MCU Flip 80251 Typhoon - 16-bit Microcontroller
upward compatible with 8051
Compared to 8051 standard:
Up to -46% program code size |
Up to x 10 lower power |
Up to x 33 more powerful |
16-bit architectures are known historically for their economic efficiency: they provided the fundamentals for the minicomputer revolution of the seventies, then for the PC revolution of the eighties. Virtual Components of Silicon IP for Systems-on-Chip have emerged and thrived on both 8-bit and 32-bit architectures, and somehow inadvertently skipped its most promising notch.
The demand for ever lower-cost products with increasing connectivity (e.g. USB, Bluetooth, IEEE 802.15) and sophisticated analog sensors (e.g. accelerometers, touch screens) has resulted in the need to more tightly integrate analog devices with digital functionality to pre-process and communicate data. Most 8-bit devices do not offer the performance to sustain these tasks without significant increases in MHz and therefore in power, and so embedded developers are required to look for alternative devices with more advanced processor technology.
The 16-bit MCU Flip80251-Typhoon is a natural upgrade to address energy efficiency concerns in microcontroller applications.
Key Benefits of 16-bit Microcontroller
The virtual component Flip80251 Typhoon is an accelerated C251 microcontroller, which was designed to fulfill the high performance applications requirements and provide a natural upgrade path for the 80C51 microcontroller
It is 100% binary code upward compatible with the legacy 80C51 but optimized for the best Performance/ Complexity ratio!
Its enhanced pipeline architecture delivers 2 times faster processing power than a standard 80C251 and 33 times faster than a standard 80C51.
Moreover, the Instruction Set Architecture provides a significant code size reduction when compiling C program which enables to use smaller and less consuming memory.
Beyond, the Flip80251 Typhoon has been designed with a specific care of power consumption. Its internal architecture uses massively data gating technique which means that only paths used by the current instruction are activated. As a result, the design is well suited for automatic insertion of clock gating by synthesis tool. Such clock gating technique enables to further drive down power consumption.
The extra processing power can be used, either to increase the performance of any 80C51/C251-based application, or to run the same application at a lower clock frequency so as save power up to 90% compared with 80C51!
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