This is a list of common microcontrollers listed by brand.
Until May 2004, these µCs were developed and marketed by IBM, whose 4xx family was sold to Applied Micro Circuits Corporation.
- PowerPC 405
- PPC 405EP
- PPC 405GP/CR
- PPC 405GPr
- PPC NPe405H/L
- PowerPC 440
- PPC 440GP
- PPC 440GX
- PPC 440EP/EPx/GRx
- PPC 440SP/SPe
Charmed Labs
Psoc (Programmable system on CHIP)
- 8051 Family
- MAXQ RISC Family
- Secure Micros Family
ELAN Microelectronics Corp.
ELAN Microelectronics Corporation is an IC designer and provider of 8-bit microcontrollers and PC Peripheral ICs. Headquartered in Hsinchu Science Park, the Silicon Valley of Taiwan, ELAN's microcontroller product range includes the following:
- EM78PXXX Low Pin-Count MCU Family
- EM78PXXX GPIO Type MCU Family
- EM78PXXXN ADC Type MCU Family
These are clones of the 12- and 14-bit Microchip PIC line of processors, but with a 13-bit instruction word.
Energy Micro provides low energy 32-bit microcontrollers using an ARM Cortex-M based processors. The semiconductor company is situated in Oslo, Norway.
EPSON Semiconductor
- 4-bit
- 8-bit
- 16-bit
- 32-bit
Until 2004, these µCs were developed and marketed by Motorola, whose semiconductor division was spun off to establish Freescale.
- F²MC Family (8/16-bit)
- FR Family (32-bit)
- FR-V Family (32-bit RISC)
Holtek Semiconductor is a Taiwan-based designer of 8-bit microcontrollers and peripheral products. Located in the Hsinchu Science Park ([1]), the company's product range includes the following microcontroller device series:
- HT48FXX Flash I/O type series
- HT48RXX I/O type series
- HT46RXX A/D type series
- HT49RXX LCD type series
- HT82XX Computer Peripheral series
- HT95XX Telecom Peripheral series
- HT86XX Voice series
Infineon offers microcontrollers for the automotive, industrial and multimarket industry. DAVE3 a component based auto code generation free tool provides faster development of complex embedded projects.
- 8-bit
- XC800 family Based on the 8051 architecture the XC800 is divided into the A-(Automotive) and I-(Industrial) Family, providing low cost mircos, for example applied in applications like body, safety, motor control, intelligent lighting and electro mobility
- 16-bit
- 32-bit
- Infineon XMC4000 [2] is a ARM Cortex M4F based microcontroller family for industrial applications.
- TriCore™ family is based on a unified RISC/MCU/DSP processor core. Infineon launched the first generation of AUDO (Automotive unified processor) in 1999. The TC1782 is the first member of the AUDO MAX family designed for automotive applications
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- 8-bit
- MCS-48 (8048 family – also incl. 8035, 8038, 8039, 8040, 8X42, 8X49, 8050; X=0 or 7)
- MCS-51 (8051 family – also incl. 8X31, 8X32, 8X52; X=0, 3, 7 or 9)
- 8xC251
- 16-bit
| X | On Chip Code Memory |
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| 0 | No on chip memory |
| 3 | OTP |
| 7 | EEPROM |
| 9 | Flash |
- 8051 (accelerated core) (product line from Dallas Semiconductor acquisition)
- ARM 922T
- MAXQ20
- MAXQ30
- MIPS 4kSD
Microchip produces microcontrollers with 3 very different architectures:
8-bit (8-bit data bus) PICmicro, with a single accumulator (8 bits):
- PIC10 and PIC12: 12-bit instruction words
- PIC16 series: 14-bit instruction words, one address pointer ("indirect register pair")
- PIC16F628 (Replacement for very popular but discontinued PIC16F84)
- PIC18 series: 16-bit instruction words, three address pointers ("indirect register pairs")
16-bit (16-bit data bus) microcontrollers, with 16 general-purpose registers (each 16-bit)
- PIC24: 24-bit instruction words
- dsPIC: based on PIC24, plus DSP functions, such as a single-cycle MAC (multiply–accumulate) into two 40-bit accumulators.
32-bit (32-bit data bus) microcontrollers:
- AM1 (MN101)
- AM2 (MN102)
- AM3 (MN103)
Parallax
- SX
- These were formerly made by Ubicom, former Scenix Semiconductor. The SX die has been discontinued by Ubicom. Parallax has accumulated a large stock of the dies and is managing the packaging.
- SX-18, 20, 28, 48 and 52 versions (Note that the SX-18 and SX-52 have been discontinued)
- Parallax's SX series is an 8-bit microcontroller which has unusually high speed, up to 75 MHz (75 MIPS), and a high degree of flexibility. Andre LaMothe has shown that the SX-52 can be overclocked to 80 MHz (80 MIPS); 5 MHz above the rated clock speed. He has used the SX-52 in thousands of XGameStation development computers all running at 80 MHz. Some users have referred to these microcontrollers as PICs on steroids. While Parallax's SX micros are limited in variety, their high speed and additional resources allow programmers to create 'virtual devices', including complete video controllers, as required. Refer to Parallax's Web site for information, as they are the sole distributor of these devices.
