“GigaDevice (stock code 603986), the leading semiconductor device supplier in the industry, announced today that its product marketing director Mr. Jin Guangyi was invited to participate in the , Gave an opening speech on the topic of “wide layout driving MCU innovation”.
"The industry’s leading semiconductor device supplier GigaDevice (stock code 603986) announced today that its product marketing director, Mr. Jin Guangyi, was invited to participate in the "Global MCU Ecological Development Conference" and "Motor Drive and Control Forum". The opening speech was given on the topic of “wide layout driving MCU innovation”. Dozens of technology and application experts in the MCU industry, as well as upstream and downstream companies in the MCU industry chain gathered at the conference site to discuss the latest micro-control processor technology, edge AI, emerging applications and ecological development and other hot topics.
As a leader in China’s MCU market, Mr. Jin Guangyi, on behalf of Zhaoyi Innovations, gave a speech at the Global MCU Ecological Development Conference to introduce the company’s achievements in recent years, the market direction of new products in the future, and to the users and ecosystems present. Partners convey the value concept of the industry. The conference site was crowded with people, and the various exhibits of Zhaoyi's innovation also attracted many participants to stop and discuss.
Zhaoyi Innovation GD32 MCU is the largest Arm? MCU product family in China, and the first Arm? Cortex?-M3/M4/M23/M33 MCU product series in China, and it is the first to launch a RISC-V core universal 32-bit in the world MCU product series.
Zhaoyi Innovation has ranked first among local MCU manufacturers in China's 32-bit MCU market for five consecutive years, with an annual shipment of more than 200 million units and a cumulative service of more than 20,000 customers. Continue to establish MCU industry milestones with the comprehensive strength of "product + ecology" and continue to lead the pace of industry development.
The GD32 MCU product family currently has 28 series and more than 370 models, covering the high, middle and low-end markets in all directions, covering entry-level, mainstream and high-performance development and application requirements. The MCU cores range from M3/M4 to the latest M23/M33 and RISC. -V, everything is available. It also provides dedicated MCU products for segmented vertical markets, including dedicated series such as fingerprint recognition, printers, and optical modules.
The design process of GD32 is also evolving and continues to lead the industry: the GD32F103 series launched in 2013 adopts 110nm process; the GD32F450 series launched in 2016 adopts 55nm process; the GD32E503 series launched in 2020 adopts 40nm process; this year's ultra-high performance MCU 22nm process has been adopted for research and development.
At the conference site, Mr. Jin Guangyi, Director of Zhaoyi Innovative Product Marketing, put forward the continuous MCU value proposition of GD32, which is "user-centered-from users to users". GD32 defines products together with users, and uses the resources of multiple production lines to open up new capacity and guarantee delivery to serve users. Continue to tap market potential in the three dimensions of users, products and production capacity. That is, with a wide range of product and program application coverage, stable and reliable quality, as well as multi-production line resource allocation and flexible deployment, stable supply guarantee, based on China and actively deploy a global service network. Zhaoyi Innovation will continue to fully support strategic customers and serve the masses of users with a thriving ecosystem.
Mr. Jin introduced that GD32 MCU will launch a series of market-leading new products in the second half of 2021:
l GD32W515 series Wi-Fi MCU, based on Cortex?-M33 core and supporting TrustZone? security function, clocked at up to 180MHz, provides large-capacity on-chip Flash flash memory and SRAM cache, and has two package types: QFN56 and QFN36. The new product integrates excellent radio frequency performance and anti-interference ability, rich I/O interface, industrial-grade working temperature, continues the software and hardware compatibility of the GD32 MCU product family, and supports code reuse. At present, this series of Wi-Fi MCUs has obtained Wi-Fi Alliance authorization and certification, and passed the PSA level 1 certification of the Arm platform security architecture, helping end users to improve the security and reliability of their devices.
l GD32L233 系列低功耗MCU, 基于Cortex?-M23内核，着眼于主流型低功耗开发需求，处理器频率最高64MHz，内置闪存最大支持256KB，提供了10个产品型号和4种封装选择，支持多种低功耗模式，优化的停机/待机电流和恢复时间，主打电池供电场合以及对功耗敏感的市场应用。
l Zhaoyi’s innovative new GD30 PMU product line has successively launched multiple power management chips, which can be widely used in TWS headset charging bins, motor drives, new energy battery charging and discharging management, and wireless communication facilities and equipment. Currently, it provides 4 A selection of product lines. GD30 PMU, as a product extension of the key vertical market that GD32 MCU has been deeply cultivated for many years and newly tapped, can be used together to provide customers with one-stop solutions.
Mr. Jin said that Zhaoyi Innovation is constantly paying attention to changes in market demand. In the industrial field, market demand expands to algorithms and pan-peripheries, continues to support high-precision industrial control and high-performance data processing, provides overall solutions for motor control (MCU+drive+signal chain), enhances digital power and energy management, and makes a comprehensive layout Various fields of infrastructure.
The consumer electronics market is expanding towards connectivity and intelligence, so GD32 supports various types of wired and wireless connections, as well as graphical application interfaces and displays, to realize smart home appliances, smart home and AI application innovation, and provide a variety of solutions and Sensor fusion.
In the automotive electronics market, there is a simultaneous expansion in the field of front and rear installation. For automotive front-mounted products, new automotive-grade MCU products will be launched for the needs of body electronics applications; automotive rear-mounted products include in-vehicle audio-visual, navigation, tracking and diagnostic peripheral applications; and all support automotive-grade MCU certification and safety standard certification.
