Toshiba cuts ARM microcontroller power with 65nm flash

Toshiba says it has dramatically reduced the power consumption of its ARM Cortex-based microcontrollers by integrating a newly developed embedded flash memory process based on a 65nm logic process.

Toshiba said it expects the devices to achieve power consumption of less than 100µA/MHz. This will represent a 60% reduction in power consumption compared to its current microcontrollers.

The first product group will be the TMPM3H, that will be based on ARM Cortex-M3 core. It will be a small package device with 32-100 pins and flash memory capacities of 32-128kbyte.

Sample shipments will start in the second quarter of 2016.

The company plans to follow this with MCUs based on the ARM Cortex-M4F core.

As part of its microcontroller plans Toshiba will embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) that adopts single-poly multi-time programmable cells on its 130nm logic process technology.

Sample shipments will start in the fourth quarter of 2015.

Richard Wilson

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