NEC Electronics Announces 78K0R/Kx3-L Save it! Demonstration Kit

The 78K0R/Kx3-L Save it! demonstration kit is an extension of NEC Electronics’ high-performance All Flash product line targeted for low power applications, which supports on-board debugging and Flash programming. The board, which can be connected to a PC via a USB connection, contains hardware elements such as several push and DIP switches, switches for operation mode setting, 7-segment LED as well as a phototransistor which acts as a luminance sensor, all there to easily demonstrate simple I/O functions or peripheral operation. In addition, the board has a connection facility to external user hardware for custom tests. The demonstration kit also provides a user-friendly power consumption and frequency demonstration GUI that allows the user to monitor the current internal oscillator frequency and the operating current, as well as to check the luminance of the environment thanks to the on-board phototransistor.

The flexibility of the 78K0R/Kx3-L Save it! demonstration kit combined with a number of demonstration projects included in the kit enables developers to rapidly evaluate the 78K0R/Kx3-L microcontroller and the board from different aspects and experiment with its peripherals.

The 78K0R/Kx3-L Demonstration Kit is built on the ultra low power and high performance 78K0R/Kx3-L 16-bit microcontroller, which offers fully implemented on-chip peripherals. One of its main features is a highly accurate oscillator circuit providing up to 20MHz frequency on-chip at better than +/-2% accuracy, and enabling selection of 1MHz, 8MHz or 20MHz clocks whilst completely removing the need for an external clock circuit. It also includes innovative new analog circuitry which has been implemented on-chip, including accurate and high-speed A/D converters that work across the entire supply voltage range, an on-chip x1 to x12 programmable operational amplifier and 2 comparator channels making the 78K0R/Kx3-L an ideal selection for sensor applications.

For power-critical applications, further enhancements to increase battery lifetime include Flash programming down to 1.8V and a 1.8V to 5.5V supply voltage, without restriction, across the entire family. It also integrates fully flexible 16-bit timer and serial interface array units as well as standard peripherals such as a Real Time Clock, DMA controller, windowed Watchdog timer and other safety functions complete 78K0R/Kx3-L’s highly integrated peripheral set. Embedded Flash memory sizes start from just 16KB, with variants all the way up to 512KB available across the 78K0R family, providing a flexible and seamless upgrade path to more functionality if required.

The new Save it! Demonstration Kit will be available by end of March.