MCUs for Safety-Critical Industrial Systems and Home Appliances

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. announced the availability of three new series of devices in its high-performance FM4 portfolio of Flexible MCUs based on the ARM® Cortex®-M4 core. FM4 MCUs operate at frequencies up to 200MHz and support a diverse set of on-chip peripherals for motor control, factory automation and home appliance applications. The portfolio delivers low-latency, reliable, machine-to-machine (M2M) communication required for Industry 4.0 — the fourth industrial revolution, using network-computing technologies to advance design and manufacturing.

The S6E2C-Series of FM4 devices offers up to a 200MHz CPU, 2MB flash, 256KB SRAM, 190 GPIOs, 27 communication peripherals, 36 digital peripherals and 4 analog peripherals. The series is designed for high-end motor control and industrial applications. Designed for industrial automation and metering applications, the S6E2G-Series of FM4 devices offers up to a 180-MHz CPU, 1MB flash, 192KB SRAM, 153 GPIOs, 20 communication peripherals, 33 digital peripherals and 3 analog peripherals. The S6E2H-Series of FM4 devices provides up to 160-MHz CPU, 512KB flash, 64KB SRAM, 100 GPIOs, 12 communication peripherals, 27 digital peripherals and 4 analog peripherals. The S6E2H-Series is designed for motor control and home appliance applications.

The superior performance of the FM4 MCUs portfolio is demonstrated by their high CoreMark® scores. CoreMark, which was developed by the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC®), benchmarks the performance of a processor core and its memory subsystem and enables quick comparisons between processors. The S6E2C-Series, now in full production, delivers a best-in-class 675 CoreMark score at 200MHz, and the new S6E2G-Series and S6E2H-Series deliver leading CoreMark scores of 608 at 180MHz and 540 at 160MHz, respectively.

The portfolio delivers robust, reliable M2M communication with high-speed communication interfaces, including Controller Area Network with Flexible Data-Rates (CAN-FD) and IEEE 1588 Ethernet, and with hardware-based encryption accelerators. The FM4 MCUs include up to 2MB flash and 256KB SRAM memory, along with integrated hardware-based features and standards-compliant firmware libraries that simplify functional safety compliance.

"Designing systems for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet requires high-performance, ARM-based MCUs that enable support for international safety standards and deliver fast, secure and reliable communication interfaces," said Sudhir Gopalswamy, vice president of the MCU Business Unit at Cypress. "Our FM4 MCU portfolio provides the performance needed for Industry 4.0 applications and the scalability to minimize development costs and accelerate time-to-market."

The Cypress S6E2G-Series and S6E2H-Series FM4 MCUs are now sampling, with production expected in the fourth quarter of 2015. The S6E2C-Series is now in full production.