MCUs celebrate 12th birthday in motor control market

The F281x MCUs offer an integration of high-performance digital signal processing, high-precision analog and flash memory on a single chip. This integration has made the MCUs suitable for range of applications, including drives and automation, automotive, aerospace, digital power, solar and smart grid technology.

“Delta Industrial Automation and Digital Power groups decided to use TI’s C2000 F281x MCU devices 10 years ago when we needed DSP performance with integrated analog and flash on a single chip,” said Dr. Jacky Chen, Principal Servo Drives Design Manager, Delta Electronics. “Since that time, the compatible roadmap to new Delfino and Piccolo devices has made it easy for us to evolve our products while TI’s continued commitment to this day to the F281x MCU generation makes us comfortable that our products based on C2000 microcontrollers will still be in production for many years to come.”

“The response from our customers to the C2000 F281x generation of MCUs has been tremendous, and we’re excited that customers remain devoted to these MCUs 12 years later,” said Brian Fortman, Marketing Manager, C2000 MCUs, TI. “When we first announced the F281x MCUs, they offered an integrated feature set that was ahead-of-its-time and were the first true software programmable system-on-chip for advanced motor control. Customers still see the integrated features of this chip as ideal for a broad set of motor control applications today.”