Date: 09/10/2008

New series of 125MHz flash microcontrollers based on ARM968 core

NXP Semiconductors launched the new LPC2900 series of microcontrollers based on the ARM968ES RISC core operating at 125 MHz. Building on its existing LPC291x series, NXP offers seven new members with the LPC2900 microcontroller series.

The new LPC2900 series also includes several new features that are not available on any ARM968 MCU.

The key features are,

1. Up to 768 KB of on-chip high-speed flash
2. Full Speed USB Host/On-The-Go/Device
3. 16 KB of true byte erasable EEPROM
4. 16C550 UARTs with RS485 and LIN support
5. Quadrature Encoder Interface
6. Motor Control PWMs
7. Provides high performance (1.1MIPS/MHz) with low power consumption.
8. Two LIN masters
9. Two 3V 10-bit ADCs with 8-channels each
10. One 5V 10-bit ADC with 8-channels
11. Up to 120 KB total SRAM including Up to 56 KB SRAM and two 32 KB tightly coupled Memories.
12. Up to ten 32-bit timers, including the PWM timers
13. General Purpose Direct Memory Access (GP DMA)
14. 2 CAN channels for industrial Gateways
15. 3 x Q-SPI
16. 2 x I2C-bus interfaces
17. External Memory interface
18. Embedded Trace Module (ETM) and 8 KB SRAM

Availability: The NXP LPC2900 series of microcontrollers is available in October.

For further information visit: http://www.nxp.com