Philips Debuts LPC90x/LPC91x MCU Families

Royal Philips Electronics (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) announced two new families of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) designed for cost-conscious, high-volume, embedded applications. The LPC90x family of 8-pin MCUs and the LPC91x family of 14-pin MCUs are suitable for designers of consumer, automotive and industrial control products, ranging from battery-powered devices to white goods.

The LPC90x and LPC91x MCU families include nine devices that integrate important features in compact 8-pin or 14-pin packaging. Both families feature 1K byte-erasable Flash memory organized into 256-byte sectors and 16-byte pages. The advantage of having byte-erasable Flash memory is that any byte(s) can be used as non-volatile data storage, enhancing the flexibility and performance of the MCU. Power-down current is specified at 1µA typical (5µA worst case), making the part well suited for battery-operated applications.

The LPC90x and LPC91x devices feature up to four 16-bit counter/timers with the option to generate a pulse-width modulation signal output. The timers can also be used as a system timer or act as a real-time clock. The new family also includes an eight-pin MCU to integrate a UART on-chip, enabling communication between system components.

The LPC90x and LPC91x families of microcontrollers are available now. For quantities of 10,000, pricing for each device in the TSSOP14 packaging is $0.75 for the LPC912 and $0.82 for the LPC913/LPC914. Pricing for devices in the S08 package are $0.59 for the LPC901, $0.65 for the LPC902/LPC906, $0.67 for the LPC903, $0.69 for the LPC907 and $0.70 for the LPC908. In DIP8 packaging, pricing is $0.66 for the LPC901 and $0.69 for the LPC902.