In the future, the GD32 product family will continue to evolve and enrich the positioning and connotation of the "MCU department store", and it will deepen in multiple subdivisions such as higher performance, lower power consumption, more types of cores, radio frequency, car-level, security, etc. Expansion will continue to strengthen the synergy of signal chain processing, analog peripherals, sensors and various memories, and strive to create a comprehensive solution for multi-product linkage of Zhaoyi Innovation.
GD32 also provides users with a choice of differentiated MCU products other than the Arm core. In 2019, it launched the world's first RISC-V core GD32VF103 series of general-purpose MCUs. The architecture of the RISC-V open source instruction set can meet the needs of differentiated customers in some market segments.
In the two years since the launch of RISC-V MCU, GD32 MCU has successively launched a complete platform-based development tool including software and hardware with mainstream tool manufacturers in the industry such as SEGGER in Germany and IAR Systems in Sweden. Connect to various cloud services such as Tencent Cloud, oneNET, AWS, Microsoft Azure, etc. to support edge computing. In 2020, the Embedded World International Exhibition held in Nuremberg, Germany won the only best hardware product award of the year. Facing new application requirements and historical development opportunities, using the RISC-V core as the center to build a new open source industry ecology, Chinese MCUs represented by GD32 have embarked on a path of global development and innovation worth exploring.
GD32 cooperates with global partners to launch a variety of integrated development environment IDE, development kit EVB, graphical interface GUI, security components, embedded AI, operating system and cloud connection solutions. The new technology website GD32MCU.com provides multiple series of video tutorials and short films that can be arbitrarily on-demand for online learning, and product manuals and software and hardware materials can also be downloaded at any time. Continue to build and enrich the MCU development ecology.
Mr. Jin focused on the multi-cycle and full coverage of the GD32 MCU development talent training plan, from youth science to higher education in an all-round way, providing a fertile ground for learning and growth for the new generation of engineers. Zhaoyi's university plans include joint laboratory construction, teaching reform, teacher training, and in-depth sponsorship and participation in various electronic design competitions across the country. This year, the final of the 16th Electronic Research Competition sponsored by Zhaoyi Innovation has been successfully concluded. A total of 5,120 teams across the country have successfully registered for the competition, with nearly 30,000 teachers and students participating, and 254 participating universities, a year-on-year increase of 34%. Create a new high. Zhaoyi Innovation also sponsored participation in the "2021 International Autonomous Intelligent Robot Competition", "China Automotive Chip Application Innovation Rally" and "2021 China Chip Application Innovation Design Competition", continuing to use the "competition" as an opportunity to build a bridge between talent and industry .
The 2021 Global MCU Ecological Development Conference ended with the theme of the roundtable forum "How MCU products and ecology meet the needs of emerging IoT applications". Mr. Jin said that the development cycle of emerging IoT smart devices is relatively short. In order to seize the opportunities and opportunities in time, the ease of use and ecological perfection of MCU products are very important. In order to launch products and quickly occupy the market, end users are also more sensitive to costs. GD32 MCU provides excellent cost performance, and supports customers to quickly switch between different products and development platforms, thereby accelerating the mass production of IoT projects.
Mr. Jin said that Zhaoyi Innovation, as a leader in China's MCU market, has been committed to the iterative evolution of product technology and optimizing the upstream supply chain. With the advantage of multi-production line resources, it will further open up new production capacity while stabilizing the supply, and provide delivery guarantees for the rapidly growing intelligent market demand for 5G communications, new energy and energy storage, industrial control and automotive applications. It will also continue to advance the university plan and improve the ecosystem, continue to cultivate partners, train target users, and empower developers.
At the "Motor Drive and Control Forum" held at the same time, Mr. Chen Qi, Product Manager of Zhaoyi Innovation, also shared the theme of "GD32 MCU provides multi-dimensional solutions for motor control".
The new hardware trigonometric operation unit (TMU) integrated in the GD32E5 series of MCUs can be described as the "artifact" of motor control applications. It has high-efficiency processing capabilities for trigonometric, arctangent, square root, common logarithmic operations, and can simultaneously control 2 One BLDC/PMSM motor supports a variety of sensorless algorithms, becoming the first choice for motor applications with "strong computing power requirements".
Zhaoyi Innovation is also continuing to expand more products of the motor control system. Take GD30DRV8306 as an example. This is a three-phase MOSFET driver IC with built-in Charge pump. It has an operating voltage range of 4.5V-30V and a peak source current of 1.2A. With a gate drive current of 1A leakage current, the innovative product combination of GD32 series MCU has high integration (three-phase drive + DC/DC controller + Charge pump), easy to use (motor control reference design + development board code), etc. Significant advantages, can achieve lower BOM cost, higher performance, smaller PCB area, easier to produce design. Motor control applications based on GD32 MCU have been put into commercial use on various terminals such as service robots, smart home appliances, refrigeration compressors, balance vehicles, power tools, industrial servo motors, etc., enabling innovation in many industries.
Chen Qi said that GD32 MCU supports a rich mainstream development environment, emulators and burners, covering a complete tool chain and development ecology from chips to software SDKs, development kits, etc., and is committed to providing developers and customers with comprehensive services and Support and continuously promote the pace of industrial upgrading. It also reflects the GD32 MCU value proposition delivered by this MCU Ecological Development Conference. Zhaoyi Innovation has always been user-centric—from users to users.