New 78K0/Kx2-L Save it! Demonstration Kit - Supporting the ultra low power consumption 8-bit microcontroller family
NEC Electronics Europe announces 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.
The 78K0/Kx2-L Save it! demonstration kit is an extension of NEC Electronics’
high-performance All Flash™ product line targeted for low power applications,
which supports on-board debugging and Flash programming. The board, which can be
connected to a PC via a USB connection, contains hardware elements such as
several push and DIP switches, switches for operation mode setting, 7-segment
LED as well as a phototransistor which acts as a luminance sensor, all there to
easily demonstrate simple I/O functions or peripheral operation. In addition,
the board has a connection facility to external user hardware for custom tests.
It also provides a user-friendly power consumption and frequency demonstration
GUI that allows the user to monitor the current internal oscillator frequency
and the operating current, as well as to check the luminance of the environment
thanks to the on-board phototransistor.
The 78K0/Kx2-L Save it! Demonstration kit is built on the ultra low power 48-pin
78K0/KC2-L 8-bit with 32 kilobytes (KB) of Flash and 1 KB of RAM, which offers
fully-implemented on-chip peripherals. One of its main features is a highly
accurate internal oscillator circuit with selectable clock speed of 4 megahertz
(MHz) or 8 MHz at better than +/-2% accuracy whilst completely removing the need
for an external clock circuit (up to 10 MHz external clock operation). It also
includes innovative new analog circuitry which has been implemented on-chip,
including accurate and high-speed A/D converters that work across the entire
supply voltage range, and on-chip operational amplifiers, working either as
single amplifiers that can be externally connected (using positive and negative
input pins) or as programmable gain amplifiers with a gain up to x32, making the
78K0/Kx2-L an ideal selection for sensor applications. 78K0/Kx2-L consumes just
220 microampere (uA) at 1 MHz operation, 0.58 uA in Stop mode with the Watchdog
running on the internal 30 kilohertz (KHz) oscillator, or just 0.15 uA for the
RTC.
For power-critical applications, further enhancements to increase battery
lifetime include flash programming down to 2.0V and a 1.8V to 5.5V supply
voltage, across the entire family without restriction. It also integrates fully
flexible 16-bit timer and serial interface array units as well as standard
peripherals such as a Real Time Clock, windowed Watchdog timer and other safety
functions, including Low-Voltage-Indicator and Power-On-Clear, completing
78K0/Kx2-L’s highly
integrated peripheral set. Embedded flash memory sizes start from just 4 KB,
with variants all the way up to 128 KB available across the 78K0 family,
providing a flexible and seamless upgrade path to more functionality if required.
The flexibility of the 78K0/Kx2-L Save it! demonstration kit combined with a
number of demonstration projects included in the kit enables developers to
rapidly evaluate the 78K0/Kx2-L MCU and the board from different aspects and
experiment with its peripherals.
The new 78K0/Kx2-L Save it! Demonstration Kit is available now.
NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH
201002210921.2.2010SoftwareNEC Electronics Corporation