Texas Instruments unveiled the MSPM0C1104 at embedded world 2025 as "the world's smallest MCU." Alex Grudzinski (Product Marketing Engineer, TI) brings us up to speed and shares details.
Texas Instruments unveiled the MSPM0C1104 at embedded world 2025 as "the world's smallest MCU." Alex Grudzinski (Product Marketing Engineer, TI) brings us up to speed and shares details.
The TI MSPM0C1104
At embedded world 2025, Elektor’s Brian Tristam Williams visited the Texas Instruments (TI) booth to explore the MSPM0C1104, which is the "world’s smallest microcontroller." Alex Grudzinski from TI introduced the new chip, which measures just 1.38 mm² — making it 38% smaller than any other microcontroller currently available. Watch the interview.
MSPM0C1104 Size and Features
Despite its ultra-compact size, the MSPM0C1104 microcontroller featured 16 KB of flash memory, 1 KB of SRAM, a 12-bit ADC with up to three channels, six GPIOs, three timers (including one with dead-band control), and multiple serial communication interfaces, including UART, SPI, and I²C.
The groundbreaking MCU quickly attracted interest from manufacturers in personal electronics, medical devices, and industrial automation, where minimizing board space is crucial. TI also catered to hobbyists and developers by offering a dedicated LaunchPad development board (LP-MSPM0C11104), providing an accessible platform to experiment with the technology.
"Our team has worked really hard to get a good market analysis about what features are truly needed to be able to develop and design a part like this in order to fit into those size constrainted applications," Grudzinski explained to Williams.
TI's MSPM0C1104
Features:
16 KB of memory
12-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with three channels
Six general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pins
Compatibility with standard communication interfaces: Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART), Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), and Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C)
High-speed, accurate analog components integrated into the world's smallest MCU
Enables engineers to maintain computing performance without increasing board size
