In the field of microcontrollers, there has never been a shortage of hot topics and products. At the beginning of the 2012 New Year, many manufacturers have put a number of “heavy bombs†on the market, stirring the MCU market. Let's take a look at which housekeeping skills are used by each family. Wolverine returns, MCU enters the "battery-free era" Remember "Wolverine"? This undead hero with super-self-healing ability in the movie "Wolverine" is now back! Recently, Texas Instruments (TI) launched the "world's lowest power" microcontroller platform - "Wolverine", directly targeting applications in portable medical , intelligent sensing and metrology, energy harvesting, consumer electronics and other fields. The first devices based on the platform are the MSP430FR58xx series, which is expected to be available in June 2012. Scott Roller, TI's global vice president and general manager of the microcontroller business unit, said the platform has the codename "Wolverine" because of its aggressive energy-saving technology. This symbolizes that the electronic products using the new MSP430 platform have super vitality, and the smarter and more environmentally friendly “Batteryless World†will soon become a reality. According to the company, the power consumption of the Wolverine platform is at least 50% lower than any other microcontroller in the industry (360nA real-time clock mode power consumption and operating mode power consumption below 100μA/MHz). The lowest power consumption is available in the world—lowest operating power, standby power, memory power, and peripheral power. For example, a typical battery-powered application is in standby mode for 99.9% of the time, while a "Wolverine-based" microcontroller consumes only 360nA in standby mode, which can more than double the battery life. Roller uses the word "no one can, really" to describe this product, and will "unique ultra-low leakage (ULL) process technology", unified FRAM and MSP430 ultra-low power system traditional advantages, outside Set the software as "Wolverine" to achieve ultra-low power three unique secrets. "Our ULL technology provides more than 10 times the improvement in leakage performance and optimized mixed-signal performance. Improved 130nm process technology, ultra-low-power MSP430 architecture and more than 30 power-optimized analog and digital components. It’s just a few of the many integrated elements that have led to a significant drop in power consumption.†Another noteworthy point is that the "Wolverine" microcontroller makes use of the memory FRAM to make the operating current in the operating mode less than 100μA/MHz, and claims to be compared to flash and EEPROM-based microcontrollers. Bit energy consumption can be reduced by about 250 times. In addition, FRAM has 100% non-volatile properties, which allows developers to get the low power, high speed and flexibility of SRAM, while enjoying the important unpowered storage capacity of Flash. For more than 10 years, the MSP430 ultra-low-power platform has been a weapon for TI to attack the city in the MCU field, with a fast wake-up time of 6.5μs and high-precision peripherals (such as internal power management and a 12-bit battery with a current consumption of 75μA) ADC), and all MSP430 MCUs can be expanded with MSP430Ware software and resource libraries, as well as low-power code optimization software tools. According to Roller, MCU software includes IDE compilers and heights, modular code, software stacks and libraries, GUI-based code generation tools, development networks, etc. The ratio of hardware and software development engineers rose from 4:9 in 2009 to 2010. At 5:14 of the year, software has become an important consideration for customer purchases. Machine Tool Calibration,Machine Tool Swivel Check,Angle Pendulum Tester,Machine Tool Calibrator Automated Precision Inc. , https://www.apiasean.com