Floating your industrial boat
30 April 2010
Floating Point Unit, is a new technology from Atmel that is being designed for the company’s 32-bit AVR UC3 product family.
This technology will enable designers to replace a two chip microcontroller and digital signal processing solution with just one Atmel MCU for applications in the automotive and industrial control markets.
A feature of Atmel’s 32-bit AVR UC3 MCUs is the architecture’s very high digital signal processing performance, offering fixed point and integer arithmetic support which are usually found only in high end DSPs. A Floating Point Unit improves processing performance by allowing the MCU to perform arithmetic calculations on decimal numbers in fewer clock cycles with higher precision.
This will benefit a wide range of applications; motor control algorithms can be improved to allow the motor to run more silently or consuming less energy, sensor data can be filtered or analysed to suppress noise and capture more useful information, and audio data can be processed without loss of fidelity.
The Floating Point Unit will be introduced in selected AVR UC3 family members targeting the automotive and industrial control. The first devices to arrive will include advanced analogue modules, such as dual high-speed 12-bit ADCs, dual high-speed 12-bit DACs and intelligent motor control. The new devices will also include features such as peripheral intelligence, memory-to- memory DMA controller and peripheral event system introduced to the UC3 microcontrollers in 2009.
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