TI Korea (CEO Kent Jeon, www.ti.com/ww/kr ) December 13, 2013 – TI Korea (CEO Kent Jeon) has set a new standard for performance by announcing the new C2000™ Delfino™ 32-bit F2837xD microcontroller (MCU), an innovative product for industrial real-time control. This new MCU features dual-core C28x processing capabilities and dual real-time control law accelerators (CLAs), delivering 800 MIPS of floating-point performance, enabling developers to create low-latency systems for control applications requiring high levels of computational performance. Furthermore, complexity can be reduced by integrating multiple embedded processors into a single MCU for applications requiring real-time signal analysis, such as high-end servo drives, solar centralized inverters, and industrial uninterruptible power supplies (UPS).

Customers can precisely control and monitor multiple feedback inputs simultaneously by utilizing the powerful built-in analog peripherals with the Delfino F2837xD MCU. Providing four independent 16-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), the F2837xD MCU can precisely and efficiently manage multiple analog signals, ensuring overall system processing capability for solutions such as three-phase motor monitoring. Developers can safely shut down motors using the built-in window comparator to protect critical power stages, while the sigma-delta demodulator can interface directly with isolated converters, providing noise immunity to the MCU.

Introducing the first scalable MCU series targeting industrial applications
The Delfino F2837xD MCU is the first product in the innovative C2000 MCU series. All MCUs in this series are pin and software compatible, providing a diverse range of performance capabilities to meet the varying performance requirements of product lines, from servo drives for factory automation to elevator drivers. The Delfino F2837xD MCU and future single-core derivatives enable customers to reduce hardware and software development time and costs, even when product platform selection methods change.

Key Features and Advantages of the Delfino F2837xD MCU
• No need for multiple embedded processors with 800 MIPS integrated performance of dual C28x cores and dual CLA
• Two real-time control accelerators, or CLAs, relieve the load on the main CPU (C28x cores) from high-performance control loop analysis, generating additional bandwidth and allowing the main processor to focus on system diagnostics or application management.
• Safely execute trigonometric-based algorithms used for control functions, such as torque loops, which were previously performed on FPGAs, using the new TMU (trigonometric math unit) accelerator embedded in the C28x core.
• Predict motor failures more accurately by performing vibration analysis with the VCU II (viterbi complex unit) accelerator, which enhances the processing performance of the C28x core.
• Improves system accuracy in industrial applications, such as solar centralized inverters and high-end industrial UPS systems, by using four 16-bit ADCs to finely control and monitor multiple feedback.
• Seamless interfacing with TI's AMC1204 isolated delta-sigma comparator reduces MCU input noise and enables isolated current shunt measurement
• Protect the power stage from current faults using a window comparator
• By launching products of various performance levels within the new C2000 MCU series that provide a pin and software-compatible architecture for future products, time to market is shortened and development costs are reduced.
•The F2837xD controlCARD, compatible with existing kits, uses the existing C2000 controlCARD format, so this hardware can be used with existing application kits.
• Centralized software development is possible with examples, header files, application libraries, and many features included in controlSUITE, which is available for free download ( www.ti.com ).