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ARM. Sitara ARM Processor, Beagle. ARM express family from Coridium. | |||
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Arduino | |||
PIC | |||
AVR (AT series). Arduino. | |||
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LatticeMico8 (soft embedded) | |||
stay away from Make Controller Kit (nothing about it is standard) | |||
PICAXE | |||
OTHERS FROM MY MAGAZINES | |||
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Microchip PIC | |||
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Revision as of 14:38, 29 July 2012
What is the best microcontroller and programming language?
FAMILIES to learn:
for my digital portal, list all digital chip families and types (BS2, arduino, etc)
ARM. Sitara ARM Processor, Beagle. ARM express family from Coridium.
Basic Stamp
Arduino
PIC
AVR (AT series). Arduino.
Propeller
LatticeMico8 (soft embedded)
stay away from Make Controller Kit (nothing about it is standard)
PICAXE
OTHERS FROM MY MAGAZINES
uP families:
Microchip PIC
Basic Stamp 2
Spin
Arduino
Make controller
- [1]
- [2]
- [3]
- Make Controller
- [4]
- [5]
- Arduino
- Basic ATOM
- BASIC Stamp
- Arduinome
- ARM express
- BASIC Stamp
- Fritzing
- Make Controller Kit
- PICAXE
- [PIC]
- Gumstix
- [s]ioBridge[/s]
- Humane Informatics
- C Stamp
- [Dwengo]
- [Atmel AVR]
Compare: Target audience, languages available, free compiler?, development board, cost of module.
Types of microcontrollers
- Freescale 68HC11 (8-bit)
- Silicon Laboratories Pipelined 8051 Microcontrollers
- ARM processors (from many vendors) using ARM7 or Cortex-M3 cores are generally microcontrollers
- STMicroelectronics(8-bit), ST10 (16-bit) and STM32 (32-bit)
- Atmel AVR (8-bit), AVR32 (32-bit), and AT91SAM (32-bit)
- NXP Semiconductors LPC1000, LPC2000, LPC3000, LPC4000 (32-bit), LPC900, LPC700 (8-bit)
- Microchip PIC (8-bit PIC16, PIC18, 16-bit dsPIC33 / PIC24)
- Texas Instruments Microcontrollers : TI MSP430 16-bit Microcontrollers
Altera
- Nios II 32-bit configurable soft microprocessor
- Nios 16-bit configurable soft processor
Analog Devices
- Blackfin
- Super Harvard Architecture Single-Chip Computer (SHARC)
- TigerSHARC
- ADSP-21xx digital signal processor
- MicroConverter Family - ARM7 and 8052 cores
Atmel
- AT89 series (Intel 8051 architecture)
- AT90, ATtiny, ATmega, ATxmega series (AVR architecture) (Atmel Norway design)
- AT91SAM (ARM architecture)
- AVR32 (32-bit AVR architecture) (Atmel Norway design)
- MARC4
Charmed Labs
- Qwerk
- XPort
Dallas Semiconductor
ELAN Microelectronics Corp.
ELAN Microelectronics Corporation is an IC designer and provider of 8-bit microcontrollers and PC Peripheral ICs. Situated at the Hsinchu Science Park, the Silicon Valley of Taiwan, ELAN's microcontroller product range includes the following:
Energy Micro AS
Energy Micro AS provides low energy 32-bit microcontrollers using an ARM Cortex-M3 processor. The semiconductor company is situated in Oslo, Norway. The EFM32 products consists of:
- Standard microcontrollers
- Application specific microcontrollers
- Custom microcontrollers
EPSON Semiconductor
- 4-bit Microcomputers S1C60/62/63 family
- 8-bit Microcomputers S1C88 family
- 16-bit Microcomputers S1C17 family
- 32-bit Microcomputers S1C33 family
Freescale Semiconductor
Until 2004, these µCs were developed and marketed by Motorola, whose semiconductor division was spun off to establish Freescale.
- 8-bit
- 16-bit
- 68HC12 (CPU12)
- 68HC16 (CPU16)
- Freescale DSP56800 (DSPcontroller)
- 32-bit
- Freescale 683XX
- M·CORE
- MPC500
- MPC 860 (PowerQUICC)
- MPC 8240/8250 (PowerQUICC II)
- MPC 8540/8555/8560 (PowerQUICC III)
Fujitsu
- F²MC Family (8/16-bit)
- FR Family (32-bit)
- FR-V Family (32-bit RISC)
Holtek
Holtek Semiconductor is a Taiwan-based designer of 8-bit microcontrollers and peripheral products. Located in the Hsinchu Science Park ([6]), the company's product range includes the following microcontroller device series:
- HT48FXX Flash I/O type series
- HT48RXX I/O type series
- HT46RXX A/D type series
- HT49RXX LCD type series
- HT82XX Computer Peripheral series
- HT95XX Telecom Peripheral series
- HT86XX Voice series
Infineon
Infineon offers a wide range of microcontroller applications for the automotive, industrial and multimarket industry.
