Texas Instruments says that he has decreased the size of the smallest microcontroller unit of its industry with a new MCU the size of a black pepperflage.
MCU packaging is only 1.38 square millimeters and is part of the company’s range of Cortex Arm designs. TI says that the product is aimed at small products, including portable medical devices, headphones, styles and electric toothbrushes. The product includes a 12 -bit analog converter And a 16 ko of flash memory and 1 ko of SRAM and operates at 24 MHz.
The diminutive system is known as MSPM0C1104. Alas, it is as catchy as possible (no pepper for this piece of technology).
TI says that the microcontroller costs 20 cents per unit in quantities of 1,000, which means that a company could start an army project for robots for $ 200. Ti shows this MCU and other MCU (not linked to Marvel) to Integrated world 2025 in Nuremberg, Germany.
Opens opportunities
William LukA Consultant and Technology Expert of Whenary Peak Research said that the withdrawal of the MCU opens opportunities in the areas where miniature devices were not possible before.
“One of the important verticals for micro-appearances is health care and surgeries: smart pills, integrated sensors or even surgical devices that can reach places like never before,” said Luk.
LUK also said that innovation may be sufficient to move Texas instruments in the MCU developer chain currently dominated by Stmicroelectronics, Infineon, NXP, Microchip and Renesas Electronics.
“With the new Ti MCU, we could see a new class of super micro-depositives not only targeting consumers but also commercial uses (such as health care). But there are also challenges such as government approval (for medical devices). The manufacture of these new microphone devices could also be difficult,” said Luk.
Correction, March 14: An earlier version of this story incorrectly listed the cost of the microcontroller. It costs 20 cents per unit.
