Toshiba expands line-up of ARM Cortex -M-based MCUs

Toshiba Electronics Europe will enhance its portfolio of ARM Cortex-based microcontrollers with the development of the new TXZ family of microcontrollers that support low-power consumption and high-speed operation for IoT and M2M ecosystems.

The new TXZ family has been designed to meet market needs for low power consumption systems by integrating the ultra-low power design technologies adopted in Toshiba’s TZ series of ApP Lite application processor family for IoT solutions into current TX family of microcontrollers. Fabricated using a newly developed embedded flash memory process based on a 65nm logic process, the TXZ series will reduce power consumption by 60% compared to Toshiba’s current microcontroller products.

The first product group will be the TMPM3H, part of the TXZ3 series that will be based on ARM Cortex-M3 core. The TMPM3H group will feature products characterized by small packages with pin counts of 32-100 pins, flash memory capacities of 32KB-128KB and standard peripheral functions. Toshiba expects the devices to reduce entire system power consumption, targeting less than 100uA/MHz for the microcontrollers. Sample shipments will start in the second quarter of 2016.

Toshiba will continue to broaden the group line-up. It will launch a second product group of high-speed products based on the ARM Cortex-M4F core and a third product group featuring ultra-low power consumption products based on the same core. Toshiba has also started to develop microcontrollers with embedded non-volatile memory that adopts single-poly multi-time programmable cells on its 130nm logic process technology. These devices will help to reduce cost in applications including power management and motor control.