Industry 4.0 microcontrollers cut design costs

24th October 2016

Mick Elliott

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The FM4 S6E2G-series microcontrollers from Cypress Semiconductor are now being shipped by Mouser Electronics.Designed for industrialautomation and metering applications, the 32-bit S6E2G-Series offers highly integrated hardware-based features and standards-compliant firmware libraries that simplify functional safety compliance, is suited to Industry 4.0 applications, and delivers the scalability to minimise design costs and accelerate time-to-market.

The microcontrollers are based on a 608 CoreMark, 180-MHz ARM Cortex-M4 CPU core. They come equipped with up to 1 MByte of on-chip flash memory and up to 192 kBytes of SRAM with a 16-kByte flash accelerator.

The devices provide Error-Correcting Code (ECC) support, and include a hardware watchdog timer (WDT), low-voltage detect, and clock supervisor blocks for safety-critical applications.

The S6E2G-Series also supports a digital and analog subsystem that features a variety of high-end peripherals and communication modules, including IEEE 1588Ethernet, CAN, a hardware-based Crypto Assist Module, serial communication interfaces (USB, UART, CSIO (SPI), I²C, LIN), as well as and up to 153 general-purpose inputs and outputs (GPIOs), advanced control peripherals, 12-bit analogue-to-digital converters (ADCs), and a Quadrature Position/Revolution Counter.

The S6E2G-Series is supported by the FM4 S6E2GM Pioneer Kit, which enables rapid development of high-performance embedded systems using an Arduino Uno-compatible interface to connect to Arduino shields for low-cost hardware expansion.

The Pioneer board's peripherals include an accelerometer and phototransistor, a stereo codec, and multi-color LEDs, plus a microphone jack, line-in jack, and headphone jack.

Cypress’ FM4 S6E2G-Series microcontrollers are available now at Mouser Electronics in both 144-pin and 176-pin LQFP packages, and operate over a temperature range of -40 to +105 degrees Celsius. The devices are ideally-suited for a broad array of motor control, factory automation, industrial, home appliance and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.