Freescale Enhances 16-Bit Microcontroller Lineup With Scalable, Cost-Effective Family

  
    
  
  
    
      Addressing customer needs for design flexibility and platform 
      compatibility, Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) has 
      unveiled a 16-bit microcontroller (MCU) family optimized 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.
    
    
      The latest addition to the S12X portfolio, the S12XS family provides an 
      economical, compatible extension to the recently announced 
      high-performance S12XE family. It also broadens the overall S12X product 
      offering and provides customers with lower cost and smaller package 
      options. The S12XS and S12XE families have complementary memory, 
      peripherals and packages. This flexibility can help designers react 
      quickly to market opportunities and reduce the cost of migration if 
      application requirements change during the development cycle. 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 optimized 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 7mm x 7mm – a 
      reduced size for a 16-bit 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, 16-bit 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 32-bit 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 16-bit 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 32KB to 1MB and a 
      smooth migration path to higher performance S12X devices.
    
    
      MC9S12XS Family Features
    
    
      The MC9S12XS family provides a cost-effective complement to the 
      high-performance S12XE MCU family. Key features include:
    
    
      
        32MHz core and bus speed
      
      
        64KB, 128KB and 256KB flash memory options, all with error correction 
        code (ECC)
      
      
        4KB to 8KB DataFlash with ECC, used for data or program storage
      
      
        Choice of configurable 8-,10- or 12-bit analog-to-digital converter 
        (ADC), capable of 3µs conversion time
      
      
        Support for control area network (CAN), local interconnect network 
        (LIN) and serial peripheral interface (SPI) protocols
      
      
        8-channel timer with 16-bit counters
      
      
        Excellent EMC / run & stop current performance
      
      
        Broad package options for small footprint requirements:
      
    
            --  48QFN, 7mm x 7mm x 1mm, 0.5mm pitch
        --  64LQFP, 10mm x 10mm x 1.4mm, 0.5mm pitch
        --  80QFP, 14mm x14mm x 2.2mm, 0.65mm pitch
        --  112 LQFP 20mm x 20mm x 1.4mm, 0.65mm pitch
    
      
        Extensive tools support from S12X family
      
    
    
      MC9S12XS Family Availability
    
    
      Freescale plans to offer samples of MC9S12XS family devices in Q1 2007. 
      Evaluation boards, software and documentation are available now. For 
      more product information, visit http://www.freescale.com/files/pr/s12xs.html.
    
    
      About Freescale Semiconductor
    
    
      Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) is a global leader 
      in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the 
      automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. 
      Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004. The company is 
      based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, 
      manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale, 
      a member of the S&P 500®, is one of the 
      world’s largest semiconductor companies with 
      2005 sales of $5.8 billion (USD). www.freescale.com.
    
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Addressing customer needs for design flexibility and platform
compatibility, Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) has
unveiled a 16-bit microcontroller (MCU) family optimized 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.

   The latest addition to the S12X portfolio, the S12XS family
provides an economical, compatible extension to the recently announced
high-performance S12XE family. It also broadens the overall S12X
product offering and provides customers with lower cost and smaller
package options. The S12XS and S12XE families have complementary
memory, peripherals and packages. This flexibility can help designers
react quickly to market opportunities and reduce the cost of migration
if application requirements change during the development cycle. 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 optimized 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 7mm x 7mm - a reduced size for a 16-bit
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, 16-bit
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 32-bit
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 16-bit
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 32KB to 1MB and a
smooth migration path to higher performance S12X devices.

   MC9S12XS Family Features

   The MC9S12XS family provides a cost-effective complement to the
high-performance S12XE MCU family. Key features include:

   --  32MHz core and bus speed

   --  64KB, 128KB and 256KB flash memory options, all with error
        correction code (ECC)

   --  4KB to 8KB DataFlash with ECC, used for data or program
        storage

   --  Choice of configurable 8-,10- or 12-bit analog-to-digital
        converter (ADC), capable of 3micros conversion time

   --  Support for control area network (CAN), local interconnect
        network (LIN) and serial peripheral interface (SPI) protocols

   --  8-channel timer with 16-bit counters

   --  Excellent EMC / run & stop current performance

   --  Broad package options for small footprint requirements:

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        --  48QFN, 7mm x 7mm x 1mm, 0.5mm pitch
        --  64LQFP, 10mm x 10mm x 1.4mm, 0.5mm pitch
        --  80QFP, 14mm x14mm x 2.2mm, 0.65mm pitch
        --  112 LQFP 20mm x 20mm x 1.4mm, 0.65mm pitch
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   --  Extensive tools support from S12X family

   MC9S12XS Family Availability

   Freescale plans to offer samples of MC9S12XS family devices in Q1
2007. Evaluation boards, software and documentation are available now.
For more product information, visit
http://www.freescale.com/files/pr/s12xs.html.

   About Freescale Semiconductor

   Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) is a global
leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for
the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets.
Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004. The company
is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development,
manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries.
Freescale, a member of the S&P 500(R), is one of the world's largest
semiconductor companies with 2005 sales of $5.8 billion (USD).
www.freescale.com.

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