ARM devices target battery-backed applications
Energy Micro
ARM Cortex-M0-based product line
Energy Micro is to introduce an ARM Cortex-M0-based product line for battery-backed applications in sectors such as energy metering, building automation, security and portable medical equipment.
The company has also improved the low-power performance of its forthcoming Cortex-M3-based Tiny Gecko devices.
The new introductions will boost the company's Energy Friendly Microcontroller portfolio to more than 100 products.
To be named Zero Gecko, the M0-based microcontroller line of 20 new products will provide Energy Micro's lowest-cost energy-friendly microcontroller solution.
Pin and software compatible with the companion M3-based products, Zero will also achieve the same fourfold improvement in energy consumption when compared with alternative M0-based microcontrollers.
The bigger M3-based Tiny Gecko microcontroller product line now being sampled by customers is achieving a current-consumption performance of 160uA/MHz.
The complete Gecko range is characterised by very low active and standby power consumption, fast processing and wake-up time, and highly flexible low-energy modes.
It provides an array of low-power peripheral functions able to be operated autonomously and is the first to support energy debugging through its Advanced Energy Monitoring system and Simplicity Studio toolset.
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