New MCUs for motor control in consumer and industrial equipment

Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH has released seven new 32-bit MCUs with Arm Cortex-M4 cores, expanding its motor control MCU lineup. These devices are ideal for FOC of up to two AC motors, BLDC motors and multiple types of inverter control such as variable frequency drives or servo drives.

All seven newly released devices feature CPU cores with an FPU and MPU, an internal oscillator of 10MHz (±1%), and a DMAC. They offer functional blocks for field oriented control of BLDC and PMSM motors such as advance-programmable motor drivers (A-PMD), advanced encoders 32-bit (A-ENC32), and high-speed/high-resolution 12-bit ADCs. The devices feature UART, TSPI and I²C as integrated general communication interfaces. New MCUs come with self-diagnosis functions for flash memory, RAM, ADC and Clock, helping designers achieve IEC 60730 Class B functional safety certification.

Six of the newly released devices constitute the new M4K group, which is included in the company's TXZ+ Family of MCUs. These MCUs operate at speeds up to 120MHz and have code flash memory options of 128KB or 256KB, and 18KB of RAM. The MCUs feature additionally an op-amp, operating at a voltage range of 2.7V to 5.5V, and are available in 0.5mm pitch LQFP64 (TMPM4K4FxBUG), 0.5mm pitch LQFP48 (TMPM4K2FxBDUG), and 0.8mm pitch LQFP44 (TMPM4K1FxBUG) packages.

The seventh new MCU, TMPM471F10FG, expands the company's M470 group, included in the TX04 Series. It operates at up to 160MHz and supports FOTA updates with its 1MB flash memory. The MCU operates at a voltage range of 4.5V to 5.5V and is available in a 0.5mm pitch LQFP100 package.