Line-up of ARM Cortex-M-based microcontrollers expanded

Toshiba Electronics Europe is to enhance its portfolio of ARM Cortex-based microcontrollers with the development of the new TXZ family of microcontrollers that support low-power consumption and high-speed operation for IoT and M2M ecosystems.

The new TXZ family has been designed to meet market needs for low power consumption systems by integrating the ultra-low power design technologies adopted in Toshiba’s TZ series of ApP Lite application processor family for IoT solutions into current TX family of microcontrollers.

Fabricated using a newly developed embedded flash memory process based on a 65nm logic process, the TXZ series will reduce power consumption by 60% compared to Toshiba’s current microcontroller products.

The first product group will be the TMPM3H, part of the TXZ3 series that will be based on ARM Cortex-M3 core. The TMPM3H group will feature products characterized by small packages with pin counts of 32-100 pins, flash memory capacities of 32KB-128KB and standard peripheral functions. Toshiba expects the devices to reduce entire system power consumption, targeting less than 100uA/MHz for the microcontrollers. Sample shipments will start in the second quarter of 2016, says the company.