Date: 08/10/2012

TI offers new 32-bit C2000 Concerto dual-core microcontrollers

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has announced its latest 32-bit C2000 Concerto microcontrollers for motor control, renewable energy and smart grid applications that need power conversion, remote data sharing, diagnostics, monitoring and control from a single device. The new Concerto F28M36x microcontrollers integrate real-time, precise control provided by its C28x digital signal processor and advanced connectivity enabled through its ARM Cortex-M3 core, plus on-chip peripherals.

The dual-core Concerto microcontrollers are supported by C2000's controlSUITE software that includes an intuitive software ecosystem, application libraries, demos and examples, as well as TI's Eclipse-based Code Composer Studio integrated development environment (IDE) v5.
TI-RTOS, a new, scalable real-time operating system (RTOS), is fully integrated with the Code Composer Studio IDE and available at no cost and royalty free. It offers low-overhead communication mechanisms between the ARM Cortex-M3 and C28x cores, helping developers to get started right out of the box and easily exchange command-and-control data buffers. These Concerto microcontrollers are code compatible across the entire C2000 microcontroller platform for scalability and code reuse in energy-efficient applications.

Features:
1. Real-time control subsystem with TI's C28x 150 Mhz digital signal processor with floating point and the Viterbi Complex Math Unit.
2. 289-pin (ball), 16x16 mm nFBGA package with .8 mm ball pitch.
3. Control peripherals for control and power conversion in energy-efficient applications.
4. Robust host communication subsystem based on 125 Mhz Cortex-M3 and connectivity peripherals such as Ethernet, USB On-The-Go, dual CAN and multiple serial communication ports.
5. High-performance pulse-width modulation (PWM) peripherals
6. Memory includes up to 1.5 MB of flash and 232 KB RAM for storage.
7. TI-RTOS for builds on the SYSBIOS real-time kernel and controlSUITE middleware and peripheral libraries and offers TCP/IP, USB host and device, a FAT file system, and drivers all completely integrated and tested in a multithreaded environment.

The new Concerto F28M36x Experimenter Kit includes a Concerto F28M36x controlCARD and docking station to provide developers to start evaluation and development.

Each microcontroller costs $6.99 in quantities of 1,000 units. The Concerto F28M36x Experimenter Kit (TMDXDOCK28M36) is priced at $195, and the controlCARD (TMXCDCNF28M36) is available for $145.

For more information: www.ti.com/concerto-f28m36-pr-tr

Source: Texas Instruments