Gleichmann to distribute 16-bit microcontrollers

The MCUs are based on a high-performance 78K0R core with 24MHz clock speed, which delivers up to 15 Dhrystone MIPS.

A feature of these MCUs is an enhanced instruction set containing 25 additional instructions.

Furthermore, particular attention was given to the enhancement and optimisation of the storage resources.

In addition to up to 256Kbytes Flash memory for the software, the MCU range offers a further 16Kbytes Flash memory, separated from the program memory, for the EEPROM emulation.

Linear memory addressing eliminates the need for memory banking.

Fast access times, both to program memory and data memory, enable a high execution speed.

An additional feature of the 78K0R/Fx3 devices is the extended LIN support with automatic baud rate detection and improved timer functionality, which reduces software effort and simplifies the design of complex timer implementations.

To facilitate application development with the 16-bit MCUs of the 78K0R/Fx3 series, engineers can rely on a wide range of field-tested tools.

In addition to the IEcube in-circuit emulator, which enables real-time trace and emulation, the offering also includes Minicube2 on-chip serial debugging emulator and Flash programmer, PG-FP5 Flash programmer and Applilet - an automatic source code generator.

The microcontrollers of the 78K0R/Fx3 series are available in QFN packages, QFPs or SSOPs with 30 to 100 pins.

Samples of the first devices are scheduled to be available during the middle of 2009.