28 March 2008

NXP Debuts Family Of ARM9 Based Microcontrollers

NXP Semiconductors, a member of the ARM Connected Community, has debuted a family of ARM9 based microcontrollers.

Designed in 90nm process, the NXP LPC3200 family combines the performance of an ARM926EJ core, a Vector Floating Point (VFP), an LCD Controller, an Ethernet MAC, On-The-Go USB, an efficient bus matrix and a large set of standard peripherals. These features offer embedded designers the ability to reduce on-chip components and maximize power savings without sacrificing performance, the company said.

The NXP LPC3200 family is based on the popular ARM926EJ processor and targets consumer, industrial, medical and automotive applications providing designers with a high-performance power efficient microcontroller.

“It is clear that the 32-bit market continues to outpace the growth of the 16-bit and 8-bit markets. We developed the LPC3200 family building on the strong success of our LPC2000 and LPC3000 to meet demand for higher performance MCUs,” said Geoff Lees, vice president and general manager, microcontroller product line, NXP Semiconductors. “NXP’s goal is to continue to provide our customers with the broadest ARM MCU offering in the industry.”

The NXP LPC3200 microcontroller family which consists of the LPC3220, LPC3230, LPC3240 and LPC3250 will be displayed at the Embedded Systems Conference taking place next month from April 14-18 in San Jose, California, US.