Renesas' Compact, Low-Cost 16-bit Flash Microcontrollers with CAN Interface Enable Small, Inexpensive Automotive Safety and Body-Control Systems.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Embedded Systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. Conference San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden 2003 SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 2003 Renesas Technology Renesas Technology Corporation (ルネサス テクノロジ| America, Inc. -- a U.S. subsidiary of the new joint-venture semiconductor company established by Hitachi, Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (三菱電機株式会社 Corporation with the top microcontroller (MCU (1) (MicroController Unit) A computer on a single chip. See microcontroller. (2) (Multipoint Control Unit) A device that is used to moderate a videoconference of three or more end points (users at computers or groups of users ) market share, worldwide -- today announced low-pin-count, small-package 16-bit single-chip MCUs with on-chip, industry-standard controller area network (CAN) and local interconnect network The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. This article is about a network system. (LIN) interfaces for use in automotive applications. The 16 devices, members of the Tiny Series, are designed specifically to reduce the size and system cost of door modules, airbag controllers, shock absorber shock absorber, device for reducing the effect of a sudden shock by the dissipation of the shock's energy. On an automobile, springs and shock absorbers are mounted between the wheels and the frame. controllers, anti-theft devices and other electronics modules that are networked to protect safety and body-control systems in the vehicle. Eight of the MCUs are in the H8/36057 series; the other eight are in the H8/36037 series. Four are F-ZTAT(TM) MCUs that offer up to 56 kilobytes (56KB) of on-chip flash memory for in-circuit programmability, while the remaining 12 have up to 56KB of mask ROM (mask Read Only Memory) Refers to ROM chips. The term is used to differentiate static ROM chips from programmable ROM varieties (EPROM, EEPROM, flash ROM). See ROM. for lower cost. All operate at up to 20MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. at 5V, have an optimum level of peripheral integration, provide power-saving operating modes, and have space-saving 64-pin QFP (Quad FlatPack) A square, surface mount chip package that has leads on all four sides and comes in several varieties. PQFP (Plastic QFP) may refer to all of the following QFP types. All quad flatpacks use gull-wing leads, except for the CQFP, which stick straight out. (14mm x 14mm) or LQFP See QFP. (10mm x 10mm) packages. Facilitating Interconnected Automotive Systems See ITS, embedded system, drive-by-wire, adaptive cruise control, collision avoidance system, autonomous vehicle, heads-up display, DSRC, lane departure system, CAN bus, FlexRay and SYNC. The design trend in automotive applications is to interconnect the different in-vehicle electronics modules. Sensors talk to one or more controllers that exchange information and drive actuators that provide feedback for precise, closed-loop control. To provide the connectivity cost-effective networked designs require, the economical H8/36057 and H8/36037 series MCUs support four communication functions. The MCUs include a Tiny HCAN HCAN Hockey Canada (governing body of Canadian hockey) (Hitachi CAN) function, a full CAN-compatible, 4-message-buffer network controller that complies with the Bosch CAN Ver. 2.0B active specification. They also support the LIN, an in-vehicle, low-speed network (20,000 bits per second) for switching or operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . The H8/36057 and H8/36037 series chips can be used as the master controller in a LIN installation or as one of the up to 15 slave processors. For automotive applications, drivers for the CAN and LIN interfaces are available. The MCUs also have an on-chip serial communication interface (SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface) An IEEE standard for a high-speed bus that uses wire or fiber-optic cable. It can transfer data up to 1GBytes/sec. (hardware) SCI - 1. Scalable Coherent Interface. 2. UART. ) that support both asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. and synchronous communications. The H8/36037 MCUs have one SCI channel, whereas the H8/36057 devices have two. They also provide a 4-wire synchronous serial communication unit (SSU SSU Small Subunit SSU Sonoma State University SSU Savannah State University (Savannah, Georgia) SSU Shawnee State University (Ohio) SSU Salisbury State University ) that simplifies communication with an external device such as an EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM) A rewritable memory chip that holds its content without power. Although EEPROMs spawned flash memory, EEPROMs are byte addressable at the write level, whereas flash chips must erase a block of bytes before rewriting. or sensor. Features That Help Reduce System Cost To allow system engineers to choose the most economical MCU for a particular application to reduce system cost, Renesas offers a variety of memory sizes in each of the new series. The F-ZTAT MCUs have either 56KB or 32KB of flash. Other versions have 56KB, 48KB, 40KB, 32KB, 24KB, or 16KB of mask ROM. The on-chip flash memory can be programmed and erased using a single power supply. This capability enables control programs, system adjustment data, and the like to be rewritten on-board, for shorter system development times and in-field software updates. The H8/36057 and H8/36037 MCUs provide key on-chip peripherals that help reduce system cost. Besides the previously mentioned CAN, LIN and SCI functions, they have sophisticated timers, a 10-bit A/D converter (Analog/Digital converter) A device that converts continuously varying analog signals from instruments and sensors that monitor conditions, such as sound, movement and temperature into binary code for the computer. , and high-current pins. For applications that require protection from power supply voltage fluctuations, power-on reset A power-on reset (PoR) generator is a microcontroller or microprocessor peripheral that generates a reset signal when power is applied to the device. It ensures that the device starts operating in a known state. (POR POR problem-oriented record. POR abbr. problem-oriented record POR Problem-Oriented Record. ) and low-voltage detection (LVD See LVDS. LVD - Low Voltage Differential ) functions are available as options, reducing the external parts needed. RC Oscillator, Subtimer Decrease System Power Consumption The MCUs integrate the system clock oscillation circuit used for full-speed operation. They also provide an RC (resister capacitor) oscillation circuit for use as a low-speed subclock, and a subtimer that operates on this subclock. These circuits are useful in an application such as a keyless entry system, in which the system clock, CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , and peripheral modules are halted in module standby mode and only the subtimer operates, activating the CPU periodically. To minimize power dissipation, the device has four power-saving modes: sleep, standby, subsleep and subactive. In addition to the existing E10T on-chip debugger emulator, Renesas is offering a new upward compatible E7 emulator. The E7 emulator is an upgraded version of the E10T and supports a USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. 1.1 interface. Additionally, Renesas offers low-cost evaluation development kits (EDKs) that come with an EDK EDK Embedded Development Kit EDK Emotiv Development Kit EDK European Death Knot (rock climbing) EDK Effective Date of Key (cryptography) EDK External Drift Kriging EDK Electric Dynamic Katathermometer board and a CD ROM that contains an evaluation version of the HEW (High-performance Embedded Workshop), the Flash Development Toolkit (FDT FDT - Formal Description Technique ) and the debugging interface tool. These tools allow program debugging to be carried out with the MCU mounted on a circuit board. The wide range of tools available for H8 Tiny Series devices can also be used to develop embedded systems that apply the new MCUs.
