EDN's 19th Annual Innovation Awards Finalists
-- EDN, February 2, 2009
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&& PREVIOUS FINALIST | MAIN | NEXT FINALIST >> Category: Microcontrollers Finalist: Piccolo microcontrollers (Texas Instruments)  Texas Instruments’ Piccolo microcontrollers start at under $2 in volume and help make adoption of emerging sys-tems like solar micro-inverters more feasible by packing advanced digital power processing into a small, integrated form factor. Piccolo-based systems provide intelligent current control and system networking.The new 32-bit floating point math accelerator runs complex, high-speed control algorithms to free the CPU to handle I/O and feedback loop metrics, resulting in up to 5 times increased performance for common control-loop ap-plications. The on-chip enhanced pulse width modulators support frequency modulation down to 150 pico-seconds, enabling more control over harmonics and reduced sample-to-output delay. Piccolo microcontrollers include two on-chip oscillators operating at +/- 1 percent accuracy with triple-redundancy and self-test features to help designers achieve system-level safety certifications such as the IEC 60730 safety standard for European white goods. The 12-bit, 13/16-channel ADC supports up to 4.6 MSPS. |
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