By Axel Streicher – As a founding member of the OPEN Alliance SIG (One-Pair Ether-Net Special Interest Group), Freescale hosted the second 2012 Promoter and All Members face-to-face meeting in its Munich, Germany, facility this month.

Freescale Semiconductor is demonstrating dual-PAN functionality with its new generation of Kinetis wireless solutions. As the deployment of IEEE 802.15.4 ZigBee networks continues to expand, multiple ZigBee networks (including ZigBee Home Automation, ZigBee RF4CE and ZigBee Smart Energy versions 1.x and 2.0) may exist simultaneously in a home or building.

By Cherif Assad – At the Ludwigsburg Elektronik Congress last year, German carmakers including Audi, BMW, Daimler, Porsche and Volkswagen agreed on 48V embedded supply to support the growing current load requirements in modern vehicles.

Freescale Semiconductor’s award-winning Kinetis L series, the world’s most energy-efficient microcontrollers and the first built on the ARM Cortex-M0+ processor, is now broadly available.

Freescale Semiconductor’s QorIQ P1022 processor is powering Synology’s DiskStation DS413 network-attached storage server, which won the prestigious “Best Choice Award” at Computex 2012. The QorIQ P1022 processor is designed to provide dual-core performance and innovative, packet-lossless energy management capabilities for networking applications such as the Synology DS413.

Exploding IP traffic rates and the proliferation of smarter, bandwidth-hungry consumer devices are dramatically increasing demands on the world’s networks. To help address these challenges, wireless infrastructure equipment manufacturer Dialogic, a leading provider of products and technologies that enable operators to provide – and subscribers to enjoy – an enhanced mobile experience, has selected high-performance processing solutions from ...

In a move intended to improve automotive safety systems, Freescale Semiconductor is licensing Image Cognition Processing intellectual property from CogniVue Corporation that will be incorporated into new processors for advanced driver assistance systems. Freescale will be the exclusive provider of this technology to the automotive market.

Now it's easier for automotive electronics suppliers to develop functionally safe systems in compliance with the International Standards Organization's (ISO) 26262 standard. The Qorivva MPC5643L 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) was recently certified by exida, an independent accredited assessor, making it the industry's first semiconductor product to achieve the certification. This MCU, built on Power Architecture® technology, is designed for use...

By Laurent Emmerich – Coupled with high-speed internet connectivity and intuitive human machine interfaces (HMI), our cars have become smart devices on wheels. Dashboards that once featured basic audio systems are being replaced with multimedia and entertainment systems that stream data from the internet, mirroring many of the features that we access in our homes and our smart mobile devices. Printed maps are being replaced with sexy naviga...

The Freescale SafeAssure functional safety program is designed to help you simplify the process of achieving system compliance with functional safety standards in the automotive and industrial markets

Two new devices designed to reduce system complexity and shorten time to market for one- and two-cylinder small engines are now available. The one-cylinder (MC33813) and two-cylinder (MC33814) electronic control semiconductors are for transportation, industrial and consumer applications. The ICs compliment and extend Freescale’s motorcycle engine control unit (ECU) reference platform, which contains Freescale's MC9S12 MCU

Freescale has announced the release of new high-performance, low-power three-axis accelerometers in a 2x2 mm ultra-compact package. The pin-compatible Xtrinsic MMA8652FC 12-bit and MMA8653FC 10-bit accelerometers provide low noise and advanced motion accuracy for power- and space-constrained mobile devices, including smart phones, tablets, digital cameras, portable navigation solutions and health care applications.

Freescale Semiconductor today announced availability of its one-cylinder (MC33813) and two-cylinder (MC33814) electronic control semiconductors for small internal combustion engines for transportation, industrial and consumer applications. These analog integrated circuits for small engine control reduce design complexity, bill of materials and manufacturing costs, while helping shorten the customer’s time to market. Reliability is improved ...

Freescale has collaborated with industrial technology partners to develop an advanced programmable logic controller reference platform based on Freescale’s dual-core QorIQ P1025 processor. The reference platform integrates well-established EtherCAT protocol software from KPA, PLC Firmware from ISaGRAF, and the QNX Neutrino real-time operating system to boost the functionality, reliability and performance of control applications communicating vi...

Freescale and the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics have revealed that they have jointly developed a space vector modulated - direct torque control solution for industrial motor control. The SVM-DTC solution, based on Freescale’s 56F8xxx digital signal controller series, is cost-efficient and helps speed time to market for motor/compressor control applications.

Two years after selecting Freescale’s MSC8156 digital signal processor as a key processing engine for its latest generation of TD-SCDMA base stations, Huawei has deployed installations based on the Freescale device.

Freescale have today revealed financial results for the second quarter ended June 29, 2012. Freescale's quarterly earnings call is scheduled to begin at 4:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time on July 19, 2012. The company will offer a live webcast of the conference call over the Internet at www.freescale.com/investor. Highlights include:

Addressing market demand for RF power devices featuring enhanced ruggedness and wideband operation over a broad frequency range, Freescale has released two highly versatile devices engineered to deliver new levels of linearity and ruggedness for RF power products manufactured using LDMOS process technology.

Freescale has announced the release of three RF power amplifiers that deliver the industry’s highest levels of ruggedness, stability and gain for land mobile applications. The LDMOS power amplifiers are the newest additions to Freescale’s rapidly expanding portfolio of Airfast RF power products, and are engineered to perform flawlessly in extreme operating conditions.

Did you know that Freescale delivered the world’s first silicon based pressure sensor for automobile engine control in 1980? Thirty years later, we are continuing this path of innovation by introducing the first fully integrated tire pressure monitor system. This System-in-a-Package senses the outside world through pressure, inertial, temperature, and battery life sensors, providing intelligence with an embedded microcontroller and software...