Price and Availability
20MHz, 16-bit H8/300H Renesas Part Package Quantity Price/
series MCUs with on-chip Number Availability
CAN function
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H8/36057F with 56KB flash HD64F36057H QFP-64 Samples $ 5.10 / WS
in June, MP
in Oct 2003
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H8/36057 with 56KB Mask HD64336057H QFP-64 Samples $ 3.00 /WS
ROM in June, MP
in Dec 2003
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H8/36034F with 32KB flash HD64F36037FP LQFP-64 Samples $4 .80 /WS
in June, MP
in Oct 2003
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H8/36034 with 32KB Mask HD64336034FP LQFP-64 Samples $ 2.45/WS in
ROM June, MP in
Dec 2003
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Reader contact Readers can find additional product and contact information on the Renesas Technology Web site at www.renesas.com. About Renesas Technology Corp. Renesas Technology Corp. designs and manufactures highly integrated semiconductor system solutions for mobile, networking, automotive, industrial and digital home electronics markets. Established on April 1, 2003 as a joint venture between Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :6501, NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HIT) and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TSE:6503) and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Renesas Technology is one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world and the number one microcontroller supplier globally. Besides microcontrollers, Renesas Technology offers system-on-chip devices, Smart Card ICs, mixed-signal products, flash memories, SRAMs and more. www.renesas.com Note: F-ZTAT: Flexible-Zero Turn Around Time (F-ZTAT) is Renesas' technology to integrate flash memory with microcontrollers to help simplify on-board programming. F-ZTAT is a trademark of Renesas Technology Corp. Note to Editors: A specification summary is included in this release, and a photo and block diagram of the H8/36057F microcomputer are available.
Specifications: Renesas H8/36057 series and H8/36037 series MCUs
Item Specifications
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Product Series H8/36057 Series H8/36037 Series
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MCU type F-ZTAT(TM) Mask ROM F-ZTAT(TM) Mask ROM
versions versions versions versions
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Renesas part HD64F36057 HD64336057/6/5 HD64F36037 HD64336037/6/5
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HD64F36054 HD64336054/3/2 HD64F36034 HD64336034/3/2
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Memory ROM 56K 56K/48K/40K 56K 56K/48K/40K
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(bytes) 32K 32K/24K/16K 32K 32K/24K/16K
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RAM 3K 2K/2K/2K 3K 2K/2K/2K
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(bytes) 2K 1K/1K/1K 2K 1K/1K/1K
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Process 0.35-micron CMOS
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Oscillation 2MHz to 10MHz/2.7V to 5.5V,
frequency/ power- 2MHz to 20MHz/4.0V to 5.5V
supply voltage
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Operating -40 degrees C to +85 degrees C (automotive
temperature temperature also available)
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CPU core H8/300H CPU
-- General registers: 8 bits x 16, 16 bits x 8
-- Minimum instruction execution time: 100ns
(20MHz operation)
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Timers 8-bit interval timer/real-time clock time base x 1
channel
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8-bit free-running/external event counter/compare
match x 1 channel
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16-bit input capture/output compare x 2 channels
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RC oscillator dedicated 8-bit interval timer x 1
channel
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8-bit independent-type watchdog timer x 1 channel
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Serial 8-bit synchronous/asynchronous
communication ---------------------------------------------------
interface 2 channels 1 channel
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4-wire synchronous 1 channel
serial
communication unit
(SSU)
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Tiny HCAN 1 channel
controller area (Bosch CAN Ver. 2.0B active specification-
network compliant; full CAN support with 4-message buffer)
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A/D converter 10-bit resolution x 8 channels
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Address break Address/data x 1 channel
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I/O Input/ 45, including 8 large-current ports (20mA)
output
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ports Input 8
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Clocks System clock oscillator (2 MHz to 20 MHz crystal
resonator, ceramic resonator)
External clock (1 MHz to 20 MHz)
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On-chip RC oscillator
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Interrupts External 11 11
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Internal 49 46
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Power-down Four modes: Sleep, Standby, Subsleep, Subactive
functions -- Other functions: Module Standby mode, system
clock division function
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Packages QFP-64 (14mm x 14mm), LQFP-64 (10mm x 10mm)
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