One of the important factors when picking a microcontroller for industrial automation applications is energy efficiency. The industrial 4-20 mA wired loop solutions maintain a maximum current budget of 3.5 mA. The low-power performance of the MSP microcontrollers provides a larger margin for sensor solutions. MSP single-chip solutions based on smart integrated analog provide low system cost. Texas Instruments also offers a number of solutions supported by MSP microcontrollers around 4-20 mA, IO-Link, and HART that reduces time to market and makes development cycles more efficient.