NXP Semiconductors has announced the availability of low-pin-count package options - SO20, TSSOP20, TSSOP28 and DIP28 - for its ARM Cortex-M0 LPC1100 microcontrollers. The 32bit ARM microcontrollers target applications such as human interface devices, consumer electronics, alarm systems, small appliances and simple motor control. The LPC1102 is claimed to be the world's smallest 32bit microcontroller adn is available in a 2x2mm chip-scale package. The SO and DIP packages provide customer prototyping with the ability to hand-solder, simplifying hardware requirements for programming and debugging. The TSSOP packages are claimed to eliminate potential reflow process in production. The series is claimed to execute sophisticated algorithms at low power, and the microcontrollers are suitable for interfacing with sensors and performing complex control tasks. The company's Cortex-M0 microcontrollers feature timers with PWM generation, dynamic system clock switching, clock output, interrupt via any GPIO, programmable pull up, down, open drain, and enhanced GPIO pin manipulation. Other features include Cortex-M0 CPU at 130µA/MHz, up to 50MHz CPU clock, up to 4kbyte SRAM and 32kbyte flash, SPI, UART and I2C, five-channel 10bit ADC, two 32bit timers and two 16bit timers, 1% accuracy, 12MHz internet relay chat, power profile options via API calls.
