问 Philips Takes 32-bit MCU to 90nm
Online staff -- Electronic News, 2/23/2005

Royal Philips Electronics has introduced the industry’s first ARM9 family based 32-bit microcontroller family at the 90 nanometer process technology level.

Smaller die size for the product means lower cost, said Ata Khan, director of product innovation for the company’s microcontrollers product line. And in addition, Philips has lowered the power requirements for this family of device.

Sampling in Q2, Philips' LPC3000 family products will operate at 200MHz and feature a large array of standard communication peripherals to reduce system logic, thus further reducing power and costs, Philips said in a statement. These include up to 7 UARTs, SPI, USB, real-time clock, the NAND flash interface and others - such as Ethernet - to follow. The family also features a vector floating-point coprocessor for full support of single-precision and double-precision calculations at CPU clock speeds, which is important for signal processing applications such as motor control.

The LPC3000 family is based on Philips' Nexperia platform and is manufactured at the company’s 300 mm Crolles2 pilot facility Philips shares with Freescale Semiconductor and STMicroelectronics in Crolles, France.  

The new devices are designed to help system designers in their continuous quest to improve power dissipation, especially in handheld consumer devices where longer battery life is a crucial selling point.

Philips' ARM9 family-based LPC3000 MCU family allows for 1V operation - reducing power dissipation nine times over 3V devices, the company said. The ARM9 family also provides several power management benefits including the ability to go into a low-power state until an interrupt or debug request occurs. Peripherals such as integrated USB On-the-Go (OTG) and full USB Open Host Controller Interface (OHCI) host capability eliminate the need for an external controller, further reducing power consumption as well as cost.

The 32-bit microcontroller market is forecast to grow from $2.7 billion in 2004 to $6.7 billion in 2009, according to Brian Matas of IC Insights.

“Philips is in a good position to meet the price and performance requirements of the growing market with its new ARM9 90nm MCU family.”
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