Spansion Inc. today added 96 new products to the Spansion® FM4 Family of flexible microcontrollers (MCUs). Based on the ARM® Cortex®-M4F core, the new MCUs boast a 200 MHz operating frequency and support a diverse set of on-chip peripherals for enhanced human machine interfaces (HMIs) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. The rich set of peripherals and large memory allow single-chip solutions for a wide variety of applications including factory automation, industrial Internet of Things (IoT), motor control, office automation, building management systems, smart meters, digital cameras and multi-function printers.
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“With 200 MHz operating frequency and 2 MB flash, the S6E2C series MCUs support more than a dozen of the latest and most popular high-speed communications standards ideal for M2M communications and industrial IoT. The dual-bank flash array allows seamless over-the-air (OTA) in-application reprogramming,” said Dhiraj Handa, senior vice president and general manager, Spansion Multi-Market Microcontroller Business. “We also uniquely offer robust 5V I/O on a high-performance, large-memory MCU. This eases design since designers only need one regulator for a 5V MCU and can continue to use the 5V logic and power drivers common to industrial embedded applications.”
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Spansion flash has an industry-leading native 72 MHz access speed. The flash memory is divided into two independent sections which allows one to be erased and programmed while the other runs code. The high-density RAM supports the large memory requirements of operating systems and is very useful for buffering audio information or Ethernet traffic.
The S6E2C series MCUs accommodate the following interfaces: Ethernet – for high speed bulk data transfers; CAN and CAN-FD – for automotive and industrial time critical networks. CAN-FD allows a flexible data rate and larger packet size making it ideal for Industrial IoT; NOR flash, NAND flash, SDRAM and SRAM memory devices; Secure Digital Input Output (SDIO) – for high speed Wi-Fi chipsets and portable devices such as digital cameras, GPS navigation devices or handheld consoles; Full-speed Universal Serial Bus (USB) – Both host and device modes supported; Integrated Interchip Sound (I2S) – the standard interface for digital audio and connecting digital audio devices together; High Definition Multimedia Interface – Consumer Electronics Control (HDMI-CEC) – which enables one A/V component to control another; General purpose serial interface – Combination of up to 16 channels of UAR, SPI, I2C or LIN communication interfaces. The user determines which function is assigned to each channel.
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Spansion has boosted the motor control functionality by including 3 high-speed analog-to-digital converters and 3 complex timer blocks. Industrial and safety critical applications benefit from the programmable cyclic redundancy check for memory validation, flash ECC, a clock supervisor and dual watchdog timers. Spansion S6E2C series MCU samples are shipping now and production volumes will be available in the first quarter of 2015 starting at $10.00 per unit for minimum volumes of 1,500 units.
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