(iTers News) - “A few years ago, there was only one connected device in a household,” said the Miller Adair, general manager of MSP microcontrollers at Texas Instruments, “but today there are more than 30 including thermostats, smart TVs, and smoke detectors, and etc. Let’s say all these are connected to IoT system, and it is exposed to a malicious attack from hackers. This kind of issue is the most worried by the IoT developers today.”

That’s where the forte of TI’s recently-released SimpleLink MCU, or microcontroller platform comes in.

TI’s SimpleLink MCU platform is a sort of comprehensive MCU-based development platform to help develop a wide variety of short-range communication systems like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modules, coming built with hardware and software libraries as well as development tools.

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Especially, it provides a newly developed software design, or SDK kit that includes a set of standardized functional APIs and POSIX compliant APIs, allowing system developers to fully reuse a rich archive of software codes across their target applications regardless of operating system or kernels. The POSIC API makes the development environment very agnostic of whatever RTOS or kernels system developers would like to use.

The 100% code-compatibility and OS-agnostic feature help system developers to reduce design time as they do not have to spend time learning or get used to new development environment every time they work on new system development scheme.

What are more outstanding features are its ability to support 25 different security features, and a broad spectrum of connectivity protocols. TI said that the 25 security features prevent almost all kinds of attacks that can happen during data storage, run-time, and data transfer by blocking the possible vulnerable points. It can also support a variety of different wireless communications protocols like Wi-Fi, BLE, sub-one GHz, and 2.4 GHz.

Take for example TI’s CC3220 wireless MCU and CC3120 wireless network processor, both of which were fabricated around SimpleLink development platform.

The CC3220 and CC3120 are the same MCU family for wi-fi applications, each being used as an application processor and a Wi-Fi network processor, respectively. Coming embedded with two physically separate execution environment, the family features an 80MHz Cortex-M4, 256KB of RAM and 1MB of flash. Like all other SimpleLink product family, they offer rich embedded security features like secure storage, closing protection, secure boot and networking security, allowing system developers to help protect their systems on demand from intellectual property or IP and data theft or other risks without using an external secure MCU or element.

The family also can fit into power thrifty applications, as it consumes less power in what the company said is the industry’s power thriftiest. Built with the MCU family, for example, thermostats can go one year on two AA batteries, while motion cameras and medical tracks tags can run for 3 years and 5 years, respectively.

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