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NEC Electronics Europe Announces 78K0R – SENSE IT! Development Kit
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 meters and heating controls, and HMI (human machine interface) for industrial automation and motor drives.
The The new SENSE IT! kit includes the 128-pin 78K0R/LH3 device with 128KB of Flash and 7KB of RAM. Several peripheral functions are also mounted on the board including a 400 segment LCD, thermometer, light meter, voltage meter, buzzer, 5-way mini joystick, DIP switches, a prototyping area and audio output for sound/voice playback using ADPCM. The kit also contains 16KB code limited version of the IAR Embedded Workbench software development tool and several demonstration programs. The starter kit can be powered using the on-board USB port, which also can be utilized to load the demonstration programs. In addition the on-board interface for the MINICUBE2 offers low cost support for source code debugging and emulation through dedicated hardware and the IAR environment.
SENSE IT! provides everything development engineers need to quickly get started with product evaluation and design of state-of-the-art low power LCD applications.