Microcontrollers (MCUs) ARM®-based Processors Digital Signal Processors (DSP)

16-bit Ultra Low 32-bit Real-Time 32-bit ARM® MCU 32-bit ARM® Application Singlecore DSP Multicore DSP
Power MCU MCUs Processors for Processors
Performance
Applications

MSP430™ C2000™ Tiva™ C Series Sitara™ OMAP™ Processors C6000™ Power KeyStone
Cortex™-M4 Cortex™-A8 and with Cortex™-A8, A9 Optimized Multicore
TMS570 Cortex™-R4 ARM9™ and A15 C5000™ Ultra KeyStone
RM4 Cortex™-R4F KeyStone Low Power Multicore
Cortex™-A15 and DSP+ARM
Cortex™-A15 + DSP C6000™ Multicore

Frequency Frequency Frequency Frequency Frequency Frequency Frequency

Up to 25MHz 40MHz to 300MHz Up to 220MHz 300MHz to 5 GHz Up to 1.7 GHz Up to 1.5 GHz Up to 15GHz
Floating DSP + Video Multicore, fixed/
Accelerators + FFT floating + Accelerators
Accelerators

Memory (KB) Memory (KB) Memory (KB) Memory (KB) Memory (KB) Memory (KB) Memory (KB)

Flash 1KB to 256KB Flash, RAM 16KB to Flash 64 KB to 3MB Up to 32KB I/D cache Up to 32KB i/D L1 L2 Cache mDDR, Up to 4 MB SL2, 32
512KB 256 KB L2, LPDDR1, caches and 2 MB L2 DDR2/DDR3 Up to KB L1, 1MB L2
DDR2/3 support cache 320 KB RAM Up to
256 KB ROM

Key Attributes Key Attributes Key Attributes Key Attributes Key Attributes Key Attributes Key Attributes

Analog I/O, ADC, LCD, PWM, ADC, CAN, SPI, USB, ENET MAC+PHY, USB 3.0 +PHY, Gigabit USB2/3, eMMC, SD/MMC, USB 2.0 +PHY, Gb C66x DSP, ARM®
USB I2C CAN, ADC, PWM, SPI Ethernet MAC, I2S, SPI, UART, HDMI, EMAC, PCIe+PHY, Cortex™-A15,
PCIe+PHY, SATA+PHY, SATA, multiple camera, SATA+PHY, CAN, RapidIO, PCIe,
CAN, PRU-ICSS, 3D multiple display PRU ADC, SPI 10GigE, USB 3.0,
graphics, touchscreen McBSP, I2C, LCD, On- Hyperlink, DDR3,
chip regulators NetCP

Applications Applications Applications Applications Applications Applications Applications

Measurement, Industrial automation, Motion control, HMI, Industrial automation, Automotive, industrial Portable audio/voice, Machine vision, video
sensing, general retail applications/ industrial automation, retail applications/point- automation, enterprise fprint biometrics, infrastructure,
purpose point-of sale, HMI automotive, safety of sale, HMI (Human and mobile consumer portable medical, medical imaging,
(Human Machine Machine Interface), smart video, security, mission critical, base
Interface), smart grid, grid, home and building conferencing, test and stations
cloud infrastructure automation. measurement

$0.25 to $1.85 to $1.00 to $5.00 to $5.00 to $1.99 to $1.99 to

$9.00 USD $20.00 USD $8.00 USD $140.00 USD $200.00 USD $200.00 USD $200.00 USD