TI adds USB interface to its C2000 Piccolo FP MCUs

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has announced its newest 32-bit, real-time C2000 Piccolo F2806xU microcontrollers (MCU) with integrated USB connectivity.

In many applications, such as consumer and industrial motor control systems, industrial power systems, telecom and data systems, wind and solar energy generation and general power electronic applications, being able to access diagnostics and make on-the-go changes in the field is critical. With the Piccolo F2806xU MCU, TI customers can easily incorporate USB connectivity into their applications.

Piccolo F2806xU MCUs features CAN peripherals, 12-bit, 3 MSPS ADC, 3 high-speed analog comparators, C-programmable, 32-bit floating-point CLA co-processor included with F2806x Piccolo MCUs, and the Viterbi Complex Math Unit (VCU) to provide 75 tailored math instructions to accelerate processing of communications algorithms.

Pricing and availability: The F2806xU Piccolo microcontrollers start at $4.95 in 1k volumes and offer various configurations to meet a variety of performance, memory, peripheral and package size requirements.