NEC Electronics Announces New Body Control MCUs for Automotive Applications

NEC Electronics Announces New Body Control MCUs for Automotive Applications

NEC Electronics today announced a new line of microcontrollers (MCUs) based on the company's 0.15 micron process technology with embedded flash memory optimized for automotive body and safety control applications viz., the Fx2 series of 8-bit MCUs and Fx3 series of 32-bit MCUs.

New MCUs Offer Up to 1 MB of Embedded Flash Memory for Advanced Body Applications

In recent years, there has been a rapid development in automotive body applications to enhance the safety and comfort of passengers. Systems including air conditioning, wiper controls, power windows, sliding doors, seat controls, smart keyless entry systems, anti-theft mechanisms and intelligent airbag systems have all increased in sophistication. Accordingly, customers are looking for electronic components that can support increased body application functionality.

The new product line-up is comprised of 29 devices: 13 based on the 78K0TM 8-bit CPU core and 16 devices based on the V850ESTM 32-bit CPU core. The devices are available in pin counts ranging from 44 to 176 pins, and memory configurations from 32 KB up to 1 MB Flash.