New product innovations from FTDI
FTDI's focus at Embedded World was on two new families of microcontrollers, each tailored for specific applications. The company terms these as AOCs – application oriented controllers – and initially there are two families, the FT51 and the FT900.
The 8bit FT51 is designed to address control system deployments, while the 32bit FT900 is aimed at use in high-performance systems such as video imaging, multimedia and other demanding, cost-sensitive activities involving large amounts of data.
Both families employ an extensive selection of IO options. The FT51's 8051 CPU core has been tuned in order to achieve 48MIPS processing capacity. Its USB hub function enables sub-systems to be cascaded, while a suite of A/D and D/A converters facilitate sensor interfacing.
By executing instructions from shadow RAM, rather than flash memory, the FT900 can operate at true zero wait states up to 100MHz and 293DMIPS performance. It has a built-in camera interface for attachment to CMOS imaging modules with VGA resolution.
