ST Microelectronics has extended its line of STM32 MCUs based on the ARM Cortex-M3 core and announced new ARM Cortex-M0 and the Cortex-M4 MCUs for mid-2011.
Category: Microcontrollers
If you must upgrade a design to include a USB connection for a Human Interface Device (HID), take a look at Silicon Labs, which now offers new bridge chips that easily provide a USB interface for UART-based devices.
You can use a new USB-2.0 chip and board to connect to Arduino I/O boards, or shields, to create an embedded system with many types of I/O and communication ports.
Microchip Technology will offer new MCUs based on the MIPS M14K processor core that offers code compatibility and an optimized instruction set that saves memory.
Some kits use complex MCUs that vendors document poorly, if at all. That's a shame because programmers want to do useful things, not decipher information in 1000-page data books just to make I/O ports work.