I run PICs with coils. It is easily possible to cover all frequencies between 50 Khz and 14 MHz.This is a highly competitive field.
Compare:
|TI MSP430G2xxx| Microchip PIC16LFxxxx
STOP |0.1μA|0.02μA
Standby|0.5μA|0.5μA
@1MHz|230μA @ 2.2V|170μA @ 3V
The dev board they gave me even has a real time current monitor that integrates into their IDE so you can measure the current consumption of various routines.Energy Micro Press Release said:Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller and radio company, announces that in an evaluation using IAR Systems tools, Energy Micros 32-bit EFM32 Gecko microcontroller has demonstrated the industrys best CoreMark number for a device based on the feature-rich ARM Cortex-M3 core. The EFMTG840F32 achieved a score of 15.4 CoreMark/mA using IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM version 6.40, over 20 percent more efficient in active mode than even the Cortex-M0+ devices (a less powerful processor) recently launched by a major semiconductor company. The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC), a non-profit organization founded in 1997, developed CoreMark processor benchmarking to enable real-world performance comparisons between different microcontrollers and processors.
Coils? for oscillator elements? Can you explain?I run PICs with coils. It is easily possible to cover all frequencies between 50 Khz and 14 MHz.