供应商如何帮助设计人员实现嵌入式应用的完整解决方案

　　供应商如何帮助设计人员实现嵌入式应用的完整解决方案

　　年前，大多数芯片制造商设计的产品，可以被描述为单功能设备。在嵌入式世界中，MCU是设计空间的中心，但大量的其他设备需要创建一个系统。设计师集成在PC板在今天将被认为是一个漫长的设计周期。

　　硅供应商很快认识到获取系统的专业知识，以增加他们的产品价值的价值。一些已经拥有核心能力的模拟和射频，他们可以带来的表。结果：系统级芯片（SoC）的概念–变化显著，系统设计师的关系，他现在有更多的功能和性能在他们的指尖。

　　的能力，利用系统级的专业知识，以及具有模拟和RF产品知识，提供了明显的优势时，集成外围设备的MCU芯片。然而，芯片制造商，另一面，是创造一个发展的生态系统来支持这些复杂的MCU的挑战。

　　For MCU vendor selection， three top-level considerations for choosing an MCU supplier are：

　　The performance and level of integration on the MCU itself

　　The quality of development software

　　The extent to which the vendor is committed to extending its technologies to support system-level innovation. In other words， whether the vendor is exploring the “frontiers of embedded.”

　　Thanks in part to the breadth of its broad product portfolio， Texas Instruments offers industrial-system designers a family of highly sophisticated MCU-based motor-control solutions. STMicroelectronics has developed leading-edge product offerings for consumer electronics; and Microchip has invested heavily in a unified development environment that it considers unique.

　　Products from these three companies provide good examples of how some companies have positioned themselves to provide complete solutions on the frontiers of embedded processing.