More performance for ARM-based MCUs

ARM926EJ-based microcontrollers target consumer, industrial, medical and automotive applications.

NXP Semiconductors has expanded its portfolio of ARM7 and ARM9 microcontrollers with the introduction of the LPC3200 family.

The NXP LPC3200 family is based on the popular ARM926EJ processor and targets consumer, industrial, medical and automotive applications providing designers with a high-performance power efficient microcontroller.

The NXP LPC3200 microcontroller family consists of the LPC3220, LPC3230, LPC3240 and LPC3250.

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

The MCUs offer embedded designers the ability to reduce on-chip components and maximise power savings without sacrificing performance.

"It is clear that the 32bit market continues to outpace the growth of the 16bit and 8bit markets".

"We developed the LPC3200 family building on the strong success of our LPC2000 and LPC3000 to meet demand for higher performance MCUs", says Geoff Lees, Vice President and General Manager, Microcontroller Product Line, NXP Semiconductors.

"NXP's goal is to continue to provide our customers with the broadest ARM MCU offering in the industry".

Designed for flexibility in applications that require fast, simultaneous communications, the LPC3200 combines high-performance, low power consumption and a myriad of peripherals.

The features include I2C, I2S, SPI, SSP, UARTs, USB, OTG, SD, PWMs, A/D with touch-screen interfaces, 10/100 Ethernet MAC and a 24bit LCD controller that supports STN and TFT panels.

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

The NXP LPC3200 family of microcontrollers will be sampling in April with volume shipping in Q3 2008.

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