NEC Electronics Europe Announces New Automotive Gateway Controller

NEC Electronics Europe today announced a new microcontroller for automotive body applications. The V850E/CAG4-M is a member of NEC Electronics’ powerful 32-bit RISC microcontroller family with embedded FlexRay® interface. Offering high performance, large memory and fully-fledged communication interfaces, it is especially suited for high-end gateway and other body applications.

The V850E/CAG4-M extends the popular V850 32-bit microcontroller family into the high-performance range, with the FlexRay and MediaLB™ interfaces supporting emerging standards for communication within automotive applications.

Capable of controlling up to 6 CAN interfaces, the V850E/CAG4-M is optimized for automotive body applications like gateways. The device’s embedded MediaLB™ interface provides connectivity to the MOST® world, offering very high data throughput, especially for asynchronous data transfer. Dedicated motor control, real-time clock features and power-saving modes come into their own in body applications, as does the timer structure with various input capture and PWM output channels.

The Multi-LIN master macro can connect all 6 LIN channels very efficiently, with minimum CPU interaction. The FPU and 80 MHz RISC performance also make the V850E/CAG4-M an attractive proposition for new fields such as diagnostics and high-end server concepts.

For more information about NEC Electronics’ automotive microcontrollers visit www.eu.necel.com/automotive.

Availability
V850E/CAG4-M samples are scheduled for January 2008, with volume production due to commence early in 2009.

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FlexRay® is a trademark of DaimlerChrysler AG. MediaLB is a trademark of Standard Microsystems Corporation. MOST is a registered trademark of Standard Microsystems Corporation.All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.