Date: 21/11/2012

Microcontroller chips for IoT application design

With IPV6 launch there is nothing which can not be linked to Internet. What is required to design Internet of Things application is a processor chip with communication interface consuming extremely low power and taking up smallest space. On the market data it is estimated that there will be 50 billion internet connected devices by 2020. If you are looking for Microcontroller chips for Internet of Things applications, here we suggest some of the MCU chips launched recently.

Silicon Labs has launched SiM3L1xx 32bit MCUs for smart metering, utility monitoring, home automation, wireless security, asset tracking, personal medical devices and other power sensitive applications. Further details of this chip is available at:
http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/lowpower/Pages/SiM3L1xx.aspx

NXP Semiconductors N.V. has launched wireless microcontrollers with 2.45-GHz radio and analog peripherals. JN516x supports JenNet-IP, ZigBee Light Link, ZigBee Smart Energy, ZigBee Home Automation and RF4CE. The JN516x family features up to 256 kB of embedded flash, 4 kB of on-chip EEPROM and 32 kB of RAM. Also features in-packet antenna diversity to allow systems to choose the best antenna on every packet received.

The JN5168 targets applications ranging from smart lighting and home automation to building automation and wireless sensor networks.

More info at http://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers/wireless_microcontrollers/JN5168.html

Freescale has made available Kinetis L series family featuring 48 MHz ARM Cortex-M0+ core, High-speed 12/16-bit analog-to-digital converters, 12-bit digital-to-analog converters, High-speed analog comparators, and Low-power touch sensing.

More info at:
www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/taxonomy.jsp?code=KINETIS_L_SERIES