News Release from: NEC Electronics (Europe)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 19 July 2006
Flash 8bit MCUs come with more options
All-Flash 8bit microcontroller series gains 10 new products, including three low-pin-count MCUs in compact packages and seven low-cost MCUs without A/D convertors.
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NEC Electronics has extended its comprehensive 78K0S/Kx1+ all-Flash 8bit microcontroller (MCU) series with the addition of 10 new products, including three low-pin-count MCUs in compact packages and seven low-cost MCUs without A/D convertors. The wider selection will help slash costs for consumer electronics products, industrial products and a wide range of other MCU applications. Samples of the compact MCUs are available now, with samples of all models to be available in the next weeks.
The 10 new products include: three compact 78K0S/KU1+ MCUs, all in 10-pin 4.4 x 3.72mm packages, and all featuring on-chip Flash memory ranging from 1 to 4Kbyte; seven low-cost 78K0S/KB1+, 78K0S/KA1+ and 78K0S/KY1+ MCUs, all without A/D convertor functions and all featuring on-chip Flash memory ranging from 1 to 8Kbyte.
Pin counts range from 16 to 30.
With the addition of these new products, the NEC Electronics lineup of all-Flash MCU solutions now includes 189 products, with memory capacities ranging from 1 to 640Kbyte and pin counts ranging from 144 down to 10.
This provides seamless coverage of system requirements for every type of MCU application.
The new 78K0S/KU1+ MCUs feature compact, lightweight on-chip Flash modules, allowing system designers to reduce onboard footprints by about 30% compared with current models.
This will help reduce the size, weight, and cost of final products.
The new 78K0S/KB1+, 78K0S/KA1+ and 78K0S/KY1+ MCUs are provided without A/D convertor functions, allowing designers to hold costs down by selecting only the functions they actually need.
This makes it easier for manufacturers to develop cost-sensitive products such as vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, microwave ovens, electric tools, pumps, and other products consisting primarily of basic components such as switches, LEDs, heaters, and motors.
The new MCUs can also be used to replace electro-mechanical switches by low-cost semiconductor switching functions, for size and weight savings in switching control and data transfer mechanisms, plus finer grained on/off control, and higher reliability.
Sample shipments of 78K0S/KU1+ models has began, and sampling of the 78K0S/KB1+, 78K0S/KA1+ and 78K0S/KY1+ models will begin in the next few weeks.
Volume production began in late June for the 78K0S/KU1+ models and will begin in October for the 78K0S/KB1+, 78K0S/KA1+ and 78K0S/KY1+ models.
Total monthly production for all 10 products is expected to reach 500,000 units by March, 2007.
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