Achieve seamless digital power management and motor control in automotive and industrial applications with TI's real-time microcontrollers (MCUs)
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C29 core: Safety and security-rich control
A next-generation 64-bit real-time core for demanding control systems. Includes advanced safety architectures and built-in security features.
C28 core: Deterministic control
A 32-bit fixed- or floating-point control core, optimized for fast, predictable real-time performance in digital power and motor control.
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F29H85 series: safety, security and control
Integrates a C29 CPU core and E-Safety Vehicle Intrusion Protected Applications (Evita) hardware security module (HSM) with Autosar and MCU abstraction layer (MCAL) software support.
F28P55 MCUs: Edge intelligence
These MCUs combine a neural network processing unit with real-time control-enabling intelligent power conversion and system monitoring.
F28P65 MCUs: Control and integration
Advanced pulse-width modulation, precision analog, Controller Area Network-Flexible Data Rate and safety features in a compact package for efficient and secure power control.
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Hardware
Once you've identified the C2000 real-time MCU you would like to evaluate, explore our broad portfolio of solutions including a selection of starter kits, full-featured evaluation modules (EVMs) and reference designs.
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Explore our key technologies
Double real-time performance and enhance security support with the C29 MCU core
The C29 MCU includes the next-generation CPU of the C28 core, which has been around for over two decades. It offers a very long instruction word (VLIW) architecture with a fully protected pipeline, along with multiple instruction sizes.
Benefits:
- Improved instruction parallelism and bus throughput.
- Highly efficient real-time control with low latency.
- High-performance general-purpose and digital signal processing (DSP) capabilities.
- Better code efficiency.
- Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) D functional safety capabilities with code isolation in hardware.
- Enhanced debugging and trace capability.
Improve system efficiency and safety with accurate fault detection
Edge artificial intelligence (AI) makes electronics more responsive, efficient and secure. Bringing computational power closer to the data source enables decisions on the device instead of in the cloud. C2000 MCUs can help you achieve edge AI both with and without an integrated neural processing unit (NPU).
Benefits:
- Up to 99% accuracy in motor bearing, arc fault detection, blower imbalance detection and onboard charger grid system condition monitoring.
- Single-chip solution eases design and development.
- Complete tool chain and ecosystem with documentation to support quicker time to market.
- The NPU enables five to 10 times lower latency.
Motor Fault Detection with Edge AI C2000 MCUs
Edge AI with C2000 MCUs for More Accurate and Reliable Arc Fault Detection
Advanced motor control and digital power conversion
Our scalable, ultra-low-latency, real-time MCUs enhance efficiency in power electronics. Our portfolio has a range of design resources to help you evaluate and develop your application.
Benefits:
- Highly accurate sensing.
- Higher performance control.
- Advanced actuation.
- Tight peripheral coupling.
Enable run-time functional safety protections
C2000 MCUs include devices with Technischer Überwachungsverein (TÜV SÜD)-certified functional safety development processes, supporting both automotive (up to ASIL D) and industrial (up to SIL 3) safety applications.
Benefits:
- Safety-focused architecture with built-in diagnostic features.
- Certified processes to ease system-level safety assessment.
- Prebuilt software libraries to implement key safety mechanisms.
- Safety and security unit, lockstep core architecture and dual clock comparator.
- Software diagnostic library with implementation examples.
- Autosar-compliant MCAL drivers.
Design secure and reliable systems
Consider C2000 MCUs in applications that require strong security functionality. Our scalable devices are compatible with a comprehensive ecosystem of tools, libraries, software examples and documentation.
Key security modules:
- EVITA full compliant hardware security modules
- Safety and security unit
- Dual code security module (DCSM)
Discover featured applications
Increase power efficiency when converting high- to low-voltage applications and design quick hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) and electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions without compromising safety
C2000 real-time MCUs can help scale and address architecture challenges in HEV, EV and powertrain systems. Advanced architectures in our real-time digital controllers increase power efficiency and power density to enable fast and efficient EV high- to low-voltage DC/DC conversion onboard charging and optimized thermal management.
Benefits:
- Higher power density.
- Lower power losses.
- Faster charging.
- Efficient, high-performance DC/DC conversion.
- Certified to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 26262 functional safety standard.
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Optimize grid-tied and microinverter system costs and minimize power-conversion losses
In solar inverters, EV charging and renewable energy storage applications, power-conversion systems require precise real-time control to increase power density and improve efficiency. C2000 real-time MCUs offer a scalable platform, the latest topology reference designs, and software packages to help you overcome your design challenges.
Benefits:
- 150ps high-resolution PWMs help unlock the potential of gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC).
- Artificial intelligence-based solar arc fault detection with ≤99% accuracy.
- PowerSUITE™ software for ease of use and reduced time to market.
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Enable high-performance motor control with functional safety and industrial communications
Our C2000 real-time MCUs help you overcome your design challenges to create differentiated power solutions.
Benefits:
- Up to 4MSPS analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and optimized comparators to enable high power efficiency and a fast transient response.
- 100MIPS to 1,200MIPS performance helps speed up processing for complex time-critical calculations and algorithms.
- Flexible, 75ps high-resolution PWMs enable precise control of complex power topologies, complementing the high power-density needs of GAN and SiC designs.
- Enhanced security with dedicated and scalable HSMs.
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Enhance comfort, safety and ilumination in automotive designs by improving HVAC and visiblity
C2000 MCUs bring advanced solutions to HEV/EV body electronics and lighting systems, with technology tailored for adaptive headlights, efficient motor pumps, and air-conditioning e-pumps. Our device portfolio supports low noise, low vibration and high startup torque for sensorless motor-control applications, enabling more advanced, efficient and flexible designs.
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Maximize motor and power efficiency, optimize system costs, and improve reliability
Our C2000 MCUs and design resources help you design industrial solutions for equipment such as motor drives, servos, computer numerical control, robotics, appliances, e-bikes and power tools.
Benefits:
- Optimized field-oriented control.
- Comprehensive rotor position feedback for Hall-effect sensors, resolvers, incremental or absolute encoders, and sensorless observers.
- Diverse current-sensing techniques and isolation architectures.
- Flexible real-time connectivity for many communications protocols.
- Certified to ISO 26262 and International Electrotechnical Commission 60730.
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Enhance safety with electric power steering, lidar, and airbag and braking systems
As HEV, EV and internal combustion engine architectures evolve, our C2000 MCUs enable safer handling of electric power steering through real-time controllers and detectors, while increasing safety with our light detection and ranging (lidar) sensing technologies. C2000 MCUs help improve regenerative braking in advanced driver assistance systems. These MCUs are anchored by a 32-bit DSP core, advanced PWMs, integrated fast ADCs and windowed comparators.
Benefits:
- Better handling and faster response.
- Cybersecured with an HSM and Evita.
- ASIL-D certified with firmware over-the-air updates.