This New TI Microcontroller Is the Size of a Black Pepper Flake
Texas Instruments says it has reduced the size of its smallest microcontroller unit in its industry MCU large pepper flakes size.
The MCU packaging measures only 1.38 square millimeters and is part of the company’s embedded design ARM Cortex series. TI said the product is targeted at small products, including medical wearables, earplugs, stylus and electric toothbrushes. This product includes 12-bit analog to digital converter And has 16KB of flash memory and 1KB of SRAM and run at 24MHz.
Small devices are called MSPM0C1104. Alas, that’s fascinating (the technique doesn’t have pepper).
TI said the price of microcontrollers is 1,000 shares per unit, meaning the company can start opening the robot spider project’s troop, priced as low as $200. Ti is in Embed into the world in 2025 in Nuremberg, Germany.
Open up opportunities
William LukConsultants and technologists at Quanandary Peak Research said the MCU contracted and opened up the field of micro-device that was previously impossible.
“One of the important verticals of micro-device is in healthcare and surgery: smart pills, embedded sensors, and even surgical devices that can reach places like never before,” Luke said.
Luke also said the innovation could be enough to move Texas Instruments into the MCU developer chain, currently dominated by Stmicroelectronics, Infineon, NXP, Microchip and Renesas Electronics.
“With the new Ti MCU, we can see that new super micro devices are targeted not only for consumers, but also for commercial purposes (such as healthcare). However, there are challenges in government approval (for medical devices). The manufacturing of these new micro devices can also be challenging,” Luke said.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the price of a microcontroller is 16 cents per unit.
