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RTEC10 is an index made up of 10 public companies which have revenue that is derived primarily from sales in the embedded sector. The companies are made up of both software and hardware companies being traded on public exchanges.

COMPANY PRICE
(USD)
CHANGE
 
Adlink
1.30
6.974%
Advantech
3.01
-0.448%
Concurrent Comp
3.60
0.559%
-   Elma474.000.000%
Enea
5.25
-3.014%
Interphase
5.21
1.559%
Kontron
8.16
1.886%
Mercury Comp
14.51
3.348%
Performance Tech
1.83
-0.109%
PLX
3.24
0.621%
Radisys
7.44
0.677%
52 WK HIGH 52 WK LOW MKT CAP (Million USD)
1.30
1.17
178.73
3.05
3.01
1,661.08
3.69
3.55
33.13
474.00474.00108.30
5.34
5.00
92.71
5.38
5.12
35.92
8.18
7.95
454.62
14.72
14.33
444.16
1.85
1.79
20.34
3.29
3.20
144.29
7.54
7.39
206.36
RTEC10 Index: 645.57 (1.83%)
RTEC10 is sponsored by VDC research

Microcontrollers

8- 16- or 32-bit processors with integrated special features such as peripherals and interfaces that are targeted for control applications

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16-bit MCU Family Combines eXtreme Low Power 20 nA Sleep Currents

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The Three Faces of Embedded

Do you ever find it a challenge to explain to your spouse or children what you do for a living? Everybody knows PCs—in fact, in many ways our children know them much better than we do.Read More...

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DSP-Based Servo Motion Controllers with Full Closed-Loop Control

DSP-Based Servo Motion Controllers with Full Closed-Loop Control Two DSP-based servo motion controllers handle three or six axes of control. The PCI-8253 (three axes) andRead More...

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Low-Power, 8-bit Microcontrollers With 5V Operation, 20 nA Sleep

A line of low-power, high-performance 8-bit microcontrollers provides features such as operation from 1.8 to 5.5V, numerous communication channels, 8 to 128 KbyteRead More...

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Low-Power 8-bit MCUs Feature LCD Driver, 5V O and On-Chip 12-bit ADC

A new low-power, 5V 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) family includes an on-chip LCD driver module and 12-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC). The PIC18F “K90” family fromRead More...

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Tightly Integrated Devices Yield More Efficient Motor Control

Motor controls are comprised of the power electronics that control the application of voltage and current to the motor. Digital motor controllers manage the power electronics toRead More...

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Microcontrollers Integrate USB and Large RAM for Throughput and Data Buffering

A four-member microcontroller integrates USB for Embedded Host/Peripheral/On-the-Go and 96 Kbytes of RAM. This large RAM enables the buffering of sizeable amounts of data andRead More...

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Development Board Eases Design With 16-bit MCUs and DSCs

A new small development board provides a complete, low-cost solution for designing with Microchip’s 16-bit PIC24H microcontrollers and dsPIC33F Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs),Read More...

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Digital Medical Devices Fueling a Quiet Revolution in Health Care

With all the attention that health care has gotten in the media in recent months, there appears to be a development that has largely escaped widespread notice. That is the migration ofRead More...

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Transitioning From Analog to Digital in Medical Designs

The burgeoning medical device industry stands to make significant advances with a new generation of microcontrollers that boasts high performance and low power consumption. TheseRead More...

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Using Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs for Hardware Platform Management

Sophisticated systems that are designed to be highly dependable usually include some sort of platform management function that monitors and manages the health of the hardware,Read More...

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Implementing Precision High-Speed Linear Motion Control

Developing high-performance motion control applications requires that a design engineer not only be able to select the proper components, but also be able to tune these components forRead More...

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MPUs team with FPGAs to Solve Real-Time System Requirements

When choosing the heart of a processing system, many embedded designers have the impression that they must pick either an FPGA or a microprocessor. In reality, design teams can oftenRead More...

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Sunshine on the Highway, Power to the Grid

I’m sure that by now all of us have heard that admonition to “think outside the box” so many times that it has long since become a cliché. The idea of thinking outside the box is soRead More...

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32-bit PIC Microcontroller Portfolio with Additional Memory Options

A new, six-member family of 32-bit PIC32MX5/6/7 microcontrollers from Microchip Technology provides the same integrated Ethernet, CAN, USB and serial connectivity peripherals with new,Read More...

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Security Considerations in Embedded I/O Virtualization

In any embedded system, there is inevitably a need for sharing a limited set of physical I/O peripherals across workloads. The embedded operating system provides abstractions, such asRead More...

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Right Sizing the Micro: Homing in on the Right MCU for the Job

When starting an embedded control project, the first question that inevitably comes up is, “Which microcontroller should I use?” Should I go for a low-cost micro and migrate up, orRead More...

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Configurable and Programmable: The Sweet Spot for the SoC

The February issue of RTC included the article titled, “MPUs Team with FPGAs to Solve Real-Time System Requirements,” a brief history of how FPGAs have evolved and how the programmableRead More...

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System-on-Module Packs Performance into Ultra-Small Form Factor

A new system-on-module (SoM) is implemented in an ultra-small form factor of only 15 x 27 x 3.8 mm using the Texas Instruments DaVinci DM3730 and Sitara AM3703 processors running atRead More...