February 14, 2012 -- NXP Semiconductors today announced its LPC1100LV series, the first ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller with dual supply voltage of 1.65V to 1.95V VDD and 1.65V to 3.6V VIO. The LPC1100LV series offers 50-MIPS performance in a tiny 2x2-mm footprint with over three times power reduction compared to similar 3.3-V VDD devices. The LPC1100LV platform is specifically designed for battery-powered applications ranging from mobile phones, tablets, Ultrabooks and mobile accessories to active cable, cameras, and portable medical electronics.

Using NXP's latest proprietary embedded Flash with 256-Byte erase sector and low leakage current, the LPC1100LV can handle linear current consumption at low clock frequency while reducing system power. For example, in a mobile system such as a smartphone, most system components are expected to remain mostly in sleep mode with very low current consumption. When a device is needed, fast wake-up and peak performance must be reached in a short amount of time. The LPC1100LV meets this demand with a 5-µs wake-up time.

NXP's LPC1100LV devices deliver 50MIPS of performance compared to the 1- to 5-MIPS performance typical of 8/16-bit MCUs. This high performance allows LPC1100LV to complete demanding tasks faster and to remain in active mode for a shorter period of time, further reducing the average current consumed by the device. Given the same task, LPC1100LV's unique 1.65-V to 1.95-V VDD low-voltage input offers more than three times power reduction compared to competitive Cortex-M0 devices using 3.3-V VDD input, and more than ten times compared to typical 8/16-bit MCUs.

Subsystems that can take special advantage of the LPC1100LV's MIPS performance include system security and authentication (including handling AES-256 encryption), system interface and controls (such as keypads and touchscreens), system peripheral controls (for audio and lighting), and for running software stacks (such as Bluetooth Low Energy radio).

Other key specifications for the LPC1100LV devices include:

Cortex-M0 CPU up to 50MHz. 1.6-µA deep sleep current and 5-µs wake-up time. Up to 8 kBytes SRAM and 32 kBytes Flash. SPI, UART and I2C. Up to 10-bit, 8-channel ADC with 400ksps. Two 32-bit timers and two 16-bit timers. 12-MHz oscillator at 1% accuracy. WL-CSP25, HVQFN24 and HVQFN33 package options (BGA available).

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