MCUs for Home Appliance applications

• ARM at Embedded World 2011 with Toshiba Introducing Toshiba's new multi-touch solution for resistive screens.
• Toshiba Cortex-M3 32bit ARM MCU for Motor Control and Multi-touch resistive systems A discussion and demonstration of Toshiba's new microcontroller and multi-touch technology.  Dedicated to Motor Control applications, specifically variable speed motors, the TMPM370 offers a firmware based solution through it's on board vector engine and programmable motor drive technology. Toshiba's new multi-touch solution is ideal for industrial, medical or home appliance applications allowing a resistive screen to be used with a stylus or gloved hand.
• Interview by All-Electronics at Embedded World 2011 Introducing the new TMPM370 Cortex M3 Microcontroller from Toshiba.

Home Appliance Solutions From Toshiba

The term "inverter" is already becoming widely known as one of the important key words of product planning and sales of home appliances such as washing machines.  Inverter home appliances are rapidly being accepted in the market, from the perspective of environmental protection in the form of being "energy-saving" and offering "quiet running".

From microcontrollers with dedicated motor drive units on chip to integrated and intelligent IGBT modules, the latest semiconductor technologies from Toshiba help designers to meet demands for increasingly sophisticated inverter-based motor control applications.

Toshiba's Home Appliance solutions offer:-

• I/O Expander
• Motor Control ASSPs
• MCU Motor Control
• Power Products
• Photocouplers
• Pre-Drivers
• For information on Magnetrons for Home Appliances please visit the Toshiba Hokuto Electronics Corporation website.