer of Intelligent Technology at Dongfeng Motor R&D Institute, stated that the DF30, the first domestically produced automotive-grade high-performance MCU chip, has completed its first tape-out (trial production) verification, and automotive-grade validation is about to begin, with plans … Read more

Current Status and Future of Chip 032 Peripheral Chips

Current Status and Future of Chip 032 Peripheral Chips

The first is the RF chip, which is the chip that emits the frequency of radio devices, its frequency corresponds to different waveforms, for example listening to the radio, which uses over 100 MHz, and wireless internet Wifi has 2.4G and 5.8G, where 5.8G is commonly known as 5G Wifi, and the operators’ 3G, 4G, … Read more

Technical Insights | TI’s Ultra-Compact M0+ MCU Packaging Offers More Possibilities for Your Designs

Technical Insights | TI's Ultra-Compact M0+ MCU Packaging Offers More Possibilities for Your Designs

Click the blue text to follow us Add a star to the “…” in the top right corner of the homepage to stay updated! As circuit and system design sizes shrink, it becomes increasingly challenging for engineers to select suitable components for their designs. In many different applications (such as earbuds, thermometers, wearable devices, styluses, … Read more

Domestic Chips Replacing C2000? The GS32-DSP Series is Reshaping Choices in the Digital Power Market

Domestic Chips Replacing C2000? The GS32-DSP Series is Reshaping Choices in the Digital Power Market

Produced by Zhien Intelligent Chip In addition to electrification, the entire electronic and electrical architecture of new energy vehicles has undergone many changes, with an increasing number of functions requiring implementation through microcontrollers (MCU). Core modules of electric vehicles, such as traction inverters, battery management systems (BMS), on-board chargers (OBC), and digital power management in … Read more

Top 10 Automotive Grade MCU Chips Preferred by Chinese Engineers

Top 10 Automotive Grade MCU Chips Preferred by Chinese Engineers

According to authoritative market research institutions, the global MCU market size is expected to reach approximately $17.79 billion in 2020, with shipments exceeding 28 billion units. This year’s MCU market size is projected to reach $18.48 billion, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.1% from 2021 to 2028, growing to $36.16 billion by … Read more

Evaluation of 50 Cent MCUs: How Fast Can GPIO Toggle?

Evaluation of 50 Cent MCUs: How Fast Can GPIO Toggle?

Recently, an engineer asked me how fast the highest toggle speed of an MCU can reach. I had heard about this topic years ago, but I had never actually tested it. This time, I took the opportunity to conduct some tests and discovered a lot of knowledge hidden within. For this test, I selected three … Read more

Common Misunderstandings of 8-bit MCUs by Embedded Engineers

Common Misunderstandings of 8-bit MCUs by Embedded Engineers

In recent years, with the gradual maturity of processes and IPs, the growth of 32-bit MCUs has been rapid, to the extent that 16-bit MCUs have been largely overlooked. Nowadays, when discussing embedded MCUs, it is either 8-bit or 32-bit, with very few 16-bit MCU product models available. So what about the situation with 8-bit … Read more

Understanding the Driving Capability of MCU’s SPI Interface and GPIO: How Many Slave Devices Can SPI Connect?

Understanding the Driving Capability of MCU's SPI Interface and GPIO: How Many Slave Devices Can SPI Connect?

Friends involved in hardware design should be familiar with the SPI interface and the GPIO ports of MCUs, and many have personally designed SPI interfaces. When designing, did you consider this important parameter? — The driving capability of the SPI interface and ordinary GPIO ports. Today, let’s discuss how to evaluate the driving capability of … Read more

Differences Between CPU, MCU, MPU, SOC, DSP, and More

Differences Between CPU, MCU, MPU, SOC, DSP, and More

Source: Blog Garden (wish life happy), Eefocus, Zhihu, IoT World, etc. If there is any infringement, please contact the author.In the field of electronics, we often mention CPU, MCU, MPU, SOC, DSP, ECU, GPU, FPGA, etc. These are common types of chips or processors, but they have significant differences in structure, function, and application scenarios. … Read more