Toshiba Electronics Europe claims to be showing the first ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller which works from a single 5V supply at Embedded World this week.
The TMPM380FY is the first in a series of 5V Cortex-M3 devices aimed at embedded designs for industrial and white goods applications.
On-chip peripherals will interface directly with motor drives and control IGBTs.
There is 256kbyte of on-chip flash memory and 16kbyte of on-chip RAM.
See also: Toshiba adds 2Mbyte of flash to Cortex-M3 MCU
A 3-channel 16-bit multi-purpose timer provides a function that combines three-phase PWM control with an ADC trigger and a protection circuit.
The timer can be used to deliver an externally triggered 16-bit PPG output for IGBT control.
For motor drive application there is an 18-channel 12-bit ADC, a 2-channel encoder input circuit, a watchdog timer and a real-time clock.
The encoder circuit is designed to offer a three-phase sensor input and supports rotation direction and absolute position detection.
A 2-channel synchronous serial bus interface supports SPI flame, SSI flame and Microwire flame formats.
Toshiba can supply the new microcontroller in a 100-pin QFP or 100-pin LQFP package.
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