NEC Electronics announced four new intelligent power devices (IPDs), the µPD166017, µPD166019, µPD166020 and uPD166021. Each high-side IPD is applicable for automotive lighting and other critical vehicle loads. Designed for on-board electronic control units (ECUs) typically used in head- and fog-light applications, the new devices, or power ICs, have an embedded power MOSFET for switching and a control chip for protection features in a si...

NEC Electronics today announced 78 new 32-bit All Flash V850ES/Jx3 series microcontrollers (MCUs) with industry’s leading low power consumption, optimized pin counts and expanded functionality. The new MCUs are ideal for compact, battery-driven systems such as polyphase electricity meters and handheld terminals, connected devices such as USB2.0 PC peripherals and healthcare equipment, as well as industrial Ethernet systems.

NEC Electronics announced the availability of 14 new All Flash microcontrollers (MCUs), the 78K0/Dx2 product series with simple gages The new offering includes wide range of peripherals with either 80 pins or 64 pins and memory capacity ranging from 60 kilobytes (KB) down to 24 KB.

Extending its industry-leading embedded DRAM (eDRAM) technology to support designers of mobile phones, music players and other portable devices, NEC Electronics introduced two system on chip (SoC) solutions, uPD60800 and uPD60801.

NEC Electronics today announced the availability of new system-on-chips in the EMMA Mobile series. EMMA Mobile /EV is capable of processing high-definition content and 3D graphics with very low power consumption.

NEC Electronics annonce la disponibilité de douze nouveaux microcontrôleurs (MCU) All Flash™ 16 bits avec fonction USB (Universal Serial Bus) 2.0 intégrée et ultra-faible consommation. Cette nouvelle offre inclut six MCU 48 broches (78K0R/KC3-L) et six MCU 64 broches (78K0R/KE3-L). USB 2.0 est une norme d'interface utilisée pour les PC et les périphériques.

NEC Electronics annonce un circuit intégré ASSP (Application-Specific Standard Product) basé sur la technologie super-résolution, le uPD9281GC. Il supporte l'interface LVDS (Low-Voltage Differential Signaling), technologie largement adoptée dans les écrans plats, projecteurs pour TV numérique et moniteurs PC. Ce composant a été conçu pour diminuer l’écart impressionnant qui existe entre la génération précédente de résolution d'i...

NEC Electronics Europe annonce l'extension de son portefeuille de produits de la série NP avec de nouveaux transistors MOS de puissance (PowerMOSFET) basse tension qui présentent une très faible résistance à l'état passant (RDS(on)) et une charge de grille (QG) réduite. Ces nouveaux composants basés sur la technologie SuperJunction1 de NEC Electronics affichent un excellent « facteur de mérite » (FOM), ce qui permet de réduire les per...

NEC Electronics Europe annonce la sortie du kit de démonstration 78K0 Lighting Communications, grâce auquel les concepteurs de ballasts d'éclairage pourront adopter des protocoles de communication spécifiques à l’éclairage tels que DALI et DMX512. Ce kit inclut une carte contrôleur maître de communication qui fournit des interfaces de communication et gère les communications avec des unités esclaves d'éclairage via DMX512, DALI et mÃ...

NEC Electronics Europe annonce la sortie du kit de développement 78K0R/Lx3 — SENSE IT! Ce nouveau kit est constitué d’une carte complète de développement d'applications de contrôle d'afficheur LCD et est destiné à l'évaluation des microcontrôleurs 78K0R/Lx3 16 bits de NEC Electronics. Ces derniers intègrent un circuit pour le pilotage d'afficheur à cristaux liquides (LCD), tout particulièrement optimisé pour les appareils portabl...

NEC Electronics introduced its new camera engine 151 (CE151) system-on-chip (SoC), an image processing device for camera phones to provide clear and high-quality images comparable to digital-still cameras (DSCs).

NEC Electronics Europe announced the release of the 78K0/Kx2-L Save it! demonstration kit, supporting the recently launched 78K0/Kx2-L microcontroller (MCU) family that offers industry-leading power consumption and high levels of system integration. The new demonstration kit is designed to provide customers with a complete out-of-the-box experience for evaluation of low power consumption MCUs.

NEC Electronics and KWest today announced the availability of a turnkey design for portable consumer products based on NEC Electronics’ EMMA Mobile 1 system on chip (SoC). The turnkey design is the basis for devices that are linked to network routers and 3G networks to receive and play back data. At the same time, the turnkey design can be used to develop remote control systems with extensive functionality.

NEC Electronics announced the availability of twelve new 16-bit All Flash microcontrollers (MCUs) with built-in Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 function and industry-leading low power consumption. The new offering includes six 48-pin MCUs (78K0R/KC3-L) and six 64-pin MCUs (78K0R/KE3-L).

NEC Electronics announced its new super-resolution application-specific standard product (ASSP), the uPD9281GC. The ASSP addresses the dramatic divergence between yesterday’s image resolution and the high resolution of today’s audio-visual (AV) display systems, and supports the low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) interface, a technology extensively adopted in broad ranges of flat panel displays, projectors for digital TVs (DTVs) and PC ...

NEC Electronics Europe announced the release of its 78K0/Ix2 LED microcontroller (MCU) demonstration kit based on NEC Electronics’ 78K0/Ix2 lighting ASSP. The kit demonstrates how an efficient and intelligent LED driver design can be implemented without any additional driver ICs but only by a single flexible microcontroller capable of maintaining programmable constant current through multiple LED channels only using the integrated unique periph...

NEC Electronics Europe announced the expansion of its NP-Series product portfolio with the addition of new low-voltage Power MOSFET devices with ultra-low on-state resistance RDS(on) and low gate charge QG . Based on NEC Electronics’ SuperJunction1 technology, the new products feature an outstanding figure of merit (FOM) and thus minimize switching losses and increase system efficiency.

NEC Electronics Europe today announced the release of the 78K0 Lighting Communications demonstration kit, enabling lighting ballast designers to adopt lighting specific communications such as DALI and DMX512. The kit includes a master communication controller board which provides interfaces and supports communications to lighting slave devices by DMX512, DALI and even IrDA for remote lighting controls including dimming.

NEC Electronics Europe announced the release of the 78K0R/Lx3 — SENSE IT! development kit. SENSE IT! is a single-board, LCD control development platform designed specifically for the evaluation of NEC Electronics’ 16-bit 78K0R/Lx3 microcontroller. It includes an on-chip liquid crystal display (LCD) driver circuit, optimized especially for the fields of handheld healthcare diagnostic instruments such as blood glucose meter, building utility me...

NEC Electronics today announced the availability of eight new All Flash microcontrollers (MCUs) for safing microcontroller applications as well as low-end automotive systems, such as motor control and lighting control applications. The new offering includes three 16-pin MCUs (78K0/FY2-L), three 20-pin MCUs (78K0/FA2-L) and two 30-pin MCUs (78K0/FB2-L), featuring the industry’s leading low standby power consumption of 0.65 µA, and capable of re...