Toshiba Expands Its Lineup of Application Processors for Wearable Devices

Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced the latest addition to its TZ1000 series of ApP Lite™ application processors for wearable devices. The new device, "TZ1021MBG”, integrates a processor and Flash memory, without the Bluetooth^® Low Energy and accelerometer that Toshiba integrated into the previous "TZ1001MBG”. The result is a smaller, slimmer package that is ideal for wearable devices. Sample shipments will start within this month, with mass production scheduled to start in March 2015. "TZ1021MBG” will be showcased at "Electronica 2014” in Munich for the four days from November 11.

Toshiba's application processor "TZ1021MBG" for wearable devices (Photo: Business Wire)

There has been an explosion of interest in services that monitor activity levels and durations, as tools to help prevent lifestyle diseases, promote exercise and improve nutrition. It has increased demand for the wearable devices that these services depend on.

Toshiba’s new application processor integrates highly sensitive analog to digital converters (ADCs) that are well suited for measuring weak biomedical signals such as the pulse and the heart’s electrical activity (like an electro-cardiogram). The processor also offers an original low power consumption design, allowing use in wearable devices that require long battery run times.

Toshiba is also expanding its TZ1000 series by adding functionality to the basic "TZ1001MBG”: "TZ1031MBG” adds a gyroscope and "TZ1011MBG” adds a gyroscope and a magnetometer.

Electronica 2014
http://electronica.de/

Key Features

• Embedded ARM^® Cortex^®-M4F processor
  High performance ARM^® Cortex^®-M4F with DSP and floating point processing unit allows combination of data from multiple sensors, both internal and external, to improve accuracy (sensor fusion).
• Highly sensitive ADCs
  The new product integrates highly sensitive ADCs that can convert weak biomedical signals such as the pulse and the heart’s electrical activity from external sensors into digital data, and deliver them to the internal processor.

Applications
Wearable devices, such as activity monitors, smart watches, bracelet- and glasses-type devices

* Bluetooth^® is a registered trademark owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such mark by Toshiba is under license.
* ARM and Cortex are registered trademarks of ARM Limited (or its subsidiaries) in the EU and/or elsewhere.
* ApP Lite is a trademark of Toshiba Corporation.
* All other trademarks and trade names are properties of their respective owners.

For further information about this product, please visit:
http://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/product/assp/applite/tz1000.html

Customer Inquiries:
Logic LSI Sales & Marketing Group
Tel: +81-44-548-2110
http://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/contact.html

Information in this document, including product prices and specifications, content of services and contact information, is current on the date of the announcement but is subject to change without prior notice.

About Toshiba

Toshiba Corporation, a Fortune Global 500 company, channels world-class capabilities in advanced electronic and electrical product and systems into five strategic business domains: Energy & Infrastructure, Community Solutions, Healthcare Systems & Services, Electronic Devices & Components, and Lifestyles Products & Services. Guided by the principles of The Basic Commitment of the Toshiba Group, "Committed to People, Committed to the Future”, Toshiba promotes global operations towards securing "Growth Through Creativity and Innovation”, and is contributing to the achievement of a world in which people everywhere live in safe, secure and comfortable society.

Founded in Tokyo in 1875, today’s Toshiba is at the heart of a global network of over 590 consolidated companies employing over 200,000 people worldwide, with annual sales surpassing 6.5 trillion yen (US$63 billion).
To find out more about Toshiba, visit www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm

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