NXP Semiconductors has introduced four ARM9-based microcontrollers.

"Designed in 90nm process, the LPC3200 family combines the performance of an ARM926EJ core, a vector floating point unit, an LCD controller, an Ethernet MAC, On-The-Go USB, an efficient bus matrix and a large set of standard peripherals," said the firm.

The family is aimed at consumer, industrial, medical and automotive applications.

"It is clear that the 32bit market continues to outpace the growth of the 16bit and 8bit markets," said Geoff Lees, v-p of the firm's microcontroller product line, NXP Semiconductors. "We developed the LPC3200 family building on our LPC2000 and LPC3000 to meet demand for higher performance MCUs."

Feature include interfaces for multiple serial bus standards, PWMs, A/D with touch-screen interfaces, a 10/100 Ethernet MAC and a 24bit LCD controller that supports STN and TFT panels.

The family supports DDR, SDR, SRAM and flash memory and provides the option of booting-up from NAND Flash, SPI memory, UART or SRAM.

Sampling begins in April with volume shipping this third quarter.

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