Focus on the smart industrial market: MCU, Xintangzhuang

[Introduction] Under the impetus of intelligent automation, the smart factory model is beginning to appear. At present, industrial automation is still dominated by mechanical arms, which has led to a significant increase in the demand for MCUs occupying a place in the field of motor control, and the market has huge business opportunities. In order to effectively seize the market share, Freescale, TI and other giants have increased their competition to compete in the battle. At the time of the crowd, a local MCU company successfully broke out. Key words:

Intelligent Industrial MCU

Driven by the trend of intelligent automation, the smart factory model is emerging. At present, industrial automation is still dominated by mechanical arms, which has led to a significant increase in the demand for MCUs occupying a place in the field of motor control, and the market has huge business opportunities. In order to effectively seize the market share, Freescale, TI and other giants have increased their competition to compete in the battle. At the time of the crowd, a local MCU company successfully broke out.

As early as the commercial mask MCU was widely available in the market in 1992, Xintang has begun to provide MCUs with built-in flash memory specifications, and it continues to ship steadily. Huang Ri'an, director of marketing and marketing department of Xintang Technology Microcontroller, pointed out that this is a kind of persistence, a long-term partnership, and the core competitiveness of Xintang.

Huang Ri'an said that the application environment in the industrial market is relatively harsh, and the MCU has high anti-noise requirements and must withstand high temperatures. In view of this, Xintang specializes in providing a wide operating temperature specification MCU from -40 ° C to 105 ° C to meet the needs of the industrial market and to take the lead.

The motor consumes too much energy, and the smart + energy saving is on the same side.

Motor control is an important area of ​​MCU application. Many of the equipment is related to the use of the motor, and 56% of the industrial consumption is consumed by the motor, which is the most energy-consuming part of the earth. Therefore, how to better improve the efficiency of motor control to achieve energy-saving requirements, and effectively alleviate and solve energy-consuming problems is an urgent task.

Huang Ri'an said that the future of smart and energy conservation is the trend. In recent years, Xintang has reached cooperation with a number of research institutions to develop MCUs that are suitable for intelligent and control motor energy saving, especially for DC brushless motors, with chords, no Hoo-wave, vector control, etc. provide excellent solutions. From the beginning, specification, circuit design, and system verification are all considered to meet the needs of smart industry.

FPGA accelerates into high-end applications, MCU lost to defeat?

The FPGA can be quickly finished, and its internal logic can be modified repeatedly by the designer to correct errors in the program. It has the advantages of convenience and flexibility. However, the mass production cost is too high, which is more affordable than the MCU. Huang Ri'an pointed out that many functions of MCU are designed before leaving the factory. Users only need to use software to realize the function, and they don't have to create a function from scratch. In addition, the MCU is the most appropriate product developed specifically for the industry or the system. The products that can be selected are diverse and cost-effective. Therefore, there is no factor that the FPGA will affect the MCU market.

Huang Ri'an further emphasized that the application of FPGA depends on the applicability of the product, while the MCU can be used in a variety of product applications. Therefore, from the perspective of the difficulty of software and hardware, the MCU is particularly incapable of being replaced. Sex.

In the future, Xintang MCU product development plan will move in the direction of three-thirds. The so-called three-point 8-bit machine, 32-bit machine and ARM7/9 three CPU cores, three-stage is based on these three core development comprehensive products, covering low, medium and high-end specifications and performance requirements to meet each Intelligent industrial control application.

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