8-bit MCU features 10-bit A/D and USB 2.0

The C8051F38x 8-bit microcontrollers feature enhanced analog/mixed-signal capabilities and a full-speed USB 2.0 port with transceiver. The family of seven devices has a 500-ksample/s 10-bit A/D converter with an internal or external reference, two comparators, and a 16-bit programmable counter array.

The MCUs core uses a pipelined instruction architecture and executes 70% of instructions in one or two clocks with up to 48-MIPS operation. The ICs have 32 or 64 Kbytes of flash, up to 4,352 bytes of RAM, a temperature sensor, and an external memory interface. The devices come in 5 x 5-mm QFN packages and uses 2.7 to 5.25-V power via an on-chip regulator. (From $2.12 ea/10,000 — available now.)

By Jim Harrison

Silicon Laboratories , Austin , TX
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