Freescale has added advanced floating point technology to its groundbreaking QorIQ Qonverge B4 product family, creating compelling new solutions for the industrial and general-purpose markets. Freescale’s B4420 and award-winning B4860 system-on-chip solutions, powered by SC3900 StarCore technology, are the first B4 family members to include floating point arithmetic.

Freescale's embedded technologies power healthcare devices in operating rooms, clinics, homes and remote locations.

Freescale Semiconductor announced today that Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. priced the previously announced offering of its senior secured notes. The offering consists of $500 million aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2021 (the Notes). The Notes will bear interest at 5.0% and will mature on May 15, 2021.

Our Qorivva MPC560xB family of 32-bit MCUs are the latest in integrated devices available for automotive body electronics applications. These scalable devices built on Power Architecture technology are supported by an enablement ecosystem that includes the StarterTRAK TRK-MPC5606B development kit with software drivers, operating systems and configuration code to help you quickly implement your designs.

Freescale Semiconductor has demonstrated the first QorIQ P1020 reference platform for 802.11ac that simultaneously delivers “gigabit Wi-Fi” while running application identification software required for security and core network offload in next-generation wireless local area network products. The turnkey reference platform underscores Freescale’s continued leadership in the wireless access space, which Infonetics projects to grow at 12 perc...

Freescale Semiconductor announce that the QorIQ T4240 multicore communications processor has surpassed the record it previously set with the highest CoreMark benchmark score ever recorded for an embedded system-on-chip processor. Using advanced compiler technology from Green Hills Software, the QorIQ T4240 processor improved its industry-leading CoreMark score from 179,763 to 187,873.

Freescale Semiconductor plans to showcase advanced Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization technologies integrated with the popular OpenStack Cloud OS platform at the industry’s premier conference focused on open networking standards.

The average mid-range car has over a dozen microprocessors in it. High-end models have over 100. Those systems need to be ultra-reliable and re-usable, they need to be tough and robust, and they need to be cheap. How can a developer possibly meet all those goals at once?

As companies migrate from 8-bit to 16-bit to 32-bit, the question that is often raised is what's the real value of an RTOS? John Dixon of Freescale's Microcontroller division discusses the benefits.

Freescale Semiconductor have recently reached a milestone unparalleled in the industry – shipment of more than 175 million high-power, high-frequency RF power transistors in plastic packages. Freescale's RF power over-molded plastic packaging provides cost-effective and reliable alternatives to conventional, more expensive metal-ceramic packaging. Freescale’s plastic packaging withstands and dissipates the high heat levels generated by RF pow...

The automotive industry is changing rapidly to address complex challenges, including higher bandwidth networks, improving data security, implementing functional safety and reducing overall energy consumption. Freescale Semiconductor is expanding its Qorivva and S12 MagniV vehicle body network microcontroller (MCU) portfolios to address these challenges and bring a new level of integration and function to automotive body applications

The global proliferation of portable medical devices is making medical technology more accessible to consumers and transforming the healthcare industry by providing previously unavailable technology to end users, often in their own home. Medical device manufacturers are facing the challenges of the consumer marketplace including its price sensitivity and time-to-market pressure. To help simplify product development, reduce cost and speed time to ...

Freescale Semiconductor Inc. today announced David M. Uze has been appointed Freescale Semiconductor Korea Inc’s., president and representative director. He will also keep his current position of vice president of Freescale Semiconductor Inc. and president of Freescale Semiconductor Japan Ltd.

Freescale technical experts Jaideep Dastidar and John Arends discuss industry approaches to measuring core performance and how Freescale benchmarks its industry-leading QorIQ communications processors - including the QorIQ T4240 SoC which recently shattered an industry record for embedded processing.

Easy-to-use, web-based mbed development tools are now freely available for the Kinetis L series of microcontrollers from Freescale Semiconductor. The FRDM-KL25Z Freescale Freedom development platform is now included in the mbed hardware lineup, supported by the well-established mbed online development community.

Freescale Semiconductor is licensing the ARM Cortex-A50 series of microprocessors for future versions of its i.MX applications processor and QorIQ communications processor product lines. This agreement is part of a new multiyear subscription license with ARM that demonstrates Freescale’s commitment to the ARM architecture and its intent to further expand its ARM Powered portfolio – one of the industry’s broadest range of solutions built on ...

As the Internet of Things expands to include greater numbers of small, intelligent, battery-operated devices, the MCUs that enable these devices must deliver performance, energy efficiency and connectivity in progressively smaller footprints. Freescale Semiconductor is addressing the miniaturization trend with its new Kinetis KL02 MCU–the world’s smallest ARM Powered MCU.

The Technology Partnership has selected Freescale Semiconductor’s RF solutions and QorIQ Qonverge BSC9131 base station-on-chip as the foundation of an innovative, low-cost solution for delivering high-speed broadband service over white space spectrum.

The airbag evaluation platform is based on chipsets from Freescale's Qorivva 32-bit MCU family and Bosch's Airbag ASSP family and works with sensors from both companies. Listen to Pascal Bernard and Andres Barrilado as they talk about what the airbag evaluation platform does.

Underscoring its continued focus on the fast-growing data center market, Freescale Semiconductor introduces the C29x family of crypto coprocessors – a new lineup of security accelerators engineered to help the world’s top data center equipment manufacturers efficiently scale to handle dramatic increases in secure network traffic.