Freescale ships ‘lowest power’ mcus

Claimed to be the most efficient in the world, the 32bit devices are the first to be featured on the new Freescale Freedom development platform; a small, low power evaluation and development system for quick application prototyping and demonstration. Both the platform and the first member of the Kinetis L series, the KL25, are now available through distributors element 14, Digi-Key and Mouser Electronics. "We've driven an aggressive timeline to get the world's most energy efficient mcus into our customers' hands as soon as possible," said Geoff Lees, vp and general manager of Freescale's industrial and multi market mcu business. "Six months after the announcement of the ARM Cortex-M0+ core, Freescale is delivering the fully qualified Kinetis L series in volume production quantities to help legacy 8-and 16bit users ease the transition to 32bit." Key features of the KL25 include a 48MHz ARM Cortex-M0+ core, 16k of sram, scalable flash memory options, pin counts and analogue, communication, timing and control peripherals, 12bit a/d converter, low power touch sensing and a usb 2.0 full speed host/device. The mcu is also pin and software compatible with the Kinetis K20 family, providing a migration path to dsp performance and advanced feature integration. A detailed article about the new Kinetis L range can be found in the 11 September issue of New Electronics here.