M8500 Series Applications
Motor Control
- Precise, dexterous control for robotic articulation and manipulation
- Greater efficiency enables smaller, lighter motors
- More performance with higher RPM motors
Digital Power Conversion
- Increased power conversion efficiency to reduce losses and improve energy utilization
- Execute advanced control algorithms for exceptional control capabilities
Battery Management
- Implement state-of-charge algorithms for greater efficiency in energy storage
- More accurate monitoring with state-of-health algorithms to increase reliability and longevity
Act: Real-Time Microcontroller
Real-Time Computing for Physical AI Platforms
Reliable event driven computing is enabled by the unique MIPS M8500 real-time multithreaded architecture. The M8500 is an easy-to-use general-purpose microcontroller with advanced efficiency and performance for sub -10μs control loop algorithms. The M8500 is a turnkey closed loop control solution with functional safety options and end-to-end software solution.
Industry Leading Real-Time Performance with General Purpose Programming Model
The MIPS Atlas M8500 MCU real-time compute subsystem is now available for customer evaluation via Atlas Explorer, with FPGA evaluation boards and silicon reference designs coming soon.- Motor Control: Smaller, lighter motors, decreasing cost and weight. Faster motors with more precise control of torque, speed, and position.
- Digital Power Conversion: Increased efficiency and power density including SiC and GaN wide band gap semiconductors.
- Battery Management: More precise control of State of Charge and State of Health for more accurate and safe battery state algorithms.
MIPS Drives Real-Time Intelligence into Physical AI Platforms
The new MIPS Atlas product suite delivers cutting-edge compute subsystems that empower autonomous edge solutions to sense, think and act with precision, driving innovation across the growing physical AI opportunity in industrial robotics and autonomous platform markets.
Moving the World with MIPS M8500 Real-Time Compute Solutions
The advent of physical AI promises to deliver autonomous platforms that are more able to operate in the changing world around them. Control loops drive the precise use of actuators and motors for smooth and efficient action. Learn how the MIPS M8500 offers a compute solution that solves the real-time MCU problem at the architecture level.
MIPS Unlocks the Potential of Physical AI with Safe, Scalable, Application-Driven Solutions
MIPS focuses on delivering real customer opportunities with safe, scalable physical AI. The portfolio, aligned into a Sense | Think | Act structure aims to deliver high-performance, reliable real-time compute as close as possible to where decisions and actions occur. In this paper, we discuss why and how this will be successful.
M8500: Ultra-Low Latency for Real-Time Computing
- RV32IMABFD_Zce base ISA
- Up to 32KiB I$ / 32KiB D$
- Up to 3MiB tightly coupled memories
- Functional safety up to ASIL-D / SIL3
- Real-Time Multithreading (RTMT)
- Trigonometric execution unit
