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News Release from: Silicon Laboratories | Subject: C8051T630 family
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 March 2008
Budget MCUs save with OTP EPROM
Small-form-factor microcontrollers are ideal for consumer and industrial applications that are under increasing cost pressure but still demand comprehensive product features.
Silicon Laboratories has expanded its range of small-form-factor microcontrollers with the C8051T630 family of 8bit MCUs Pin-for-pin compatible with Silicon Labs' C8051F330 family, the T630 devices are low-cost feature-rich EPROM-based MCUs that give customers the ability to easily interchange the two MCU families for a given product platform
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The T630 family is based on a patented, pipelined, single-cycle 8051 core that delivers up to 25MIPS of CPU bandwidth while providing high functional density per square millimetre.
The MCU integrates a 10bit, 500Ksample/s ADC with an on-chip voltage reference that can perform faster and more accurate measurements than found in most small form factor MCUs.
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The T630 also offers a true analogue output with its 10bit DAC that can be used for sensor excitation, fast-responsive control or high-end user output.
Additional on-chip features include a voltage regulator and precision internal oscillator ultimately reducing the number of external components and reducing the size and cost of the end product.
Systems using the T630 family can be designed and prototyped using the F330 family Flash memory equivalent and then switched to T630 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 T630 including a socket to program OTP EPROM.
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.
The C8051T630 small-form-factor MCU family is available now with pricing beginning at US $0.62 in quantities of 10,000.
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