The MEC170x is a family of keyboard and embedded controller designs customized for notebooks and industrial computing platforms. The family is a highly-configurable, mixed signal, advanced I/O controller architecture. Every device in the family incorporates a 32-bit ARM Cortex M4F Microcontroller core with a closely-coupled SRAM for code and data. A secure bootloader is used to download the custom firmware image from the system’s shared SPI Flash device, thereby allowing system designers to customize the device’s behavior.
The MEC170x products may be configured to communicate with the system host through one of three host interfaces: Intel® Low Pin Count (LPC), eSPI, or I2C. These products are designed to operate as either a stand-alone I/O device or as an EC Base Component of a split-architecture Advanced I/O Controller system which uses BC-Link communication protocol to access up to two BC bus companion components. The BC-Link protocol is peer-to-peer, providing communication between the MEC170x embedded controller and registers located in a companion device.
Family parts MEC1701H-C1-SZ MEC1701H-C1-SZ-TR MEC1701Q-C2-SZ MEC1701Q-C2-TN
Similar Products: MEC1704, MEC1705, MEC1418, MEC1428
Additional Features
ARM® Cortex®-M4F Processor Core
Complete ARM-Standard Debug Support
Comprehensive ARM-Standard Trace Support
Internal Memory: up to 480KB of SRAM
Enhanced Serial Peripheral Interface (eSPI) - Intel eSPI Specification Compliant
Supports LPC Bus frequencies of 19MHz to 33MHz
Four EC-based SMBus 2.0 Host Controllers
Five independent Hardware Driven PS/2 Ports
One Quad Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Controller
18 x 8 Interrupt Capable Multiplexed Keyboard Scan Matrix
Four Breathing/Blinking LED Interfaces
Multi-purpose AES Cryptographic Engine: Hardware support for ECB, CTR, CBC and OFB AES modes
Cryptographic Hash Engine: Support for SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512
Public Key Cryptographic Engine: Hardware support for RSA and Elliptic Curve public key algorithms andRSA keys length of 1024 or 2048 bits
True Random Number Generator: 1K bit FIFO
Monotonic Counter
The MEC170x is a family of keyboard and embedded controller designs customized for notebooks and industrial computing platforms. The family is a highly-configurable, mixed signal, advanced I/O controller architecture. Every device in the family incorporates a 32-bit ARM Cortex M4F Microcontroller core with a closely-coupled SRAM for code and data. A secure bootloader is used to download the custom firmware image from the system’s shared SPI Flash device, thereby allowing system designers to customize the device’s behavior.
The MEC170x products may be configured to communicate with the system host through one of three host interfaces: Intel® Low Pin Count (LPC), eSPI, or I2C. These products are designed to operate as either a stand-alone I/O device or as an EC Base Component of a split-architecture Advanced I/O Controller system which uses BC-Link communication protocol to access up to two BC bus companion components. The BC-Link protocol is peer-to-peer, providing communication between the MEC170x
embedded controller and registers located in a companion device.
Family parts
MEC1701H-C1-SZ
MEC1701H-C1-SZ-TR
MEC1701Q-C2-SZ
MEC1701Q-C2-TN
Similar Products: MEC1704, MEC1705, MEC1418, MEC1428
Additional Features
- ARM® Cortex®-M4F Processor Core
- Complete ARM-Standard Debug Support
- Comprehensive ARM-Standard Trace Support
- Internal Memory: up to 480KB of SRAM
- Enhanced Serial Peripheral Interface (eSPI) - Intel eSPI Specification Compliant
- Supports LPC Bus frequencies of 19MHz to 33MHz
- Four EC-based SMBus 2.0 Host Controllers
- Five independent Hardware Driven PS/2 Ports
- One Quad Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Controller
- 18 x 8 Interrupt Capable Multiplexed Keyboard Scan Matrix
- Four Breathing/Blinking LED Interfaces
- Multi-purpose AES Cryptographic Engine: Hardware support for ECB, CTR, CBC and OFB AES modes
- Cryptographic Hash Engine: Support for SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512
- Public Key Cryptographic Engine: Hardware support for RSA and Elliptic Curve public key algorithms andRSA keys length of 1024 or 2048 bits
- True Random Number Generator: 1K bit FIFO
- Monotonic Counter
