Texas Instruments has added no fewer than 31 ARM processor-based devices to its microcontroller offering.
The first two devices in the Sitara family, the AM3505 and AM3517 are the first Cortex-A8 processor-based devices from the firm for industrial applications.
Superscalar 500MHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor provides 1000 Dhrystone MIPS, which provides the performance to run full featured operating systems and web browsers.
The device's sub-one Watt power consumption in typical applications can remove the need for heat sinks and fans.
USB 2.0 high-speed support includes on-chip PHY and there is an 10/100 EMAC for network communications, control of industrial devices and remote rebooting.
Software compatible with TI’s OMAP processors
According to Mike Inglis, executive v-p processor division, ARM, he sees TI as a long-term partner who has shipped more than five billion ARM-based devices.
There are 29 Stellaris Cortex-M3 microcontrollers and the first two devices in the firm's Sitara family of ARM9 family and Cortex-A8 technology-based microprocessors.
The company has also dropped the price of its range of Stellaris MCUs which were acquired earlier this year when TI bought Luminary Micro.
The 29 Stellaris MCUs join the existing 138 MCUs that range from 20MHz to 100MHz and 8K flash to 256K flash.
See: TI completes microcontroller plan with Cortex-M3