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News Release from: Silicon Laboratories | Subject: C8051T610
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 December 2007
Low-cost 8bit MCUs have small footprints
The C8051T610 family is ideal for consumer and industrial applications that are under increasing cost pressure.
Silicon Laboratories has expanded its family of small-form-factor microcontrollers with the C8051T610 family of low-cost 8bit MCUs Pin compatible with the company's C8051F310 family, the T610 offers customers a cost-effective alternative in the same small footprint
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The C8051T610 family is ideal for consumer and industrial applications that are under increasing cost pressure, including toys, camera modules, cellphone accessories, portable devices, home appliances and motor controllers.
The T610 features byte-programmable EPROM that can be initially programmed while still leaving room for programming memory at a later time, making the T610's EPROM more flexible than traditional one-time-programmable memory.
The T610 is based on a patented, pipelined, single-cycle 8051 core that delivers up to 25MIPS of CPU bandwidth while providing high functional density with on-chip high-performance features such as a highly accurate ADC for analogue measurement, voltage regulator and precision internal oscillator ultimately reducing the number of external components and reducing the size and cost of the end-product.
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Silicon Laboratories' small-form-factor MCUs provide "four-corner operation", which means they do not require special operating conditions to achieve the optimal datasheet specifications.
The CPU is designed to operate at 25MHz over the entire allowed operating temperature and power supply voltage ranges.
ADC speed and accuracy is also guaranteed over the entire allowed temperature and voltage supply range with the CPU operating at full speed.
The onboard precision oscillator is designed and calibrated to two% for worst case temperature and supply voltage so the accuracy always meets the minimum specification.
Systems using the T610 family can be designed and prototyped using the F310 family Flash memory equivalent and then switched to T610 without any hardware changes.
A full-featured development kit is available containing all the hardware and software required to develop an embedded system using the T610 including a socket to program EPROM.
"The C8051T610 product family adds to Silicon Laboratories' portfolio of more than 70 high performance small form factor MCUs, giving customers the broadest range of options for their space-constrained applications", says Derrell Coker, Vice President of Silicon Laboratories.
"Pin compatibility with our other popular devices allows engineers to migrate between different features and capabilities when upgrading performance or reducing system cost".
The C8051T610 small-form-factor MCU family is available now with pricing beginning at US $1.09 in quantities of 10,000.
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