{"id":836,"date":"2011-10-28T15:44:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T07:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/?p=836"},"modified":"2013-07-06T13:00:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T05:00:17","slug":"cortex-m0-microcontrollers-in-dip28-tssop20-tssop28-and-so20-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/28\/cortex-m0-microcontrollers-in-dip28-tssop20-tssop28-and-so20-packages\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortex-M0 Microcontrollers in DIP28, TSSOP20, TSSOP28, and SO20 Packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things are getting very interesting lately on the 32-bit microcontroller market segment. 32-bit microcontroller&#8217;s attempt to get into the application area currently occupied by 8-bit microcontroller is even more possible now as NXP has just announced the\u00a0availability\u00a0of \u00a0ARM\u00ae Cortex-M0 microcontroller in SO20, TSSOP20, TSSOP28 &amp; DIP28 package (QFN16 package is also offered by other vendor). Just image that 32-bit Cortex-M0 microcontroller sitting on an Arduino board instead of the ATMega328P! We have been toying with some M0 chips on some custom boards for a while now and we believe the availability of the breadboard friendly DIP28 Cortex-M0 chip is definitely welcomed by the maker community.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some stuff that we like about the chips is the on-chip bootloader that you can use an FTDI USB-Serial converter to load your application code using <a title=\"Flash Magic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flashmagictool.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FlashMagic<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full story <a title=\"LPC1100L\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nxp.com\/news\/press-releases\/2011\/10\/nxp-cortex-m0-microcontrollers-in-high-volume-tssop-and-so-packages-target-8-16-bit-applications.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are getting very interesting lately on the 32-bit microcontroller market segment. 32-bit microcontroller&#8217;s attempt to get into the application area currently occupied by 8-bit microcontroller is even more possible now as NXP has just announced the\u00a0availability\u00a0of \u00a0ARM\u00ae Cortex-M0 microcontroller in SO20, TSSOP20, TSSOP28 &amp; DIP28 package (QFN16 package is also offered by other vendor). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[33,32],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-random","tag-arm","tag-cortex-m0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/1467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}