Date: 22/11/2008

ST Micro joins collaborated effort by MIT lab to produce ultra-low power MCUs

ST Microelectronics has joined the Microsystems Industrial Group (MIG) industry consortium at the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL), of prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The Microsystems Industrial Group is an exclusive industry consortium that was founded in the 1980s to support Microsystems Technology Laboratories infrastructure and provide direction to the MTL research and educational objectives in consultation with the faculty. ST Micro is the first European company to join the group.


"By joining MTL, ST Micro will be able to push its research efforts to fully exploit 'near-threshold' technology and reach far below the actual power consumption limits of energy-efficient System-on-Chip solutions," said Elio Guidetti, Director for Ultra Low Power Platforms, Advanced System Technology, STMicroelectronics. "This technology can enable the development of an entirely new generation of microcontrollers for wireless sensors and portable medical devices."