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TI introduces fastest Hercules™ MCUs targeted at developers' functional safety industrial, medical, automotive and transportation designs

Hercules RM57Lx and TMS570LCx ARM® Cortex®-R5 MCUs are 50 percent faster with enhanced features for functional safety and largest on-chip memory

HOUSTON, May 22, 2014 — (PRNewswire) —  Adding to its portfolio of SafeTI™ design components, today Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) introduces its latest 32-bit dual-core lockstep Hercules™ RM57Lx and TMS570LCx microcontrollers (MCUs) for developers' functional safety applications. Unique to the Hercules MCU platform, these two new floating-point devices offer a 50 percent increase in computational performance over any of TI's current ARM® Cortex™-R MCUs, allowing system designers to utilize a single Hercules MCU to replace several discrete MCUs or an FPGA-MCU combination. These new Hercules MCUs also provide the largest available on-chip flash and RAM in the Hercules platform, along with several safety feature enhancements.  System and software developers will enjoy an insightful, efficient and powerful debug experience for code profiling and greater execution visibility, enabled by integrated real-time instruction and data trace support.

TI announces fastest Hercules MCU for functional safety

Easing development reuse and product scalability, the new lockstep and cached MCUs are software- and pin-compatible with TI's existing Hercules MCU portfolio. The new Hercules RM57Lx MCUs help developers more easily and quickly meet IEC 61508 functional safety standards for a variety of applications, including railway signaling, aviation anti-skid, programmable logic controllers, motors and drives and medical equipment. The new Hercules TMS570LCx MCUs will likewise help designers more easily and quickly meet the ISO 26262 functional safety standard for transportation applications like advanced driver assistance systems, domain control, electric propulsion systems and off-road vehicles.

Features and benefits of the new Hercules RM57Lx and TMS570LCx MCUs:

Pricing and availability
New Hercules RM57Lx MCUs are priced at $28.32 USD and FlexRay-enabled, Q100 qualified Hercules TMS570LCx MCUs are $32.15 USD in 10KU quantities and are immediately available for order in sample quantities. A variety of tools ranging from $199 to $3,699 USD (for full-featured real-time debug trace) and free software listed above are available today.

Innovation is at the core of TI MCUs
Beginning with the foundation of leading process technology and adding unique system architecture, intellectual property and real-world system expertise, TI continues its 20+ years of MCU innovation with ultra-low-power MSP MCUs, real-time control C2000™ MCUs, TivaARM® MCUs and Hercules safety MCUs.  Designers can accelerate time to market with TI's ecosystem of tools, software, wireless connectivity solutions, extensive Design Network offerings and technical support.

About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is a global semiconductor design and manufacturing company that develops analog ICs and embedded processors.  By employing the world's brightest minds, TI creates innovations that shape the future of technology.  TI is helping more than 100,000 customers transform the future, today.  Learn more at www.ti.com.

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MSP430, C2000, Tiva, Hercules, MotorWare and Code Composer Studio are trademarks of Texas Instruments Incorporated.  All registered trademarks and other trademarks belong to their respective owners.

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