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:

TMP92FD54: Based on the TLCS900/H1 processor core, the TMP92FD54 has been specifically designed to deliver performance and power consumption levels that are comparable to RISC devices, while offering all the software flexibility of CISC architecture. Target applications are CAN-based industrial and automotive applications requiring event control and interrupt handling. With 32 Kbytes of internal RAM and 512 Kbytes of Flash EEPROM, this microcontroller allows designers to eliminate external memory. The TLCS-900/H1 microcontroller core uses an internal 32-bit structure, operates at up to 20 MHz, and offers a maximum performance rating of 20 Mips. Key to the core’s high performance are four general-purpose register banks for fast context switching and improved real time control, and an eight channel DMA controller that can perform data transfers at speeds of up to 16 MBps.