Texas Instruments' Ultra-Low-Power MSP430 Design Wins Technology Innovation Award

The Technology Innovation Award is presented to the company that has demonstrated technological superiority within its industry, distinguishing it as a success in making noteworthy product performance contributions. The award recognizes TI's MSP430 ultra-low power technology as truly ground-breaking and first of its kind in the market.

"Binding the code effective architecture with Signal-Chain-on-Chip and unique inherent low-power design has enabled Texas Instruments to develop the MSP430 microcontroller to stand apart from the rest of the products in the market," said Ramanan Rajagopalan, research analyst, Frost & Sullivan. "Combining the strength of Texas Instruments in embedded analog circuits and low power technology, MSP430 has proven to be the cost-effective solution for a wide spectrum of applications including utility metering, handheld meter, security systems and gas meters."

Award-Winning Technology
The MSP430 family includes a flexible clock system with five low-power modes, enabling unmatched ultra-low power performance. The family features a typical standby current consumption as low as 0.8uA with a real-time clock function active. Total power consumption is 10 times lower than competitive devices due to the fast instruction execution and MSP430´s ability to start-up from standby in less than six microseconds with a fully synchronized high-speed system clock.

The MSP430's ultra-low power technology and high performance analog capability offer a true signal-chain-on-chip (SCoC) solution to customers, which includes 12-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADC), digital-to-analog converters (DAC) and direct memory access (DMA). Designers are now able to cater to smaller applications at a fraction of the code size, with the MSP430's modern design that makes for more effective processing and is smaller and more code-efficient than other 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers.