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If you're looking for an exceedingly tiny ARM-based microcontroller (http://www.engadget.com/tag/microcontroller/), Freescale (http://www.engadget.com/tag/Freescale/) says it's just cooked up the world's smallest. Dubbed the Kinetis KL02, the piece of kit is 25 precent smaller than the previous record-holder and measures up at a 1.9 x 2.00 x 0.56 millimeters. Having trouble visualizing exactly how small that is? Just take a gander at the photo above. A 48 MHz ARM Cortex-M0+ (http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/13/arm-cortex-ultra-low-power-32-bit-processor/) processor has made it onto the wafer-level chip-scale package and it's paired with 32KB of flash memory and 4KB of RAM. The outfit reckons it'll be a good match for 'internet of things' (http://www.engadget.com/tag/internetofthings/) devices that are tight on space, and says it beats its older L Series kin (http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/20/kinetis-l-series-mcus-use-arm-cortex/) in power efficiency. Manufacturer sampling for the KL02 is slated for March, while wide availability is penciled in for July, and it'll set buyers back 75 cents a piece when purchased in 100,000-unit loads. Hit the jump for more details in the press release.
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Source: Freescale (http://media.freescale.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=196520&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1789231&highlight=)
Via: Engadget