Motorola's Line of PowerPC( Microcontrollers Becoming the Standard

 New Member of PowerPC MPC5XX Family, and Enhanced PowerPC-Based mobileGT(TM)
                                  Technology

    DETROIT, March 6 Finding a microcontroller with the right
combination of performance, memory, and integration can be a challenge for
today's engineer.  At a press conference held in conjunction with the SAE 2001
show in Detroit, Motorola today revealed its line of products that may help
engineers overcome this challenge through its expansion of the PowerPC(TM)
family.  Motorola's line of PowerPC microcontrollers is the high-performance
solution of choice from Motorola for networking and automotive applications.
Last year, according to Strategy Analytics, 32-bit processors powered
10 percent of the vehicle and are expected to take over 25 percent of the
processing power in the vehicle by 2005.  Motorola is expanding its portfolio
of high-performance PowerPC microcontrollers to provide smarter solutions
customized to the driver's specific needs.

    At the press conference, the company revealed an advanced PowerPC
microcontroller the MPC561, a flashless derivative of the popular MPC5XX
family that has realized great success in powertrain applications such as
gasoline engine management, direct diesel injection, and electronic
transmission control.  The company also announced its first MGT5000 family
processor as part of its PowerPC-based mobileGT(TM) architecture for driver
information systems.

    PowerPC Microcontrollers for Advanced Vehicle Systems

    Since the introduction of the MPC555 in 1998, this family has rapidly
gained acceptance as a leading microcontroller in powertrain control and is
beginning to see design-ins into applications such as instrumentation and
suspension control.  With the adoption of the family as a standard for
powertrain applications by many North American and European car manufacturers,
the MPC5XX family is quickly becoming the industry standard.

    "Automotive customers need high performance to tackle increasingly complex
applications such as emission control, maximized engine performance, and
electronic transmission control.  To deliver on these requirements, a high-
speed, cost-effective solution is needed with higher levels of system
integration," said Paul Grimme, vice president & general manager, Motorola.
"With code compatibility across the PowerPC family, highly integrated
peripherals, and the PowerPC 32-bit core, customers can come into this family
and know they have the quality, flexibility and variety to meet their specific
needs."

    The MPC561 provides the performance and integration of powerful
peripherals from the MPC5XX family systems designers require for embedded
applications.  This flashless microcontroller is designed to give designers a
cost-effective choice for applications not requiring the highest performance
from embedded flash or those that require larger memory arrays than currently
available on chip.  It also moves the PowerPC family into lower cost
application areas.  The MPC561 complements the MPC555 and MPC565, which
provide 448K bytes and 1 megabyte of on-board FLASH respectively.  General
customer sampling is expected to be available in the third quarter of this
year.

    The MPC561 offers an enhanced analog to digital converter that is
engineered to permit sharing of clocks for synchronous operation.  It also
offers an improved system integration unit that has the enhanced interrupt
architecture, a branch target buffer, and external burst support to maximize
performance from external memory.  The part works in full automotive and
industrial temperature ranges at-40 to +125 degrees C.  The MPC561 also
features a full Class 3 Nexus(*) debug and calibration port.  

    PowerPC Microcontrollers for Driver Information Systems

    The Driver Information Systems (DIS) market also received a boost today
with Motorola's announcement of its first MGT5000 family processor, a PowerPC-
based device that builds on the acceptance of the PowerPC(TM) microcontroller
in automotive applications.  mobileGT(TM), a Java(TM)-compliant architecture,
targeted for automotive DIS, is engineered to be scaleable across a wide range
of products, and can allow automobile manufacturers to leverage a common
development approach while providing product differentiation.  The newly
announced mobileGT(TM) core processors are designed to enable tailored
applications and system integration such as dynamic navigation, wireless
connectivity and Internet access, natural language speech recognition and
generation, car digital audio, virtual dashboards, multimedia and more.

    Motorola's first MGT5000 family processor, the MGT5100 with 326 MIPS
performance, is expected to be sampling in late 2001, with production
scheduled for 2002.  Within two years, Motorola plans to increase the
computing power of the MGT5000 family to 1000+ MIPS, enabling the company to
offer automotive manufacturers what it believes will be the fastest processing
speed combined with a robust DIS feature set available on the market.  The
percent of new cars with DIS is increasing rapidly, with an estimated
41 percent of new cars in 2005 expected to include such driver friendly
systems (Strategy Analytics, February, 2000).  The mobileGT architecture is a
smart DigitalDNA(TM) technology from Motorola that enables in-vehicle
communication.

    "Automotive manufacturers will increasingly need more computing power to
handle the consumers' desires for in-car information services, wireless
connectivity, messaging and productivity, entertainment, driver-related
services such as graphics, large vocabulary speech, emergency service
connectors and OEM/dealer functions," states Bill Pfaff, vice president and
general manager of Driver Information Systems, Motorola   "Our MGT5X00
solution with next generation enhancements enables enhanced speech
capabilities, Java(TM) applications, graphics, Bluetooth(TM) technology, GFX,
1394, and audio codec.  In addition, it is 'future-enabled' to handle new
applications.  The consolidation of features, speed, consistent and friendly
architecture in an open, environment make the mobileGT architecture an ideal
solution."

    Motorola has recently concluded an agreement with Pi Technology who
specialize in the design of advanced automotive electronics for tier one
suppliers and OEMs.  Pi Technology is using mobileGT to developed high end
feature sets and new concepts in automotive interior systems.  Julian Styles,
Pi Technology's Interior Systems Business Unit Leader said "mobileGT has
already allowed us to build systems in a few weeks instead of months or years,
allowing us to focus on the end product rather than the building blocks."  Pi
Technology is investing and developing its interior systems business and is
committed to mobileGT as part of its strategy. In return, Motorola SPS will
give Pi prioritized access to mobileGT related system products and recommend
Pi Technology as a leading integrator for the mobileGT architecture.