TI has re-architected embedded control with the dual core Concerto™ MCU series that provides both control and connectivity without compromise. There are three main facets to the Concerto MCU series that will be the focus of this presentation, because they enable developers to do more for green technologies. The first point is that developers will be able to efficiently partition their system. Over the last fifteen years, the C2000™ team has regularly increased the optimization of the MCUs by adding accelerators, for instance, to provide tailored processing capabilities to the system. TI also added analog integration and other advanced control oriented peripherals options such as the high resolution pulse width modulator. Where some semiconductor companies are touting DSP extensions to a microcontroller core for real time control and digital signal control, C2000 started with a DSP core to ensure that the high performance that is fundamental to the execution of real time control algorithms is there. With C2000’s Concerto MCUs, a Cortex™-M3 core has been added as the base of a host communication subsystem with advanced connectivity peripherals such as Ethernet, USB On The Go, dual CAN, and multiple serial communication ports. Each subsystem is clearly partitioned so that developers can reduce design complexity and get to market faster. The second key advantage of the Concerto series is that it allows customers to improve safety and security of their design, which is becoming increasingly more important for green applications – for both user safety and IP protection reasons. Finally, Concerto MCUs enable developers to easily scale their designs because it is software compatible with TI’s other C2000 MCUs and also to leverage the modular controlCARD system for compatibility with application kits. This also means that TI will provide the device and application libraries that are available for other C2000 MCUs.