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Motorola Introduces Low Cost FLASH 68HC908 8-bit MCUs with A/D

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 18, 1999--Answering the industry's ever-growing need for affordable products in cost-sensitive applications and faster time-to-market, Motorola today introduced the 68HC908JL and 68HC908JK families of in-system programmable FLASH microcontrollers (MCUs).

Design engineers can now benefit from extremely cost effective and flexible 20 and 28-pin FLASH MCU solutions in systems where only hardwired or electromechanical devices were affordable.

Architecture
Based on the 68HC08 architecture, the 68HC908JL and 68HC908 JK family of solutions includes enhanced FLASH to directly minimize production programming costs while increasing flexibility in field reprogrammability -- it programs 64 bytes in as fast as 2 msec. The enhanced FLASH can increase write/erase cycling up to 10,000 cycles over operating temperature, allowing customers to use the flash for data storage, eliminating the cost of separate data EEPROM.

"The JL and JK products are further additions to Motorola's growing 68HC08 family, providing a code compatible, high-performance FLASH MCU upgrade to the 3 billion 68HC05s used around the world," said Greg White, general manager of the Motorola Microcontroller Division. "According to Dataquest, Motorola's 8-bit microcontrollers are the most popular 8-bit MCU architectures shipped."

With an industry leading market share of 25% for 8-bit MCUs worldwide (per Dataquest), there is a large selection of third party development tools and consultants knowledgeable of Motorola's MCUs, thus providing designers with a wide range of support services required to bring their products to market faster with higher quality.

Embedded Flash and Analog Peripherals
In-application reprogrammability of the JK and JL microcontrollers provides great flexibility with either 1.5K or 4K bytes of FLASH, eliminating sockets and costly field recalls when new application code is required. A 12-channel Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) and a multi-trip point Low Voltage Inhibit (LVI) are integrated for reduced systems cost in common analog applications. Customers can choose between RC or crystal oscillators to best optimize cost vs. clock accuracy. Direct LED drives further reduce system cost by integrating high current I/O.

Pricing and Availability
Motorola's JL and JK families with enhanced FLASH are attractively priced. Suggested distributor resale ranges from $2.10 USD for the 68HC908JL3 in quantities up to 50KU to $0.99 USD for the 68HC908JK1 in quantities over 500Ku - what is believed to be the industry's first 8-bit FLASH MCU with Analog-to-Digital Converter for less than $1.00.

Samples and volume production of the 68HC908JL3 and JK3 are scheduled to be available in November, 1999; the 68HC908JK1 is planned for January, 2000. The JL3 and JK3 are scheduled to be produced in both commercial and automotive temperature ranges of -40 degrees to +85º C and -40º to +125º C. The 68HC908JK1 are scheduled to be produced in the commercial temperature range of -40º to +85º C. Additional information can be accessed through the Motorola web site

Both the JL and JK families are being launched with available, high-quality development solutions at multiple price points:

• Free, downloadable software, including assembler, full-chip simulator, debugger and FLASH programming software at Motorola's web site
• $295 hardware and software development kit (M68ICS08JL) including samples
• $1495 real-time, in-circuit MMEVS development kit (KITMMEVS08JL)
• $3950 High Performance MMDS emulation kit (KITMMDS08JL) with integral bus state analyzer
• Large selection of third-party development software and hardware; visit Motorola's web site for information.
• Significantly improved web services with hyper-text linked reference manuals, application notes, a searchable FAQ knowledge database, development tool and applications software downloads
• Large network of trained applications engineers through Motorola and authorized distributors

As the world's No. 1 producer of embedded processors, Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector offers multiple DigitalDNA™ solutions, which enable its customers in the consumer, networking and computing, transportation, and wireless communications markets, to create new business opportunities. Motorola's worldwide semiconductor sales were $7.3 billion (USD) in l998.

Motorola is a global leader in providing integrated communications solutions and embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 1998 were $29.4 (USD) billion.

This product incorporates SuperFlash technology licensed from Silicon Storage Technology Inc.