NXP has announced its intentions for its first microcontrollers based on ARM’s Cortex-M0 core.
“It plans to introduce the Cortex-M0 processor based LPC1100 series to the broad market at the beginning of 2010,” said a spokeswoman for NXP. “It will target battery applications, e-metering, consumer peripherals, remote sensors, and virtually all 16-bit applications.”
Along with the core will be an ADC, timers, serial interfaces and memory.
Operation
will be at 1-25MHz from an external crystal, or 12MHz from an internal RC oscillator.
See ARM's Cortex-M0 processor - how it works“The PLL allows CPU operation up to the maximum CPU rate without the need for a high-frequency crystal,” said NXP. “It may be run from the main oscillator,
the internal RC oscillator, or the watchdog oscillator.”
IOs can be used as edge and level sensitive interrupt sources, and will be slightly unusual in amongst the 15 outputs only one pin will be able to source “high-current” (20mA), and only two pins will sink up to 20mA.
An integrated power management unit will sort out consumption in modes dubbed sleep, deep-sleep, and deep powerdown.
Planned operating range is 1.8V to 3.6V and packaging will be 48pin LQFP or 33pin HVQFN.
NXP claims Cortex-M0 silicon will be demonstrated at the Embedded Systems Conference in Silicon Valley next week.