Devices offer lower cost and temperature

Six new devices in Motorola's MPC500 processor family address cost-sensitive applications and those with extreme temperature requirements. In response to customers that were hiring independent test firms to test and screen for processor devices that would operate below the –40 to +125°C temperature range, Motorola's MPC555 and MPC566 32-bit microcontrollers operate at –55 to +125°C. These devices feature a PowerPC core that integrates 26 to 52 kbytes of SRAM; queued, serial, multichannel modules for UART and SPI support; two ADC modules with as many as 40 analog-input channels; two or three CAN (controller-area-network) modules; and 22 timing channels that support PWM. Both extreme-temperature devices are available for production orders for $89.16 and $107.29 (10,000).

Motorola's MPC533, MPC534, MPC535, and MPC536 devices offer a low-cost entry into the MPC500 family and target computationally intensive, rather than I/O-intensive, applications. The devices integrate a PowerPC core with 32 or 36 kbytes of SRAM, a 10-bit ADC, and 512 to 1024 kbytes of flash with code-compression support on the MPC534 and MPC536 devices. They support a –40 to +85°C temperature range with a power consumption of 0.8W at 40 MHz. All of the devices are now available for production orders at prices of $21.70 to $39.07 (10,000).

Motorola, 1-512-895-2000, www.motorola.com.