ambiqmicro – Ultra-Low Power Microcontroller

The Apollo family of microcontrollers from Ambiq Micro represents a quantum leap forward in the low-power MCU world. Power sensitive applications today are not looking for incremental reductions in energy consumption – they need revolutionary advances and the Apollo MCUs deliver. These highly-integrated microcontrollers offer industry-leading power numbers in BOTH active modes and sleep modes. Additionally, they offer the performance of an ARM Cortex-M4F core at power levels that are even lower than competing ARM Cortex-M0+ solutions. Unrivaled power savings combined with a high-performance processing engine make the Apollo MCUs an ideal solution for battery-powered devices and other power-sensitive applications.

Features

Ultra-low active mode power consumption: 30?A/MHz (executing from Flash)

Ultra-low sleep mode power consumption: 100nA (with RTC on)

High-performance, 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4F processor

Up to 24MHz clock frequency

– Floating point unit

– Wake-up interrupt controller with 12 interrupts

Ultra-low power memory

– Up to 512kB Flash

– Up to 64kB low-leakage RAM

Ultra-low power interface for off-chip sensors

– 10-bit, 13-channel, 1MS/s ADC

– Temperature sensor with ?2?C accuracy

Rich set of timing peripherals

Flexible serial peripherals

– I2C/SPI master for communication with external peripherals

– I2C/SPI slave for optional host communications

– UART for communication with peripherals and legacy devices

Wide operating range: 1.8 to 3.8V

Compact package options

– 64-pin BGA with 50 GPIO

– 42-pin CSP with 28 GPIO

http://ambiqmicro.com/low-power-microcontroller

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