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Article: Toshiba Drives Power-Efficient Appliance Design With New Dual-Motor, ARM Technology-Based Microcontroller.
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- Electronics Newsweekly
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)*, a committed leader that collaborates with technology companies to create breakthrough designs, announced availability of the company's newest microcontroller (MCU), the TMPM370. Toshiba's TMPM370 32-bit MCU is designed for use in high-efficiency AC motor applications such as washing machines, refrigerators and air conditioners. The device combines an 80MHz ARM[R] Cortex™-M3 processing core with a hardware vector engine, providing enough computation capability to drive two independent motors. The TMPM370 is the first ARM Cortex-M3 processor-based MCU to include a hardware vector engine. The TMPM370 MCU is also the ...