- 8-bit
- XC800 family Based on the 8051 architecture the XC800 is divided into the A-(Automotive) and I-(Industrial) Family, providing low cost mircos, for example applied in applications like body, safety, motor control, intelligent lighting and electro mobility
- 16-bit
- XE166 family, a Real Time Signal Controller applied in industrial applications
- XC 2000 family, designed for Automotive applications
- C166 family
- C167 family
- 32-bit
- TriCore™ family is based on a unified RISC/MCU/DSP processor core. Infineon launched the first generation of AUDO (Automotive unified processor) in 1999. The TC1782 is the first member of the AUDO MAX family designed for automotive applications
Intel
→ List of Intel microprocessors#Microcontrollers
- 8-bit
- 16-bit
- MCS-96 (8096 family – also incl. 8061)
- Intel MCS-296
Lattice Semiconductor
- Mico8 8-bit soft microprocessor
- Mico32 32-bit soft microprocessor
Microchip Technology
Microchip produces microcontrollers with 3 very different architectures:
8-bit (8-bit data bus) PICmicro, with a single accumulator (8 bits):
- PIC10 and PIC12: 12-bit instruction words
- PIC16 series: 14-bit instruction words, one address pointer ("indirect register pair")
- PIC18 series: 16-bit instruction words, three address pointers ("indirect register pairs")
16-bit (16-bit data bus) microcontrollers, with 16 general-purpose registers (each 16-bit)
- PIC24: 24-bit instruction words
- dsPIC: based on PIC24, plus DSP functions, such as a single-cycle MAC (multiply–accumulate) into two 40-bit accumulators.
32-bit (32-bit data bus) microcontrollers:
- PIC32MX series: 32-bit instructions, uses the MIPS architecture
National Semiconductor
NXP Semiconductors
- 8-bit
- 16-bit
- XA
- 32-bit
Renesas Electronics
Renesas is a joint venture of Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric. In April 2010 Renesas Technology and NEC Electronics merged to form Renesas Electronics.
Rockwell
Rockwell semiconductors (now called Conexant) created a line of 6502 based microcontrollers that were used with their telecom (modem) chips. Most of their microcontrollers were packaged in a QIP package.
SiLabs
Manufactures a line of 8051-compatible microcontrollers, notable for high speeds (50–100 MIPS) and large memories in relatively small package sizes. A free IDE is available that supports the USB-connected ToolStick line of modular prototyping boards. These microcontrollers were originally developed by Cygnal.
- C8051F300
- QFN11 package (3×3 mm), 25 MIPS, 8 kB flash memory, 256B RAM, 8 I/O, UART, SMBus, 3 timers, 8-bit 8 ch 500 kbs ADC, temperature sensor, Comparator.
- C8051F120
Silicon Motion
- SM2XX family - Flash memory card controllers
- SM321 - USB 2.0
- SM323 - USB 2.0
- SM323E - USB 2.0
- Silicon Motion's SM321E and SM324 controllers support SLC and MLC NAND flash from Samsung, Hynix, Toshiba and ST Micro as well as flash products from Renesas, Infineon and Micron. The SM321E is available in a 48-pin LQFP package and a 44-pin LGA package. The SM321E supports up to 4 SLC or MLC NAND flash chips with 4 bytes / 528 bytes ECC
- SM324 - USB 2.0
- Supports dual-channel data transfer at read speeds of 233× (35 MB/s) and write speeds of 160× (24 MB/s), making it the fastest USB 2.0 flash disk controller in the market. The SM324 also has serial peripheral interface (SPI) which allows for not only Master and Slave modes, but the flexibility to develop more functionality into USB flash disk (UFD) products such as GPS, fingerprint sensor, Bluetooth and memory-capacity display. The SM324 is available in a 64-pin LQFP package. The SM324 supports 8 SLC or MLC NAND flash chips with 4 bytes / 528 bytes ECC.
- SM330 - USB 2.0
- SM501, SM502 - Mobile Graphics
- SM712 - Mobile Graphics
- SM722 - Mobile Graphics
- SM340 - MP3/JPEG
- SM350 - MP3/JPEG
- SM370 - Image processing
Sony
STMicroelectronics
- ST6 (8-bit)
- ST7 (8-bit)
- STM8 (8-bit), STM MCU Pages, Extra info concerning STM8 family.
- μPSD (8032, 8-bit)
- ST10 (16-bit)
- STM32 (ARM Cortex M3, 32-bit), STM MCU Pages, Extra info concerning STM32 family.
- STR7 (ARM7TDMI, 32-bit)
- STR9 (ARM966E-S, 32-bit)
Texas Instruments
- TMS370 (8-bit)
- MSP430 Ultra-low-power 16-bit microcontroller
- TMS320F28xx (32-bit)
- C2000 32-bit microcontroller - For Real-Time applications
- Stellaris 32-bit ARM Cortex-M microcontroller
- TMS570 (32-bit RISC, ARM Cortex-R4)
Ubicom
- IP2022
- IP3022
- IP3022 is Ubicom's latest high performance 32bit processor running at 250 MHz featuring 8 hardware threads (barrel processor). It is specifically targeted at Wireless Routers.
Xemics
- XE8000 8-bit microcontroller family
Xilinx
- Microblaze 32-bit soft microprocessor
- Picoblaze 8-bit soft microprocessor
XMOS
- XCore XS1 32-bit, multithreaded, event-driven micro