Low-cost floating-point Piccolo MCUs drive low-energy, real-time control applications

TI, once known for its general-purpose DSP, has 25 years of experience in DSP development. Among them, the C2000 series of DSP products, which are talked about a lot, were originally developed for industrial applications. Currently, the C2000 product line exists as an MCU product, tailored for real-time control, and is divided into two series: Delfino and Piccolo. Recently, Texas Instruments (TI) launched 15 of the latest Piccolo floating-point MCUs, bringing good news to low-energy motor control and renewable energy applications.

The 15 TMS320F2806x Piccolo floating-point MCUs provide a balance between the performance of low-cost Piccolo and high-performance Delfino™ floating-point microcontrollers (MCUs), with excellent math engines, including 80 MHz floating-point C28x™ cores, the latest Viterbi complex math unit (VCU) and control law accelerator (CLA) options. The floating-point core greatly simplifies programming, improves compatibility with metalanguage tools, and improves performance by 40% compared to fixed-point solutions; the latest VCU complex math unit provides 75 custom math instructions to accelerate the processing of communication algorithms for applications such as PLCs, achieving a factor of 7 times improvement.

Peripherals include USB2.0 full speed (host and device), CAN, and direct memory access (DMA); 15 MCUs with memory capacities ranging from 52 to 100KB RAM and 128 to 256KB flash; control-oriented peripherals include 150ps resolution PWM, 3MSPS 12-bit ADC, and analog comparators with three 10-bit references.


TMS320F2806x Piccolo floating-point MCU functional block diagram

The new Piccolo F2806x floating-point MCUs and samples are available immediately. In particular, the first 1,000 customers who order F2806x controlSTICKs through the TI eStore before February 14, 2011 will receive promotional pricing. The F2806x controlSTICKs are available immediately at www.ti.com/f2806x-cs-pr-es, and the F2806x Experimenter Kits are available immediately at www.ti.com/f2806x-ek-pr-es. Both the F2806x Experimenter Kits and the controlSTICKs include the Code Composer Studio™ integrated development environment, with no compiler or memory limitations. The F2806x controlCARDs are available at www.ti.com/f2806x-cc-pr-es.

TI, once known for its general-purpose DSP, has 25 years of experience in DSP development. Among them, the C2000 series of DSP products, which are talked about a lot, were originally developed for industrial applications. Currently, the C2000 product line exists as an MCU product, tailored for real-time control, and is divided into two series: Delfino and Piccolo. Recently, Texas Instruments (TI) launched 15 of the latest Piccolo floating-point MCUs, bringing good news to low-energy motor control and renewable energy applications.

The 15 TMS320F2806x Piccolo floating-point MCUs provide a balance between the performance of low-cost Piccolo and high-performance Delfino™ floating-point microcontrollers (MCUs), with excellent math engines, including 80 MHz floating-point C28x™ cores, the latest Viterbi complex math unit (VCU) and control law accelerator (CLA) options. The floating-point core greatly simplifies programming, improves compatibility with metalanguage tools, and improves performance by 40% compared to fixed-point solutions; the latest VCU complex math unit provides 75 custom math instructions to accelerate the processing of communication algorithms for applications such as PLCs, achieving a factor of 7 times improvement.

Peripherals include USB2.0 full speed (host and device), CAN, and direct memory access (DMA); 15 MCUs with memory capacities ranging from 52 to 100KB RAM and 128 to 256KB flash; control-oriented peripherals include 150ps resolution PWM, 3MSPS 12-bit ADC, and analog comparators with three 10-bit references.


TMS320F2806x Piccolo floating-point MCU functional block diagram

The new Piccolo F2806x floating-point MCUs and samples are available immediately. In particular, the first 1,000 customers who order F2806x controlSTICKs through the TI eStore before February 14, 2011 will receive promotional pricing. The F2806x controlSTICKs are available immediately at www.ti.com/f2806x-cs-pr-es, and the F2806x Experimenter Kits are available immediately at www.ti.com/f2806x-ek-pr-es. Both the F2806x Experimenter Kits and the controlSTICKs include the Code Composer Studio™ integrated development environment, with no compiler or memory limitations. The F2806x controlCARDs are available at www.ti.com/f2806x-cc-pr-es.