In the global microcontroller market, from the success of a design to enter full-scale production phase, an average of 18 to 24 months. In Luminary Micro, we all regions of the world "design success - production" of the process time framework for tracking and measurement, found China is the world's fastest-growing region into the production. Our customers from design to the success of entering the average production Inflatable Obstacles cost of less than nine months. My company is a quick reaction, positive and progressive, and constantly growing company, and we found the Chinese MCU market, the existence of these same qualities.
2. What do you think are the latest technology trends of 32-bit MCU? Which new techniques need the most attention?
Luminary Micro has been levelled 8-bit, 16bit and 32-bit MCU between obstacles. We can provide 32-bit performance, and price worthy and 8 bit and 16 bit solutions competing solutions. Our micro-controller allows developers to prevent the premise of the rise in the cost to upgrade its performance and design upgrades. In addition, the Luminary products are based on ARM's new 32 bit Cortex-M3 architecture. Before being tied up in the development of its own structure, can now enter the large and flexible ARM ecosystem. Inflatable Obstacles Cortex function with the ARM architecture, ranging from Cortex M3 @ 20 MHz has been $ 1 to 1 GHz Cortex A8, guarantee the compatibility of the instruction set, its price and performance in a wide range of variation, which is difficult to match elsewhere. Each company is the first to use the same instruction set and code base to meet their performance and cost in the whole scope of the changes needed.
Luminary Micro focused on the industrial market, energy, security and connectivity district. Luminary Micro has developed a different view of these things Division, in order to highlight our products distinctive characteristics, and to provide unique value.
Energy Division, including the power transformation and movement control, Luminary Micro can provide integrated motion control features, Inflatable Obstacles but these features generally only in expensive, dedicated devices that can be found. This includes up to six complete motion control PWM channels, including the channel dead zone generator, hardware fault conditions-processing module, as well as sensitive to achieve accurate positioning of the four-quadrant hardware encoder.
Safety Division includes access control and intrusion detection. Luminary Micro provide high-speed general-purpose I / O and fast interrupt response time can be used to develop the best residential and commercial security control.
In connection Division, Luminary Micro recently announced integration of the CAN and Ethernete components. LuminaryMicro is the only one integrated 10/100 BaseT MAC and PHY the ARM microcontroller, the controller also has automatic MDIX function. Our integrated Ethernet function makes the Stellaris microcontroller serial - Ethernet communication becomes simple.
3. China is already a large electronic product manufacturing country, yet it is still at the starting point in designing. In order to enable Chinese design houses to enter the international market sooner, which solutions from your company can meet the needs of engineers?
Luminary Micro has globalization customer base, these companies have shorter design cycles are long. In addition to providing reference designs to shorten the time-to-market customers, Luminary Micro also provides Stellaris peripheral driver library, it is complete, the license fees without the source code, which makes it more convenient for the preparation software. Stellaris peripheral driver library provides a C-language interface, to bring about the full Stellaris microcontroller peripheral control. Stellaris drive the use of peripherals, and even without reading the data sheet with the preparation of the whole application software. We are developing a new training for the customer, use our Stellaris peripheral driver library, in a short span of two weeks, let the smooth realization of training for the operation, and this task in the past few months to spend be completed. Our brushless DC motors, AC induction deposition and the stepper motor reference design, Fairchild has the power electronic devices with our award-winning Stellaris microcontrollers fully integrated. The reference design includes schematics, BOM, gerbers and software source code. Finally, Luminary Micro has just introduced two new communication reference design: for a serial - Ethernet connectivity, as well as an intelligent modules, it can provide QVGA touch screen LCD and Power
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4. From the perspective of a company that has achieved international success, what do you think is the biggest obstacle for Chinese design houses to succeed or enter international market?
I learned from the company's customers in China where that China's design engineers to create embedded applications can be excellent. I think that the Chinese design companies and the challenges faced by those around the world capable engineers the same: how your values and your customer communication. We use our own Design House Program to help those with the cooperation of China Luminary Micro Design Corporation, which the objective of the project is to help coordinate the ultimate customer for these customers design and product design company relationship. Luminary Micro Design for China brought about by the value of the company is in a wide range of applications using our MCU, making full use of our low-cost, high performance, high integration and simple C language capability to expand its transverse Application of space across multiple markets.
5, A great number of developers in China are interested in embedded sector.
Does you have any good plans or suggestions to help them learn your development technologies better?
Luminary Micro provides a comprehensive assessment package, which includes development tools and an evaluation version of the group code examples and application procedures. For example, Stellaris LM3S6965 MCU (with a single-cycle 256 K and 64 K Flash single-cycle SRAM, as well as fully integrated 10/100 Ethernet MAC and PHY) evaluation kit includes an embedded Web server applications of the two different examples, including the open source TCP / IP stack, all in source code form. These packages use extremely convenient, less than 10 minutes after the box can be configured and put into operation. In addition to the foregoing Stellaris peripheral driver library, these assessments suite (as well as the above-mentioned reference design package) provides a platform, and engineers can achieve in this platform in the new design and won critical MCU development experience.