Products of the Week: Starter AI Accelerator Chip, LED Display Driver ICs

Aug. 11, 2023

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No Battery Needed with Ultra-Low-Power 8-Bit MCU

Nuvoton Technology recently unveiled its MUG51 series of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs). They use less than 1.3 mA during regular operation, a small enough amount to run devices without a battery.

The MUG51 incorporates a single MCU core clocked at 7.37 MHz, supplemented by 16 kB of flash (APROM) memory and 1 kB of SRAM within the chip. The MCU is specifically designed to limit the current consumed during power-on and resume, requiring only 200 μA after power-on and before flash memory starts up. In sleep mode, the chip consumes less than 1 μA.

For flexibility, the MUG51 contains a rich set of peripherals, including GPIO with an internal inverter, 16-bit timers, 12-bit ADC, 16-bit PWM, UART, I²C, SPI, and a pair of rail-to-rail comparators (ACMP).

For systems that experience harsh conditions, it supports a wide operating voltage range of 1.8 to 5.5 V, and operating temperature of −40 to 105°C, plus high resistance to electrostatic shock with electrical fast transient (EFT) to ±4.4 kV and electrostatic-discharge human body model (ESD HBM) to ±7 kV.

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Highlights include a family of LED driver ICs ideal for larger, high-resolution displays in car cockpits. Also, be sure to check out a new modular blade server that promises to bring next-gen CPUs and GPUs to the aerospace and defense sectors. Here is a list of the products in this round up.

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James Morra | Senior Editor

James Morra is a senior editor for Electronic Design, covering the semiconductor industry and new technology trends, with a focus on power management. He also reports on the business behind electrical engineering, including the electronics supply chain. He joined Electronic Design in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.