8 and 32bit MCUs deliver migration flexibility

Flexis QE microcontrollers offer pin-for-pin, development tool and peripheral set compatibility between 8 and 32bit devices.

Mouser Electronics is now stocking the fully qualified Flexis microcontroller series from Freescale Semiconductor.

An industry first, the Flexis QE devices offer pin-for-pin, development tool and peripheral set compatibility between 8 and 32bit devices.

The QE products currently include 64- and 80-pin versions of 8 and 32bit microcontrollers that make the design process quick, easy, and limitless - delivering the ultimate in migration flexibility.

"Freescale's advanced Flexis microcontrollers offer our design engineering customers a unique scalability for their new projects", says Mike Scott, Mouser Vice President of Active Products.

"Customers can utilise the same footprint on the board for their entry-level as well as full-featured products, maximising their investments in new designs".

The Flexis family enables migration between low-end and high-performance embedded design with exceptional ease, speed, cost-effectiveness, and ultra-low-power operating efficiency.

The compatible architectures and tools make it easy to expand into new embedded markets without having to invest heavily in software rewrites and conversion to a new architecture.

The Flexis series provides the 8 to 32bit "connection point" on Freescale's Controller Continuum - the industry's only roadmap for compatible 8 and 32bit architectures.

This enables developers to migrate between low-end and high-performance embedded designs with exceptional ease, speed, cost-effectiveness, and with ultra-low-power operating efficiency.

The Flexis devices offer industry-leading ultra-low-power features to help minimise operating costs and extend battery life.

The MCUs can run off an external 32kHz oscillator that consumes less than 1uA of current, have an internal voltage regulator that enables fast wake up from stop modes with a typical wake-up time of 6us, and stop modes with extremely low power that offers 370nA of current in the lowest power stop mode.

Clock gating can disable clocks to unused modules, further reducing run-mode power consumption by as much as 33%.

By providing a clear migration path and low power consumption, the Flexis MCUs open up a wide range of possibilities in a variety of consumer and industrial applications, including health care instrumentation and monitoring, factory automation, point-of-sale equipment, fire and security systems, HVAC and building control, metering and consumer appliances.

The compatible architectures and tools make it easy to expand into new embedded markets without having to invest heavily in software rewrites and conversion to a new architecture.

To ease board design, the full-featured EVBQE128 evaluation board and the cost-effective DEMOQE128 demonstration board, as well as an extensive library of reference designs and application notes are available.

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