General-purpose MCUs

Low-power, low-cost, high-impact AI at the edge

Bring powerful artificial intelligence (AI) to the edge without the cost or power trade-offs. Our MCUs deliver ultra-low power and affordable edge AI capable of running a wide range of AI models directly on the device with minimal energy consumption. The combination of the TinyEngine™ neural processing unit (NPU) acceleration and advanced analog integration help address challenges such as classification, fault detection and predictive analytics at ultra-low latency and ultra-low power.

Benefits:

• Run AI models at the edge on low-cost hardware.
• Flexible deployment on a CPU or NPU.
• NPU acceleration and advanced analog for unique edge capabilities.

Tiny but mighty

As electrical circuits and system designs become smaller, board space is now considered a scarce and valuable resource. This trend has driven semiconductor innovation resulting in manufacturing advancements, package optimization and increased feature integration, enabling designers to effectively get more for less.

Our Arm Cortex-M MCU portfolio provides scalable pin-to-pin packages specifically designed to add more features to a product without increasing board size. Further size optimizations include new wafer-chip-scale and ball-grid array packaging, providing more options and possibilities when designing products in a shrinking world. 

Design secure and reliable systems

As industrial, automotive and personal electronics applications become more connected, and as the tools available to attackers continue to grow, the importance of device security in embedded applications continues to increase. Our portfolio of general-purpose MCUs include a variety of hardware and software security technologies for engineers to leverage when developing an application with security in mind.

Our Arm Cortex-M MCUs offer a range of cybersecurity enablers including secure boot, cryptographic acceleration, Immutable Root of Trust,  Arm TrustZone® technology, and PSA Certified Level 1 options. As the MCUs scale from low cost to high performance, the cybersecurity enablers scale in parallel.

Embedded solutions paired with open-source RTOS

Build with confidence using open-source software backed by TI’s broad embedded portfolio and long-term product availability. Our Platinum-level membership in the Zephyr Foundation ensures you benefit from TI’s industry leadership, delivering a stable and fully supported ecosystem ready for production.

Choose between the official Zephyr repository with TI upstream contributions or TI-maintained and validated downstream Zephyr repositories. Streamline your development workflow across your portfolio using one comprehensive ecosystem.