Date: 09/10/2008

Fast & low power ARM Cortex-M3 microcontrollers from NXP

NXP Semiconductors introduced the LPC1700 series, the industry's fastest microcontroller family based on the ARM Cortex & tradel-M3 processor. The chip runs at speeds up to 100 MHz.
NXP claims that the new LPC1700 series of microcontrollers operates from 28 - 64% faster than any competitive Cortex-M3 microcontroller available on the market today.
The LPC1700 series can run the high-bandwidth communications peripherals such as Ethernet, USB On-The-Go/Host/Device, and CAN simultaneously without bottlenecks.

The NXP LPC1700 microcontroller series offers the following features:

1. Support for communication peripherals including 10/100 Ethernet, USB On-The-Go/Host/Device and two CAN interfaces, all of which can operate simultaneously and without bus contention
2. A true 12-bit (ADC) and 10-bit (DAC)
3. Fast-Mode Plus (1 Mb/s) I²C bus, in addition to 4 UARTs, 3 SPI/SSP buses and an I²S bus
4. Real-Time Clock operating at less than 1 uA
5. A Memory Protection Unit (MPU) allowing memory regions to be defined as read-only and protect them from corruption
6. A Quadrature Encoder Interface and Motor Control Pulse Width Modulator (PWM) for flexible, powerful motor control
7. Revision 2 Cortex-M3 core with enhanced power down capabilities, including Wake-up Interrupt Controller
8. Pin compatibility with the NXP LPC2300 ARM7 microcontrollers series

The LPC1700 series targets a wide range of applications, including eMetering, lighting, industrial networking, alarm systems, white goods and motor control.

Engineering samples will be available starting in December 2008.

For more details visit: http://www.nxp.com