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News Release from: NXP Semiconductors | Subject: SC16C850V etc
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 December 2006
UART family supports next-generation
interfaces
High-speed, high-performance 1.8V UART family supports the VLIO bus specification from Marvell as well as Intel and Motorola bus interfaces.
NXP Semiconductors has announced the industry's first high-speed, high-performance 1.8V UART family that supports the VLIO bus specification from Marvell as well as Intel and Motorola bus interfaces The stand-alone 1.8V UART family from NXP features the smallest packaging currently available on the market
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Running at 5Mbit/s and featuring a 128byte FIFO, the four devices in the new NXP 1.8V UART family fully support advanced connectivity interfaces such as Bluetooth enhanced datarate (EDR) and are perfect for next-generation portable devices running on 1.8V processors.
"The NXP 1.8V UART provides a seamless connection to Marvell's PXA3xx application processor family via the VLIO bus interface", said Gary Forni, Director, Platform Enabling, Cellular and Handheld Business Unit, Communications and Consumer Business Group at Marvell.
"With this high-speed, high-performance 1.8V UART family, NXP has delivered innovation to the interface market for applications requiring high speed options running on Marvell PXAxx platforms".
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"To meet the demands of emerging connectivity standards and next-generation portable devices running on 1.8V processors, our customers requested higher-performance low-power UARTs", said Dhwani Vyas, General Manager, PL Interface Products, Business Line Standard ICs, NXP Semiconductors.
"The NXP 1.8V UART family exceeds our customers' connectivity and performance demands thanks to its 5Mbit/s datarate, 128byte FIFO, and support of all major bus interfaces".
The NXP 1.8V UART family is available in a TFBGA packaging that is only 3.5 x 3.5mm to deliver the industry's smallest UART form factor and allow for smaller designs of handheld devices.
All devices in the family fully support Bluetooth EDR datarates, which only require 3Mbit/s at 1.8V, and the family runs at 5Mbit/s.
As an added benefit, the NXP 1.8V UART family provides long-distance communications through its automatic RS485 feature and ensures short-range wireless capabilities with its embedded IrDA encoder.
These capabilities make the NXP 1.8V UART family ideal for portable devices such as smartphones, handheld gaming and GPS modules that need to interface with Bluetooth EDR and wireless modems.
The family consists of four devices.
The NXP SC16C850V and SC16C850L are single-channel UARTs, whereas the NXP SC16C852V and SC16C852L are two-channel UARTs.
The NXP SC16C850V and SC16C852V support the VLIO interface, whereas the NXP SC16C850L and SC16C852L support Intel or Motorola interfaces.
In addition, all the UARTs offer a fractional divider that allows an existing system clock to be used rather than an external crystal.
The NXP 1.8V UARTs are available immediately.
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