- Propeller
- The Propeller is a 8-core 32-bit microcontroller with 32 kB internal RAM.
Renesas is a joint venture comprising the semiconductor businesses of Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric and NEC Electronics, creating the largest microcontroller manufacturer in the world.
- 4-bit microcontrollers
- 8-bit microcontrollers
- 16-bit microcontrollers
- 32-bit microcontrollers
Rockwell semiconductors (now called Conexant) created a line of 6502 based microcontrollers that were used with their telecom (modem) chips. Most of their microcontrollers were packaged in a QIP package.
Manufactures a line of 8-bit 8051-compatible microcontrollers, notable for high speeds (50–100 MIPS) and large memories in relatively small package sizes. A free IDE is available that supports the USB-connected ToolStick line of modular prototyping boards. These microcontrollers were originally developed by Cygnal. In 2012, the company introduced ARM-based mixed-signal MCUs with very low power and USB options, supported by free Eclipse-based tools.
- C8051F300
- QFN11 package (3×3 mm), 25 MIPS, 8 kB flash memory, 256B RAM, 8 I/O, UART, SMBus, 3 timers, 8-bit 8 ch 500 kbs ADC, temperature sensor, Comparator.
- C8051F120
- TQFP100 package, 128k Flash, 8448B RAM, 64 I/O, 2 UARTS, SMBus, SPI, 5 timers, 12-bit 8ch ADC, 8-bit 8ch ADC, 12-bit 2ch DAC, temperature sensor, 2 comparators, 16×16 MAC.
- SiM3C1xx 32-bit Microcontrollers
- 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 CPU, 80 MHz maximum system clock, 32–256 kB Flash and 8–32 kB SRAM
Silicon Motion
- SM2XX - Flash memory card controllers
- SM321 - USB 2.0
- SM323 - USB 2.0
- SM323E - USB 2.0
- Silicon Motion's SM321E and SM324 controllers support SLC and MLC NAND flash from Samsung, Hynix, Toshiba and ST Micro as well as flash products from Renesas, Infineon and Micron. The SM321E is available in a 48-pin LQFP package and a 44-pin LGA package. The SM321E supports up to 4 SLC or MLC NAND flash chips with 4 bytes / 528 bytes ECC
- SM324 - USB 2.0
- Supports dual-channel data transfer at read speeds of 233× (35 MB/s) and write speeds of 160× (24 MB/s), making it the fastest USB 2.0 flash disk controller in the market. The SM324 also has serial peripheral interface (SPI) which allows for not only Master and Slave modes, but the flexibility to develop more functionality into USB flash disk (UFD) products such as GPS, fingerprint sensor, Bluetooth and memory-capacity display. The SM324 is available in a 64-pin LQFP package. The SM324 supports 8 SLC or MLC NAND flash chips with 4 bytes / 528 bytes ECC.
- SM325 - USB 2.0
- SM330 - USB 2.0
- SM501, SM502 - Mobile Graphics
- SM712 - Mobile Graphics
- SM722 - Mobile Graphics
- SM340 - MP3/JPEG
- SM350 - MP3/JPEG
- SM370 - Image processing
- SPC700 series
- SPC900 series
- SPC970 series
- SR11 series
The Sitara family in particular provide a high level of community-based, open source support. [1][2]
- IP2022
- Ubicom's IP2022 is a high performance (120 MIPS) 8-bit microcontroller. Features include: 64k flash code memory, 16 kB PRAM (fast code and packet buffering), 4 kB data memory, 8-channel A/D, various timers, and on-chip support for Ethernet, USB, UART, SPI and GPSI interfaces.
- IP3022
- IP3022 is Ubicom's latest high performance 32bit processor running at 250 MHz featuring 8 hardware threads (barrel processor). It is specifically targeted at Wireless Routers.
Xemics
- XE8000 8-bit microcontroller family
Zilog's (primary) microcontroller families, in chronological order:
- Older:
- Newer:
- Zilog eZ8 - Better pipelined Z8 (2–3 times as clock cycle efficient as original Z8) with on-chip flash memory and SRAM.
- Zilog eZ80 - Fast 8/16/24-bit Z80 (3–4 times as cycle efficient as original Z80) with flash, SRAM, peripherals; linear addressing of 16 MB.
- Zilog Z16 - Fast 8/16/32-bit CPU with compact object code; 16 MB (4 GB possible) addressing range; flash, SRAM, peripherals, on chip.
Sortable table
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| Energy Micro | EFM32TG110 | ARM Cortex M3 | 32 | Production | 32 | 32 | 4 | $2.47 | 157 μA/MHz @ 32 MHz | 1μA | | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2x 16-bit timers. 12-bit 1 Msps ADC. 12-bit 500 ksps DAC. |
| Zilog | eZ80 | Fast Z80 | 8/16 | Production | 50 | 256 | 16 | $7.79 | | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | Linear addressing up to 16 MB. 3-4x faster than traditional Z80. |
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