Philips Semiconductors' Single-Wire CAN Transceivers Reduce Costs for Auto Body Networks

    SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 25 Philips Semiconductors, a
division of Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHI), today announced a
new family of single-wire controller area network (CAN) transceivers for use
in cost-sensitive auto body networking applications.  Compared to current
alternative systems, the AU5790D and AU5790D14 1W CAN transceivers reduce
wiring, assembly and maintenance costs for automotive manufacturers.
    The products act as bus transceivers in body electronics applications such
as climate control, door locks, instruments clusters, seat positioning and
other body and convenience systems.  The AU5790D and AU5790D14 1W transceivers
support GMLAN and SAEJ2411 standards for single-wire CANs, which include data
rates of 33.3kbps and a maximum of 32 nodes and can be increased to 41.6kbps
with modified bus loading.
    The AU5790D also contains a built-in selective sleep feature that reduces
the battery load, thus, allowing enhanced battery life during ignition off
operation.  In addition, a unique high voltage wake-up feature allows normal
bus communications without disturbing any sleeping nodes.
    "The AU5790D product family allows world-class system power savings with
its 'selective wake up' feature," said Pascal Langlois, vice president,
Automotive Global Market Segment, Philips Semiconductors.  "In addition, this
new product family achieves maximum flexibility, performance and reliability
with an economical single-wire CAN configuration.  This demonstrates Philips
Semiconductors continued commitment to the best automotive solutions for all
networks."
    Adding to Philips Semiconductors' extensive automotive product portfolio,
the AU5790D product family offers automotive manufacturers a fourfold increase
in performance compared to single-wire non-CAN body systems.  In addition,
Philips Semiconductors' new family of CAN transceivers features built-in fault
tolerance for protection against loss of system ground and communications
disruptions during these events.  The new transceiver family includes
robustness against electro-static discharge (ESD) by featuring 8KV ESD
capability on the battery and CanH pins and has built-in surge protection
ensuring full compliance with SAEJ113/ISO7637-1 specifications.

    Pricing and Availability
    The AU5790D and AU5790D14 1W CAN transceiver products are available in
North America now in volume with prices starting from US$1.33 in volumes of
less than 10,000 in the SO-8 and SO-14 packages respectively.

    About Philips Semiconductors
    Philips Semiconductors, which had annual revenues of approximately
US$6.3 billion in 2000, designs and manufactures semiconductors and silicon
systems platforms.  Philips Semiconductors is spearheading the emerging field
of systems on silicon solutions with the innovative Nexperia(TM) platform and
VLSI Velocity(TM) tool set.  The company's Sea-of-IP(TM) design methodology
allows plug and play intellectual property blocks for easily customizable
products.  The company is a leader in communications, consumer, PC peripherals
and automotive semiconductors, which are key applications for convergence in
end-user products.  Philips Semiconductors is headquartered in Eindhoven, The
Netherlands, and has operations throughout the world.  For more information:
http://www.semiconductors.philips.com.

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