Freescale's Flexis line got a boost with a
pair of 50-MHz 32-bit MCF51QE32 V1 Cold-
Fire chips. They target mobile applications
and draw only 370 nA in the lowest-power
stop mode. The chips have 8 kbytes of
SRAM and 32 kbytes of flash; a 12-bit,
20-channel analog-to-digital converter; two
SCI ports, two I2C ports, and two SPI ports;
54 general-purpose I/O (GPIO); and an
internal clock. Pricing starts at $1.94.
Meanwhile, Freescale released its V2 Coldfire
MCF522xx family. The MCF5223x
includes 100BaseT Ethernet, while the
MCF5221x adds USB host and OTG support.
Flash is 256 and 128 kbytes, respectively.
Pricing starts at $2.84.
Freescale Semiconductor www.freescale.com