Product category:
Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Tekmos | Subject: TK68HC05B6
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 13 May 2008
Drop-in replacement stabilises MCU
supply
The TK68HC05B6 is a pin-, code- and timing-compatible drop-in replacement for the original Freescale MC68HC05 microcontroller.
Tekmos has come up with the industry's first true pin-, code- and timing-compatible drop-in replacement for the MC68HC05B6 as offered by Freescale Semiconductor The TK68HC05B6 provides 256byte of EEPROM, a 16bit timer, two PWMs, a watchdog timer, an eight-channel A/D convertor, 24bit bidirectional I/O lines, an on-chip oscillator with crystal/ceramic resonator and serial communications capability
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Feb 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The TK68HC05B6 will be packaged in a 52-PLCC.
Other package offerings supported include 64-QFP and custom adapter solutions for the 56-SDIP.
The TK68HC05B6 is designed as a pin-, code- and timing-compatible drop-in replacement for the original Freescale MC68HC05 microcontroller.
Tekmos offers customers the security of a stable product supply now and in the future as specialists in supporting mature products.
Tekmos also plans to introduce several derivative products to replace other Freescale Semiconductor microcontrollers such as the MC68HC705, MC68HC711 and MC68HC11 products as drop in replacements.
Bob Abrams, Vice President of Sales and Marketing says: "Our devices are engineered to be a compatible drop in replacement".
"This eliminates any need to modify the printed circuit board or existing software code".
The TK68HC05B6 will be sampled in August 2008.
The 52-PLCC version is priced at US $1.30 in 10,000-unit quantities.
There is a mask programming charge of US $5000 for each device code.
An FPGA based customer evaluation board is available now for customers wishing to verify the Tekmos TK68HC05B6 design in their products.
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