War of the Worlds: 16- and 32-Bit MCUs Invade ASIC Applications: Industry Report

War of the Worlds: 16- and 32-Bit MCUs Invade ASIC Applications

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: In-Stat
Published: October 2005
Product Code: R97-2131

Description

The upsurge in microcontroller business during 2004 and the positive first numbers being reported by the SIA for 2005 suggest that the industry may see a possible upside of 6% year-to-year vs. 2004. Sales in 2004 were even more generous with the high-end microcontrollers of 16-bits and higher showing an improvement in revenue of approximately 53.5% compared with the year before.

In-Stat’s present microcontroller forecast covers almost all individual, application-level, end-use system product forecasts providing In-Stat’s estimate of microcontroller use in these systems. In some of these systems the microcontroller competes with DSP products, ASICs, ASSP, and for the lower volume systems, with FPGAs.

In-Stat believes that the next five years will be marked by the penetration of leading embedded processors and DSP into the high-bit-width microcontroller markets. ARC, ARM and MIPS for example, are in various stages of penetration into applications such as stand-alone flash memory (ARC), MCU chips (ARM) and microcontrollers aimed at smart cards (MIPS). Analog Devices, CEVA, Freescale, Infineon, StarCore, Texas Instruments, and others have pursued DSP architectures that can also function in control workloads.

This report provides a bit-wise MCU forecast and then provides a market overview, detailed data by market segment, and a forecast for over 80 applications for both 16-bit and 32-bit MCUs.

Table of Contents

Table
of Contents

Executive Summary

Methodology
- Bit-Width Transitions
- Architecture
  Transitions

Nomenclature
- Microcontroller
  (MCU) Categories

Possible Sources
of Confusion

Overview

The Past
- MCU Architecture
  and Peripheral Features
  - Part Two
    of a Brief Backgrounder for Business Professionals
- Are Software
  Tools Keeping Up?

The Future

Forecast Background

The Bit-Wise
MCU Forecast
- The Applications

2004-2009: 16-Bit
Microcontrollers
- Market Overview
- Detailed Data
  by Market Segment
- Application
  Details

2004-2009: 32-Bit
Microcontrollers
- Market Overview
- Detailed Data
  by Market Segment
- Application
  Details

Acknowledgement

List
of Tables

Table 1. 2004-2009
All-Bit Microcontrollers, History and Forecast

Table 2. 2004-2009
16- and 32-Bit Microcontrollers, History and Forecast

Table 3. Competing
Proprietary-Core MCUs and IP Cores That Can Be Used in MCU Designs

Table 4. 2004-2009
All-Bit Microcontrollers, History and Forecast

Table 5. All-Bit
MCU Worldwide Revenue (US$K) by Market Segments

Table 6. 2004-2009:
16- and 32-Bit Microcontrollers, History and Forecast; Revenue, Shipments
and ASP

Table 7. 16-and
32-Bit MCU Worldwide Revenue (US$K) Status and Forecast 2004-2009

Table 8. 2004-2009
MCU K Units WW Shipments by Market Segment Status and Forecast

Table 9. 2004-2009
16-Bit MCU WW Sales (US$K and K Units) History and Forecast

Table 10. 2004-2009
16-Bit MCU Revenue (US$K) by Market Segment

Table 11. 2004-2009
16-Bit MCU Unit Shipments (K) by Market Segment

Table 12. 2004-2009
16-Bit MCU ASP (US$) by Market Segment

Table 13. 2004-2009
16-Bit MCU K Unit Shipments by Application

Table 14. 2004-2009
32-Bit MCU WW Sales (US$K and K Units) History and Forecast

Table 15. 2004-2009
32-Bit MCU Revenue (US$K) by Market Segment

Table 16. 2004-2009
32-Bit MCU Unit Shipments (K) by Market Segment

Table 17. 2004-2009
8-Bit MCU ASP (US$) by Market Segment

Table 18. 2004-2009
32-Bit MCU K Unit Shipments by Application

List
of Figures

Figure 1. MCU Categories
According to WSTS/SIA

Figure 2. Philips
ARM-Base Core is Employed in the Company's LPC213x Family of Microcontrollers

Figure 3. NEC's
Roadmap for V850 Family Microcontrollers Includes 200MHz 32-Bit MCUs

Figure 4. NEC's
V850 Employs Harvard Architecture to Enhance Performance by Separating
Instructions and Data

Figure 5. Fujitsu's
Roadmap Takes the FR Family Into Low Power and High Performance

Figure 6. ST's
STR720 Series Employs an ARM720T Core

Figure 7. Conceptual
Block Diagram of the Microcontroller Family Based on ColdFire

Figure 8. Cortex-M3Block
Diagram

Figure 9. TI's
Ultra-Low Power 16-Bit MSP430F20xx Family Block Diagram

Figure 10. Changes
in All-Bit Segment Revenue Market Shares 2004 vs. 2009 (%)

Figure 11. All-Bit
MCU Worldwide Revenue (US$K) by Market Segments

Figure 12. Changes
in 16- and 32-Bit Segment Revenue Market Shares 2004 vs. 2009 (%)

Figure 13. 16-and
32-Bit MCU Worldwide Revenue (US$K) Status and Forecast 2004-2009

Figure 14. 2004-2009
MCU K Units WW Shipments by Market Segment Status and Forecast

Figure 15. 2004-2009
16-Bit MCU WW Sales (US$K and K Units) History and Forecast

Figure 16. 2004-2009
32-Bit MCU WW Sales (US$K and K Units) History and Forecast

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