Jennifer Hin, director of Texas Instruments' semiconductor marketing and application embedded system, believes that the characteristics of the Internet of things make the customization needs of MCUs highly valued, and the time and human resources devoted to R & D are a big cost, which may not be directly reflected in On the bill of materials, however, the capital invested is sometimes higher than the cost of the wafer purchase.
In the era of Internet of Things, wired communication has become an important technology that MCUs mainly must import, however, there are different connection requirements in industrial automation, building automation, smart home, etc. Taking smart home as an example, In an apartment building, Wi-Fi and BLE technology can meet most application needs, but in a smart factory context, the required connection distance may have to be met using ZigBee Mesh technology. If we consider the data to be transmitted The amount of data, many more considerations.
Jennifer CHAN believes that MCU to achieve cost-effective, in addition to hardware, software itself cost considerations, reduce the R & D investment in resources is another way to improve cost-effective thinking.With the Internet of Things scenarios need to connect the MCU function, for example, Creating a platform that creates more reusable value and delivering customized MCU products faster is also one way to create high-CP-value products.