Dual core MCUs handle demanding control loops

The TMS320F28376D and F28377D Delfino 32-bit microcontrollers have dual 200 MHz C28x cores and 512 or 1024 Kbytes of flash with 166 or 204 Kbytes of RAM. Intended for high performance control systems, each core has a floating-point unit, a Viterbi-complex math unit, a trigonometric math unit, and a control loop floating point accelerator (CLA) unit.

The processor operates from 3.3 V and has four independent 16-bit A/D converters, 40 PWM channels, six capture modules, three encoder inputs, a 2 Kbyte OTP memory, two CAN-bus ports, three high-speed SPI ports, and dual windowed comparators. The IC can perform vibrational analysis and execute trigonometric controls loop algorithms. From $15.93 ea/1,000.