Smallest MCU Optimizes Size and Performance
According to Texas Instruments, it has developed the smallest microcontroller available, expanding the company's Arm Cortex-M0+ MSPM0 MCU portfolio. The 1.38-mm2 wafer chip-scale packaged (WCSP) MSPM0C1104 MCU enables designers to optimize board space without compromising performance.
Consumers are demanding that everyday electronic items offer more features in a smaller footprint at a lower cost. The MSPM0C1104 MCU leverages the advantages of WCSP packaging technology, along with intentional feature selection and TI's cost optimization efforts, to meet those demands.
Features include 16 kB of memory; a 12-bit analog-to-digital converter with three channels; six general-purpose input/output pins; and compatibility with communication interfaces such as Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART), Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), and Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C).
The MSPM0C1104 joins TI's MSPM0 MCU portfolio, featuring pin-to-pin compatible package options and feature sets to match memory, analog, and computing requirements in personal electronics, industrial, and automotive applications.
An optimized software development kit for all MSPM0 MCUs and a hardware development kit for rapid prototyping, along with reference designs and subsystems, are available, as are code examples for common MCU functions. TI's Zero Code Studio tool enables users to configure, develop, and run MCU applications in minutes without coding, taking advantage of the ecosystem to scale designs and reuse code without the need for significant hardware or software modifications.
