16bit micro evaluation kits up for grabs

Designers starting new 16bit micro projects can bag a free development kit from Sequoia, supporting the Mitsubishi M16C/62 MCU.

Designers starting new 16bit micro projects can bag a free development kit from Sequoia, supporting the Mitsubishi M16C/62 MCU.

The distributor has 100 3-Diamonds evaluation kits to give away including the latest Kickstart CD, containing newly released development tools.

Essential hardware, including PP3 battery, serial cable and header connectors, is also included in the kit.

The M16C is a compact, new 16bit MCU that combines the advantages of both register and accumulator-based architectures to provide high-speed processing with RISC-like performance.

Low voltage operation and low power consumption combine with high on-chip integration to enable an efficient solution in portable and cost-sensitive applications.

Mitsubishi created the 3-Diamonds kit, which is well positioned to support customer projects based on the M16C.

The playing-card-sized board measures 70 x 50mm and includes the M16C/62A Flash micro, which features 256Kbit Flash and 20Kbit RAM onboard.

A reset IC, voltage regulator and crystal oscillator are also included, mounted on the underside of the board.

Eight separate status LEDs facilitate development.

The Kickstart CD includes a trial version of IAR M16C compiler, IAR Visual State analyser, Flash programming software, debug software, ROM monitor, sample code and a software simulator.

Targeted for a wide range of applications, the M16C features an easy-to-use 91 instruction set including a "repeat multiply/accumulate" instruction.

The instruction set is optimised for C programming efficiency, enabling program ROM size to be minimised to reduce total system cost.

2.7V operation and low power consumption (18mW at 7MHz) enables strong performance in portable applications, and allows use of a small back-up battery.

Unwanted EMC emissions have been reduced to a maximum of 20dB, this simplifies CE marking of the end product.

The device is also able to withstand a 20kV discharge.

On-chip peripherals include eight 10bit ADC channels, two DMA channels, three UART channels and eight timers.

The M16C is designed with the industry's first masked ROM program correction function.

This address-match interrupt scheme allows designers to correct a faulty mask ROM program via an external EEPROM.

ROM code correction enables correction of software bugs found after the internal ROM has been masked at the factory, this saves having to re-mask a new ROM, thus saving both costs and time.

The M16C is available in 100-pin QFP, 100-pin LQFP, 100-pin LCC, 56-pin QFP and 52-pin SDIP.

Flash, ROM, mask, OTP, EPROM and ROMless versions are available.

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