American Semiconductor has announced the FleX-MCU product family. The FleX-MCU is the world’s first physically flexible microcontroller fabricated using the FleX Silicon-on-Polymer process.
The FleX-MCU is an 8-bit RISC microcontroller with 8KB embedded RAM operating at up to 20MHz with a 1.2V core and 2.5V I/O. It includes multiple serial interface peripherals, including UART, I2C, and SPI.
The FleX-MCU is the initial product for a full portfolio of physically flexible ICs. The FleX IC roadmap includes microcontrollers, analog-to-digital converters (ADC), radio frequency (RF) wireless communications, and non-volatile memory (NVM).
Features
| Operating Voltages | 1.2V core, 2.5V I/O |
| Input/Output Pins | 24 |
| Operating Frequency | 20 MHz |
| 1MHz Internal Oscillator | Yes |
| Program Memory ROM | 1 KB |
| Program/Data Memory RAM with EDAC | 8 KB |
| Data Memory with EDAC | 512 B |
| Instructions | 37; 14-bit |
| Single-cycle instructions | Yes, except 2-cycle program branching |
| Interrupts | 16 priority interrupts from 39 sources |
| Hardware Stack | 8-level |
| 16-bit Timer/Counter with 8-bit prescalar | 2 |
| Pulse-Width Modulation Channels | 3 |
| Real-Time Clock | Yes |
| Asynchronous Serial Interface Peripheral | ASIP is user configurable for UART, I2C, or SPI |
| UART | 1 |
| SPI (with auto-load to internal RAM) | 1 |
| I2C | 1 |
| Watchdog Timer | Yes |
| Power-on Reset (POR) | Yes |
| JTAG | Yes |
| On-Chip Serial Debugger | Yes; 6 debug instructions plus break on address |
Availability
FleX-MCU samples will be available in October 2013.
