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Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Freescale Semiconductor | Subject: S12XS family
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 October 2006
MCU is cost-effective for automotive
16bit microcontroller family is optimised for a broad range of cost-sensitive automotive body electronics applications.
Addressing customer needs for design flexibility and platform compatibility, Freescale Semiconductor has unveiled a 16bit microcontroller (MCU) family optimised for a broad range of cost-sensitive automotive body electronics applications The family includes six devices designed to give customers flexibility in choosing different memory, package and cost options to accommodate their application requirements
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The full range of S12 and S12X products enables scalability, hardware and software reusability, and compatibility across a broad array of automotive electronics platforms.
The S12XS family features a streamlined set of on-chip peripheral, memory and package options optimised for automotive body and passenger comfort applications.
Potential applications include seat controllers, heat ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) control modules, steering wheel controllers and sunroofs.
The S12XS devices are also available in QFN packages as small as 7 x 7mm - a reduced size for a 16bit MCU.
Compact packaging makes these devices suitable for space-constrained applications, such as small actuators, sensor modules and column-integrated modules.
"Automotive electronics customers continually look for ways to reduce development cost and time while maintaining software and hardware reusability across applications and platforms", said Mike McCourt, Vice President and General Manager of Freescale's microcontroller division.
"With the introduction of the S12XS family, Freescale now offers a full range of compatible, 16bit price/performance options, giving customers greater flexibility in their body electronics designs".
Freescale offers a broad range of price, performance, peripheral and package options within each of its MCU families and provides automotive customers with choices that span 8, 16 and 32bit architectures.
Within each product family and architecture, customers can choose the optimal device at the right price point for their application needs and easily migrate to higher performance and more advanced functionality.
They also can leverage common sets of hardware and software tools, which can help reduce development cost and speed time to market.
Freescale's S12 MCU family is the most widely adopted 16bit architecture in the automotive market.
S12-based devices are now shipping at a rate of more than 100 million units per year.
The scalable S12 family offers developers a range of choices for their application needs, with on-chip Flash scaling from 32Kbyte to 1Mbyte and a smooth migration path to higher performance S12X devices.
Freescale plans to offer samples of MC9S12XS family devices in Q1 2007.
Evaluationboards, software and documentation are available now.
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