Accelerators: Enhancing the capabilities of the C2000 MCU family

Real-time control systems require fast and efficient processing, with latency kept to minimum in order to maintain stability and boost overall performance. In addition, the increasing sophistication of modern motor systems, power electronics, smart grid technology, robotics and similar applications require the central processor to keep
up with numerous tasks simultaneously.

The C2000™ family of microcontrollers (MCUs) from Texas Instruments addresses these challenges with
an array of integrated on-chip hardware accelerators that dramatically increase the performance of the
MCU in many real-time applications. The four key accelerators are:

• Floating-Point Unit (FPU)
• Real-Time Control Co-Processor (CLA)
• Trigonometric Math Unit (TMU)
• Viterbi, Complex Math, and CRC Unit (VCU)