Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Cyan Technology | Subject: ECOG1X
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 12 February 2007
Low-power MCU boasts triple the
performance
Microcontrollers address an array of demanding applications including ePOS, telematics, security, access control, pay phones, consumer, motor control and networking.
Cambridge-based microcontroller vendor, Cyan Technology is now shipping its latest family of low-power, feature rich microcontrollers, the eCOG1X range The eCOG1X transforms Cyan into a multiproduct company and helps it to address an array of new and more demanding applications including ePOS, telematics, security, access control, pay phones, consumer, motor control and networking
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 Feb 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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A new more powerful addition to the eCOG range of microcontrollers features more on-chip Flash and important new peripherals including USB2.0 OTG and 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet MAC.
Microcontrollers add USB option
With minimal external components the eCOG1X USB device can act as a USB2.0 full-speed (12Mbit/s) device in host, peripheral or On The Go (OTG) modes.
Cyan will be demonstrating production silicon on its stand at Embedded World.
The eCOG1X devices are highly configurable, with options including combinations of USB 2.0 OTG, 10/100 Ethernet MAC and analogue I/O.
Each combination is available with different onboard memory options, with up to 512Kbyte of on-chip Flash and 24Kbyte of SRAM.
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MCUs have Ethernet MACs and open source stacks
Free Ethernet stacks allow eCOG microcontrollers to address specific size and performance points.
MCU is cut down for cost-sensitive applications
The eCOG1XE01A6 offers a 64Kbyte Flash memory and retains the most commonly used peripheral blocks of the eCOG1X family.
16bit MCU is low-power communications engine
New from Cyan Technology, the eCOG1 is a 16bit Flash microcontroller specifically designed as a low-power communications engine.
The 16bit, 70MHz device also offers 42MIPS processing performance - tripling that of current eCOG1k devices.
All Cyan's microcontrollers offer reconfigurable and flexible peripherals.
Using Cyan's free development tool CyanIDE, the designer can set up peripherals with little or no programming effort and link them to device pins that best suit the application.
The latest release of CyanIDE, version 1.4, includes full support for the eCOG1X family whose new combinations of peripherals and higher core performance fulfill the requirements of more challenging applications.
Paul Barwick Cyan's sales director said: "The eCOG1X product family and CyanIDE development toolset deliver innovative, peripheral-rich, embedded control solutions, and offer OEMs significant price and performance advantages".
"The 16bit eCOG1X has capabilities comparable to many 32bit microcontrollers for embedded communications, but is easier to use, features lower power consumption and requires considerably less development time".
He continued: "The eCOG1X also has a significant USB capability".
"With minimal external components the device is able to act as a USB2.0 full-speed (12Mbs) device in host, peripheral or OTG modes".
"High-speed (480Mbit/s) datarates can also be achieved by adding a low-cost external ULPI PHY".
"The eCOG1X is the only 16bit microcontroller on the market today that can achieve this combination of USB modes and datarates".
The eCOG1X also has: a new analogue section including two flexible 12bit DACs with a 4us settling time, an LCD controller with support for direct and multiplexed drive of up to four backplane lines and the eICE built in emulator that can program the internal Flash.
For motor control applications there are dual ADCs which can simultaneously sample voltage and current analogue inputs with between 6 and 12bit resolution, and for three-phase motors there is a dedicated six-channel PWM timer function.
With a fully configurable MMU and vectored interrupt modes, developers can have the real-time responsiveness needed for today's more demanding embedded applications.
The packages available include 68 and 100-pin QFN and 208-pin BGA, with further packages and options to be introduced throughout 2007.
A comprehensive development environment is available along with a new release of CyanIDE.
The unit selling price for eCOG1X products ranges from US $4 to $10 in quantities of 10,000.
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