TTE32 high-reliability microcontrollers
Our TTE32 family of high-reliability processor cores provides a flexible and cost-effective foundation for many processor and microcontroller designs.
For low-volume products, you can work with a “soft” microcontroller and a growing range of FPGA targets: where required (usually for high-volume applications), we can also provide ASIC implementations of all TTE®32 designs.
Whatever implementation route you choose, this family is fully integrated with our RapidiTTy® development tools. When using FPGA targets, your microcontroller design can be fully configured using the development tools, without writing any FPGA code: for example, you can create a microcontroller with (say) 5 UARTs with a few clicks of a mouse.
Example microcontroller design (TTE32-SM3)
As an example of the capabilities of TTE32 microcontrollers, the TTE32-SM3 Microcontroller targets the popular Altera DE2-70 development board.
In this configuration, the TTE32-SM3 Microcontroller, the processor can operate at a core frequency of up to 25 MHz, and has access to 64 kB of code memory and 32 kB of data memory.
Designed for time-triggered applications
The TTE32-SM3 microcontroller can be used to implement a wide range of embedded systems, but this platform is particularly well suited to the creation of embedded systems with a time-triggered (TT) architecture.
The TTE32-SM3 offers the following key benefits to the developers of embedded systems:
- Highly predictable timing behaviour from the TTE32 core;
- A dedicated timer for the generation of system “Ticks”;
- With the exception of the Tick timer, no other interrupt sources are enabled, thereby enforcing the “one interrupt per microcontroller” design rule and ensuring that event-triggered design features cannot be introduced inadvertently at the design phase or during subsequent product upgrades or maintenance;
- An advanced watchdog timer design for use with TT architectures.
- A fully-supported target in RapidiTTy™ MCU.
- Using RapidiTTy FPGA and RapidiTTy Pro the peripheral set of the TTE32-SM3 can be configured very quickly to match your precise hardware requirements (without writing any VHDL code).
- Available with both Development and Production licences.
- Cost-effective licensing model for both small product runs and large-scale production.
Datasheet and programming guide
Download a TTE32-SM3 datasheet and programming guide.
Evaluating TTE32 high-reliability microcontrollers
RapidiTTy Lite v2.0 is a free evaluation product. It includes a version of the TTE32-SM3 microcontroller.