Texas instruments say it has reduced the size of the smallest microcontroller unit in its industry with a new MCU the size of a black pepper snowflake.
The MCU packaging is only 1.38 millimeters in size and is part of the company's cortex line for built -in designs. You tell you that the product is directed to small products, including medical wear, ears, needle pens and electric toothbrushes. The product includes a 12-bit analogue con-converter And it has 16KB flash memory and 1KB SRAM and runs on 24MHz.
The diminitive device is known as the MSPM0C1104. Unfortunately, it is as attractive as it gets (without pepper power for this piece of technology).
You say the microcontroller costs 20 cents per unit in quantities of 1,000, which means the company could get an army of robotic spiders, started for just under $ 200. You shows this and other MCU (not related to a miracle) of Built -in world 2025 in Nuremberg, Germany.
Opens opportunities
William LukeConsultant and technology expert at Si -Pick Research Technology said the decline in MCU opens up opportunities in areas where miniature devices were not possible.
“One of the important verticals for micro-devices is in health and surgery: smart pills, built-in sensors or even surgical devices that can reach places like never before,” Luke said.
Luke also said that innovation could be enough to move denim instruments to the MCU developer chain currently dominated by stomethroelectronic, Infineon, NXP, Microchip and Renesas Electronics.
“With the new Ti MCU, we could see a new class of super micro-devices, not only targeting consumers, but commercial uses (such as health care). But there are also challenges such as government approval (for medical devices). The production of these new micro devices can be a challenge, “Luke said.
Correction: The former version of this story mistakenly stated that the microcontroller costs 16 cents per unit.