NEC Electronics has announced today that several of its existing MPEG decoders already available in mass production are supporting the DVB Audio Description Services, as supported by DTT in the UK. Making use of the performance of its devices available today, NEC Electronics devices are already capable of decoding in parallel the main MPEG audio service and the Audio Description services on chip, and mixing the two signals for the output to the ...

NEC Electronics and Dwight Cavendish Systems (DCS) are pleased to announce the integration of DCS analogue copy protection into the EMMA series of devices from NEC Electronics. DCS analogue copy protection system uses patented copy protection strategies. The EMMA family of MPEG decoder products from NEC Electronics deliver digital video in a system on a chip designed for the DVB and Satellite markets, Terrestrial, Cable, and IP, including Digital...

NEC Electronics Europe and Vector Informatik have introduced a complete AUTOSAR software stack for NEC Electronics’ V850ES/Fx3 and V850E/PHO3 microcontrollers, based on NEC Electronics’ 32-bit V850 CPU core. NEC Electronics’ microcontroller abstraction layer (MCAL) software contains all AUTOSAR device driver and interface modules. To match the exceptional quality standards of the hardware, the MCAL software was developed using best-in-class...

NEC Electronics has introduced the V850E/PHO3, a new microcontroller for automotive chassis applications. The V850E/PHO3 is the first NEC Electronics device featuring an embedded FlexRay Communication Controller based on the E-Ray IP licensed from Robert Bosch GmbH.

NEC Electronics introduces a new family of High Speed Optocouplers coming in a new white DIP package that provides enhanced isolation and shielding characteristics: 5000 Vrms isolation voltage; >0.4mm internal isolation distance; >8mm outer creepage distance; Minimum CMR of 15KV/µs.

NEC Electronics and Solomon Systech Limited, a world leader in advanced display IC technology and a Contributor Member in the MIPI Alliance, today announced an agreement by the two companies to test the interoperability of liquid crystal display (LCD) driver ICs and bridge ICs for mobile phones based on the Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Display Serial Interface (DSI) specification. Verification of the ICs will enable mobile phone ma...

NEC Electronics Europe today introduced the TO-263-7 PowerMOSFET series as the newest addition to the company’s NP Series of low-voltage power-management devices. As part of the NP Series, the new MOSFET devices feature an innovative fabrication process and advanced packaging solutions designed to reduce leakage current, manage heat dissipation more efficiently and enable one of the industry’s lowest on-state resistances Rds(on), of 1,5 milli...

NEC Electronics Europe has announced the availability of two new PowerMOSFET families. The µPA273xUT1A family is designed for use in the protection circuitry of lithium-ion (Li-Ion) batteries for notebook PCs, and is designed to help prevent heat generation and explosions that may result from Li-Ion battery overcurrent. The second, the µPA272xUT1A family, helps to power CPUs and chipsets in notebooks, desktop PCs and servers, and is designed fo...

NEC Electronics Europe announces the availability of the 78K0/Lx3 SEE-IT! starter kit, supporting the recently launched 78K0/Lx3 8-bit LCD microcontroller family. SEE-IT! adds to the existing range of microcontroller starter kits from NEC Electronics, designed to deliver customers with a complete out-of-the-box experience when selecting an appropriate microcontroller.