NEC Electronics Announces L_Line MCUs for On-Chip LCD Driver and Consumer Applications

NEC Electronics Corp. (TSE: 6723), a leading semiconductor solutions provider today announced the latest addition to its line of industry-leading 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) products, the L_Line (78K0/Lx2) series of MCUs.  The L_Line MCU series features a broad range of 36 product configurations, with many memory, peripheral and packaging options.  L_Line also incorporates an integrated LCD display driver/controller and in-application self-programming flash capability. Theses are features that support the requirements of the consumer appliance, home health care, HVAC, sprinkler and security system applications.

“Semiconductors continue to drive down into the most common consumer applications, replacing traditional analog or mechanical systems with digital electronics,” said Shigenobu Ishikawa, general manager, multipurpose microcomputer systems division, 4th Systems operations unit, NEC Electronics Corporation.  “Accordingly, NEC Electronics offers a range of low-cost, high-performance 8-bit microcontrollers to serve this growing market.  We augment our existing offering with today’s announcement of the 78K0/Lx2 series of MCUs, a high-performance yet low cost family of products that offer various features and peripherals that makes the series ideally suited for consumer applications.”

The MCUs in the L_Line feature an integrated LCD display driver/controller for powering displays with up to 160 segments.  Integrating the display driver onto the controller reduces a system’s component count and power consumption.  The MCUs are available in configurations supporting up to 128KB of flash memory and up to 7KB of RAM.  The MCUs’ flash memory allows for in-application self-programming, enabling easy rewrite program capabilities. The L_Line MCUs provide a fast wake-up time, typically only 5 microseconds from stand-by mode to full-speed operation.  The series also supports a variety of peripherals designed to provide safe operation of products using these MCUs, including power-on-reset, low-voltage indicators and POC. The MCUs in the L_Line also feature a wide range of operating voltages, from 1.8V to 5.5V.

L_Line employs NEC Electronics’ advanced 0.15-micron process technology, and SuperFlash® technology licensed from Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. (SST).

Availability
Samples of L_Line MCUs will be available in September, with mass production scheduled to begin in January 2006. Availability is subject to change.

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