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New microcontrollers for the next era of advanced industrial and IoT edge computing
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XP Semiconductors’ new MCX portfolio of microcontrollers are designed to advance innovation in smart homes, smart factories, smart cities and across many emerging industrial and IoT edge applications. The portfolio includes four series of devices built on a common platform and is supported by the widely adopted MCUXpresso suite of development tools and software. This combined offering allows developers to maximize software reuse across the portfolio to speed development. The portfolio also features the fi rst instantiation of NXP’s new, specialized neural processing unit (NPU) for accelerating inference at the edge, delivering up to 30x faster machine learning throughput
compared to a CPU core alone. The next generation of intelligent applications will require a new class of MCUs that allow developers to navigate power, performance and security requirements, as well as connectivity options, while balancing total system cost and energy effi ciency. Built on a common foundation of core technologies and supported by a unifi ed software suite for maximal software reuse, the MCX portfolio will enable the fl exibility needed to address this challenge. The breadth of the MCX portfolio allows developers to select devices that best fi t their application needs, freeing them to invest in differentiating aspects of their design. The four series in the MCX portfolio are designed for ease of use, to simplify
migration and to scale up or down as needed with maximal software reuse to minimize development cost. The portfolio is based on high-performance Arm Cortex-M cores and integrates
a comprehensive set of peripherals for design fl exibility. MCX devices feature up to 4 MB of on-chip fl ash memory, low power cache and advanced memory management controllers, plus up to 1MB of on-chip SRAM to further enhance real-time performance of edge applications.
Machine learning and run-time inference will be supported by NXP’s eIQ ML software development environment. Developers can
Distrelec’s latest e-book focuses on industrial manufacturing
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utilize the easy-to-use tools offered by eIQ to train ML models targeting either the NPU or the CPU core and deploy them on the MCU. MCX families that are built following NXP’s security-by-design approach will offer secure boot with an immutable root-of-trust, hardware accelerated cryptography and, on select families, a built-in EdgeLock secure subsystem.
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