Toshiba, a world leader in microcontrollers (MCUs), provides a seamless product line of 8- to 32-bit embedded microcontrollers with a large variety of on-board peripherals. The Flash MCUs are widely used in industrial applications and reduce product development turnaround time. The wide selection of peripheral functions is supported with enhanced, high-quality security mechanisms. Toshiba has one of the largest product portfolios with a large number of general-purpose microcontrollers available in mass production.

Starting with 8-bit microcontrollers, the latest generation of devices offers the performance levels and peripheral selection previously only associated with 16-bit solutions. The 32-bit CISC MCUs implement a powerful architecture, capable of executing instructions in a 50 ns cycle time (typical). Designed to cover a wide voltage range, the Toshiba MCUs operate at 5V for industrial systems, down to 1.8V for applications where low-power consumption is essential. Specific microcontroller products include:

TMP86FS49: The TMP86FS49 is an 8-bit microcontroller incorporating 60 Kbytes of Flash memory and a large number of on-chip peripheral functions such as UART (two channels), synchronous serial interface (two channels) and I2C bus interface (one channel) as communication functions. This product includes a 10-bit A/D converter, various timers and is available in three types of packages, making it ideal for consumer and industrial applications, and for networked home appliances. The microcontroller supports on-board programming and offers enhanced security functionality to protect the user program against unauthorized external read-out, and the high-speed microcontroller CPU has low power consumption.