DSPs pack peripherals, flash memory on one chipDSPs pack peripherals, flash memory on one chip

DN Staff

February 16, 1998

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DSPs pack peripherals, flash memory on one chip

Texas Instruments' TMS320F241 and TMS320F243 DSPs offer 8K of reprogrammable flash memory and control area networking(CAN). The TMS320C241 offers 8K of read only memory (ROM) and CAN. Machines such as industrial book binders that use multiple electric motors of myriad sizes can be interconnected using the CAN bus to link the DSP controllers within each motor.

Applications include motion control systems, robotics, transmission/hydraulic systems, power supply inverters, uninterruptible power supplies, computer numerically controlled (CNC) machines and automotive systems.

The TMS320C242 offers 4K of ROM, a serial communication interface, dual 10-bit analog to digital converters, and the needed pulse width modulations for controlling a power inverter. Typical applications for this device would be heating ventilation and air conditioners and home appliances.

The four DSP controllers also feature a fixed-point, 20 million instructions per second (MIPS) DSP core with a 50-ns single-cycle instruction execution time, enabling 1-cycle multiplication and addition operations. Additional on-chip peripherals include general-purpose timers, serial communication interfaces, serial peripheral interfaces and analog to digital converters.

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