TI's new low-cost floating-point Piccolo™ MCUs provide optimized performance and power line communications capabilities for energy-efficient applications

15+ new C2000™ Piccolo real-time control MCUs deliver floating-point core, new Viterbi Complex Math Unit (VCU) and control-oriented peripheral options

　Bridging the gap between low-cost Piccolo and high-performance Delfino™ floating-point microcontrollers (MCUs), Texas Instruments Incorporated today announced its new low-cost TMS320F2806x Piccolo floating-point MCUs. Rooted in TI's 25+ years of digital signal processing leadership, the new Piccolo MCUs offer an enhanced math engine specifically designed to simplify programming and optimize performance in real-time control applications that may require integrated communications. Developers of energy-efficient motor control and renewable energy applications can now use a single F2806x MCU to cost-effectively execute control loops as well as power line communications (PLC) protocols and modulation schemes. Balancing performance with the integration and ease-of-use inherent to MCUs, the new F2806x MCUs also deliver a broader range of connectivity and memory options and are backed by TI's robust tools and free controlSUITE™ software.


Key features and benefits of F2806x Piccolo floating-point MCUs

● Cutting-edge math engine comprised of 80 MHz floating-point C28x™ core, new Viterbi Complex
　Math Unit (VCU) and Control Law Accelerator (CLA) options.

● Floating-point core greatly eases programming, improves compatibility with meta-language tools,
　and improves performance by up to 40% over fixed point.

● New VCU complex math unit provides 75 tailored math instructions to accelerate processing of
　communications algorithms, such as those for PLC, by a factor of up to 7X

● Increased communications and throughput via USB 2.0 full-speed (host and device),
　CAN and direct memory access (DMA).

● 15+ MCUs provide an increased memory range of 52 – 100KB RAM, 128 – 256 KB flash
　as well as options for 80 and 100 pin packages.

● Control-oriented peripherals, including industry's highest resolution PWMs (150ps),
　3 MSPS 12-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and 3 analog comparators with 10-bit reference.

● Low-cost F2806x controlSTICK and modular controlCARD enable easy evaluation with
　TI's compatible experimenter and real-world hardware application development tools.

● Free controlSUITE™ software includes application and math libraries with source code
　as well as detailed documentation so developers can easily, fully harness F2806x features.

● IQmath Library for code compatibility and scaling throughout the C2000 platform,
　including the low-cost Piccolo series and high-performance Delfino floating-point series.