Texas Instruments Announces New TMS320C24x DSP Motor Control Generation

Texas Instruments Inc. (TI, Houston, TX) announced that devices with performance of 40 MIPS are now available for its TMS320C24x DSP motor-control generation. TI claims that the 30-percent performance boost illustrates their progress toward reaching 400 MIPS performance, their goal for the recently announced TMS320C28x core. The C24x DSP generation includes 13 fully code-compatible flash and ROM derivatives, and targets a range of applications from high-performance, industrial-control systems to home appliances.

The 40 MIPS DSPs include the flash-based TMS320LF2402, TMS320LF2406 and TMS320LF2407 devices and the ROM-based TMS320LC2402, TMS320LC2404 and TMS320LC2406 devices, which are the newest generation of DSP motor controllers. The cornerstone is the LF2407, which delivers 64Kb of integrated flash memory; 16 PWM channels; a controller area network module; and an ultra-fast, 500-nanosecond, 10-bit ad converter.

The devices are priced from $2.95 each in 10,000 units, and less than $2 in OEM quantities, and will be available in the fourth quarter of 2000.