Embedded electronics specialist Nuvoton Know-how has introduced the NuMicro MG51 Collection of eight-bit microcontrollers — primarily based on Intel’s venerable 8051 structure.
“Nuvoton Know-how releases the improved 1T-8051 microcontroller collection NuMicro MG51,” the corporate introduced of its newest microcontroller household, “tailor-made for purposes equivalent to house home equipment, LED dimming, motor management, and industrial automation. MG51 is suitable with Keil C51, IAR EW8051, and NuEclipse SDCC improvement toolchains.”
Nuvoton has introduced a brand new household of eight-bit microcontrollers, primarily based on the 8051 structure: NuMicro MG51. (📷: Nuvoton)
The NuMicro MG51 household, dropped at our consideration by CNX Software program, presents a single microcontroller core working at as much as 24MHz, as much as 4kB of static RAM (SRAM) linked alongside 256 bytes of on-chip RAM, as much as 64kB of flash storage, and 4kB of LDROM. Its structure, in the meantime, has a prolonged historical past: it is a 1T-8051, an enhanced implementation of Intel’s 8051 structure, launched in 1980 with the Intel MCS-51 and designed to supply a number of instances the efficiency of Intel’s unique and thus be capable of run at slower speeds drawing much less energy — but is claimed to be totally suitable with its predecessor.
Different options of the brand new components embrace as much as 12-channel pulse-width modulation (PWM), as much as 5 UART, SPI, and I2C interfaces, a 15-channel 12-bit analog to digital converter with a 500 kilo-samples per second sampling fee, and as much as 46 general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) pins, model-dependent.
Regardless of the age of its microcontroller core structure, the MG51 Collection packs a heap of peripherals. (📷: Nuvoton)
For safety, Nuvoton guarantees three predominant mechanisms: flash lock bits to forestall firmware readout via ICP pins; a 128-byte safety safety ROM (SPROM) which could be set as execute-only in “safety mode” or used as information storage in “non-security mode”; and a 96-bit distinctive identifier (UID) plus a customizable 128-bit distinctive buyer identifier (UCID).
The brand new components at the moment are out there to order direct from Nuvoton , beginning at $0.38 every in 2,000-chip tray portions; the NuMaker-MG51FC and NuMaker-MG51LD improvement boards can be found at $25 every, as a fast begin to improvement with the chips.
