Date: 17/01/2011

TI's new low-cost floating-point Piccolo MCUs with powerline comm. Support

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has announced its new low-cost TMS320F2806x Piccolo floating-point MCUs. The new Piccolo MCUs featuring Viterbi Complex Math Unit (VCU) are suggested for design of energy-efficient motor control and renewable energy applications. These MCUs with Control Law Accelerator (CLA) option execute control loops as well as power line communications (PLC) protocols and modulation schemes.

TI says Floating-point core improves performance by up to 40% over fixed point.
New VCU complex math unit provides 75 tailored math instructions to accelerate processing of communications algorithms, such as those for PLC, by a factor of up to 7X
Increased communications and throughput via USB 2.0 full-speed (host and device), CAN and direct memory access (DMA), claims TI.
15+ MCUs available in memory range of 52 - 100KB RAM, 128 - 256 KB flash and in options of 80 and 100 pin packages.
Control-oriented peripherals, includes high resolution PWMs (150ps), 3 MSPS 12-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and 3 analog comparators with 10-bit reference.

Availability: Now in samples

Price: Start at $4.95 each (1K volumes)

Editorial Product Rating: ** (Average Plus)