Toshiba releases new M4G group of Arm® Cortex®-M4 microcontrollers for high-speed data processing in the TXZ+TM family advanced class

Tokyo--(Antara/Business Wire)- Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has started the mass production of 20 new devices in the M4G group for high-speed data processing as new products of the TXZ+TM family advanced class manufactured in a 40nm process. These products use Arm Cortex-M4 core with FPU, running up to 200MHz, integrating a maximum of 2MB code flash and 32KB data flash memory with 100K write cycle endurance, and features various interfacing and communication options. As a result, M4G group devices are ideally suited for office equipment, building and factory automation applications.

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Microcontrollers in the M4G group have enhanced communication functions integrated as a serial memory interface that also supports Quad/Octal SPI, audio interface (I2S), external bus interface in addition to UART, FUART, TSPI and I2C. In addition, the devices have an in-built 3-unit DMAC and a bus matrix structure, which greatly improves communication throughput compared to Toshiba’s conventional product.

These devices support a variety of sensing use cases with a high-speed, high-precision 12-bit analog/digital converter that allows individual sample hold times to be set for each AD input channel with up to 24 channels.

The self-diagnosis functions incorporated in the devices for ROM, RAM, ADC and Clock help customers to achieve IEC60730 Class B functional safety certification. These new devices offer low current consumption and high functionality while maintaining good compatibility with devices from the existing TXZTM family M4G(1) group.

Documentations, sample software with an example of actual usage, and driver software which control interfaces for each peripheral are available for download on the Toshiba website. Evaluations boards and development environments are provided in cooperation with Arm global ecosystem partners.

• High performance Arm Cortex-M4 core with FPU, max 200MHz

• Motor control functions and communication interfaces

• Self-diagnosis functions for IEC60730 class B functional safety

High-speed data processing for consumer appliances and industrial equipment.

MFP (Multi-function printer), audio-video equipment, communication equipment for building & factory automation, IoT home appliances etc.,

Product group M4G group

CPU core Arm Cortex-M4

‒ memory protection unit (MPU)

‒ floating-point unit (FPU)

Max operation frequency 200MHz

Internal oscillator 10MHz (+/-1%)

Internal

memory Flash (code) 512KB/1024KB/1536KB/2048KB

(rewritable up to 100,000 times)

 Flash (data) 32KB (rewritable up to 100,000 times)

 RAM 192KB/256KB and Backup RAM 2KB

I/O port 91 to 155

External interrupt 12 to 16

External bus interface 8/16bit width (separate/multiplexed bus)

DMA controller (DMAC) Multi-function DMAC 1 unit

High-speed DMAC 2 units

Timer function T32A 32-bit timer: 16

(can be used as 16-bit timer: 32)

 LTTMR Long Term Timer: 1 channel

 RTC Real Time Clock: 1 channel

Communication

function UART Asynchronous Serial Communication: 3 to 6 channels

 FUART Full Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter: 1 to 2 channels

 I2C 3 to 5 channels

 TSPI Serial Peripheral Interface: 5 to 9 channels

 TSSI Synchronous serial Interface: 1 to 2 channels

 SMIF Serial Memory Interface: 1 channel

 CEC 1 channel

Analog

function 12-bit AD converter 16 to 24 channel input

 8-bit Digital to Analog converter 2 channels

Other

peripherals Motor control (A-PMD) 1 channel

 RMC Remote Control Signal Preprocessor: 1 to 2 channels

 ISD Interval Sensor detection Circuit: 1 to 3 units

 I2S 2 channels

 FIR FIR Calculation circuit: 1 channel

System

function WDT 1 channel

 LVD Voltage Detection Circuit: 1 channel

 OFD Oscillation Frequency Detector: 1 channel

On-chip debug function Serial Wire /JTAG

Operation voltage 2.7 to 3.6V, single voltage supply

Package / Pin LQFP176 (20mm x 20mm, 0.4mm pitch)

VFBGA177 (13mm x 13mm, 0.8mm pitch)

LQFP144 (20mm x 20mm, 0.5mm pitch)

VFBGA145 (12mm x 12mm, 0.8mm pitch)

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M4G Group

See the URL below for further details on Toshiba Microcontrollers.

Microcontrollers

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