Toshiba’s Arm® Cortex®M Core-based Microcontrollers Support Mbed™ OS
May 28, 2018
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
TOKYO—Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”), as a Silicon Partner of Mbed (a device management solution for IoT platforms developed by Arm Ltd), acquired the certification of Mbed OS for its microcontrollers. Two evaluation boards that integrate these microcontrollers have been released on the Arm Mbed site.
Mbed provides developers with a free, easy-to-use development environment. The online compiler provided by Arm can be used with evaluation boards supporting Mbed OS, and device programming can be performed with drag-and-drop simplicity on a host PC connected to the boards via USB. Developers can also access the rich component libraries verified by the Mbed community, allowing fast and efficient development of applications for embedded devices.
The Arm Mbed Device Connector service provides connectivity with the Mbed Cloud, facilitating easy configuration of web services.
Among the Toshiba group companies, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation is working on strengthening device security of IoT equipment as an Mbed Cloud lead partner. As Toshiba microcontrollers now support Mbed OS, the Toshiba group can propose and deliver total solutions for secure IoT systems covering clouds to devices.
Toshiba will be expanding products supporting Mbed OS with Mbed ecosystem partners.
Main features of microcontrollers supporting Mbed OS
- Support for numerous applications with Cortex-M0 and Cortex-M4 based microcontrollers
TX00 general-purpose microcontrollers with USB support function and TX04 microcontrollers with security function extend product choices.
- Support for a wide range of applications via Arduino-compatible connector
Applications can be developed quickly by connecting to a commercially available ArduinoShield board.
- Support for IoT applications via Mbed
Using Mbed Cloud allows secure connection with web services.
Outline and main specifications of microcontrollers supporting Mbed OS
Product 1
| Part Number |
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| Main specifications | CPU | Arm® Cortex®-M0 |
| Maximum frequency | 24MHz | |
| Built-in memory | 128 Kbyte Flash, 16 Kbyte SRAM | |
| Operating voltage | 1.8 to 3.6 V | |
| DMA | 28 channels (1 unit) | |
| USB | 1 channel (full-speed device) | |
| 10bit ADC | 8 channels | |
| UART/SIO | 2 channels | |
| I2C | 2 channels | |
| 16-bit Timer | 10 channels | |
| High resolution PPG | 1 unit, 4 outputs | |
| External interrupt pin | 6 pins | |
| TSPI | 1 channel | |
| Package | LQFP64 (10 mm x 10 mm, 0.5 mm pitch) | |
Product 2
| Part number |
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| Main specification | CPU | Arm® Cortex®-M4 processor with FPU |
| Maximum frequency | 120MHz | |
| Built-in memory | 1024 Kbyte Flash, 513 Kbyte SRAM | |
| Operating voltage | 2.7 to 3.6 V | |
| 12-bit ADC | 8 channels | |
| DMA | 32 channels (3 units) | |
| 16-bit Timer | 8 channels | |
| Interrupt input | 16 channels | |
| Clock-independent WDT | 1unit | |
| SSP | 3 channels | |
| SIO/UART | 4 channels | |
| Full UART | 2 channels | |
| I2C | 3 channels | |
| SLC NAND Flash controller | 1unit | |
| Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) | 1unit | |
| Hash function generator (SHA) | 1unit | |
| Random number seed generator (ESG) | 1unit | |
| Multiple-length arithmetic circuit (MLA) | 1unit | |
| Package | LQFP100 (14 mm x 14 mm, 0.5 mm pitch) |
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* DMA: Direct Memory Access
* 1 Kbyte is calculated as 1024 bytes
For details of Mbed enabled microcontrollers, visit the following websites.
Mbed evaluation boards
The Mbed evaluation boards for each microcontroller are provided by sensyst, as AdBun series products, as follows:
| Mbed products | Mbed evaluation board (sensyst product name) |
|---|---|
| TMPM066FWUG | AdBun-M066 |
| TMPM46BF10FG | AdBun-M46B |
TMPM066FWUG evaluation board (AdBun-M066)
TMPM46BF10FG evaluation board (AdBun-M46B)
Each board is available from Chip 1 Stop. For details of the board specifications, refer to the following Chip 1 Stop website at:
For details of Arm Mbed, visit Arm’s Mbed website at:
* Arm and Cortex are registered trademarks of Arm Limited (or its subsidiaries) in the US and/or elsewhere.
* Mbed is a trademark of Arm Limited (or its subsidiaries) in the US and/or elsewhere.
* Arduino is a trademark of Arduino AG.
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