When sports competitions were mentioned in the past, what came into people’s minds include the Olympics and the World Cup, but as gaming competitions started to trend in different countries in recent years, gaming-related industries have entered the sports industry as stars, and it is even included as an official competition in the 2022 Asian Games. Centered around gaming events, related hardware equipment industries were developed, including headphones, mouse, monitor, and other peripherals; this is the field that is making the most profit, with an annual output value of up to $1 billion U.S. dollars.

Nuvoton provides various design solutions that are most directly related to gaming, including mouse/keyboard/gamepad, etc.; it also provides up to 100 microcontroller products available for selection. This time we will introduce the M032 1.8~3.6V low-operating voltage microcontroller.

The M032 series has the Arm® Cortex-M0 core built-in, and the maximum processing speed can reach up to 72Mz; the series includes 16 products available for selecting, including 32~512KB Flash and 4~96KB SRAM.

M032 provides the following functions particularly for gaming products:

• Crystal-less full-speed USB function that can save circuit cost
• 24-channel 144MHz PWM that provides high precision and high driving LED capabilities
• 2 MSPS ADC that provides quick voltage/current sensing
• Multiple security protections (SPROM) for anti-theft
• Supports 1,000 per second rate of return for gaming, responding with no delays