16bit MCU has 32bit capabilities

Sequoia Technology is introducing a new 16bit microcontroller with 32bit capability, ideal for high-speed office equipment, communications and industrial equipment applications.

Sequoia Technology is introducing a new 16bit microcontroller with 32bit capability, ideal for high-speed office equipment, communications and industrial equipment applications.

The low power M16C/80 from Mitsubishi typically consumes just 45mA at 5V/20MHz and incorporates an enhanced instruction set for higher operating efficiency together with a range of highly beneficial 32bit processing operations which include subtraction, compare, transfer index and indirect addressing.

M16C/80 includes a 24bit addressing mode, enabling average instruction execution to take just two cycles with a minimum execution time of only 50ns.

For frequently used instructions the MCU uses a single cycle to process simple instructions and just two or three cycles for highly functional complex instructions.

Alternative RISC processing would require three or four instructions, whereas M16C/80 completes equivalent operations in a single instruction, taking just a few cycles.

Additional new features of the MCU group include instruction cycle reduction, operating frequency enhancement, improved memory usage and C language code efficiency as well as high speed interrupt processing.

Further features include a 106 basic instruction set, a ten-channel 10bit ADC, a two-channel 8bit DAC, an I2C bus and a four-channel DMA controller.

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