Mitsubishi Electric Is First Company to Announce 16-Bit Scores
11 April 2000
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Is First Company to Announce 16-Bit Microcontroller Scores for EEMBC Automotive and Industrial Benchmark Suite
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--April 11, 2000-- The Electronic Device Group of Mitsubishi Electronics America, Inc., today announced that its parent, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, one of the world's leading suppliers of 16-bit microcontrollers, is the industry's first company to announce EDN Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) certified benchmark scores for a 16-bit microcontroller using the EEMBC automotive and industrial benchmark test suite. Mitsubishi's benchmark scores for its 16-bit microcontroller, the M16C/62 (M30624), were tested and verified by the independent EEMBC Certification Labs LLC (ECL) and are posted on the EEMBC website at http://www.eembc.org/. Mitsubishi is also among the first eight semiconductor companies to reveal EEMBC-certified benchmark scores today."Mitsubishi chose to reveal its M16C/62 automotive and industrial EEMBC benchmark scores to demonstrate its commitment to serve the needs of automotive and industrial customers," said Jack Sardegna, director of microcontroller business management at Mitsubishi Electronics America. "We believe our customers will find the EEMBC benchmark scores to be invaluable in helping them choose the ideal system configuration and compiler for their automotive/industrial applications."
The M16C/62 microcontroller incorporates the core features of Mitsubishi's M16C 16-bit microcontroller family that have key importance in automotive/industrial applications. The device provides a low typical current consumption of 30 mA (at 5 volts, 16 MHz) and a maximum standby current of only 1 uA. These features are especially beneficial in battery-backed industrial applications such as power meters and security systems, as well as sophisticated automotive systems, such as airbag control systems and antilock brake systems (ABS). The M16C/62 is designed for reduced electromagnetic interference (EMI) and electromagnetic susceptibility (EMS), which is important in automobiles because they typically have high ambient and circuit noise. The M16C/62 also has 256 Kbytes of on-chip flash memory, which allows in-circuit reprogrammability in serial, parallel, and CPU programming modes. The device has 20 Kbytes of RAM.
Originally introduced in 1996, Mitsubishi's M16C family is a line of compact, 16-bit microcontrollers that combine the advantages of both register and accumulator-based architectures to provide high-speed processing with RISC-like performance. Targeted for a wide range of applications, the M16C family features low power consumption, an easy-to-use instruction set, and an architecture that is optimized for C programming efficiency.
Mitsubishi's M16C microcontrollers are available in the high-end M16C/80 series, midrange M16C/60 series, and low-end, low-pincount M16C/20 series, which have gained wide industry acceptance and are used in a broad range of embedded systems applications.
About Mitsubishi Electric and Mitsubishi Electronics America
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation ranks among the top-five worldwide suppliers of 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers, is a founding member of EEMBC, and is a member of the USB Implementers Forum and the Smart Battery Implementers Forum. The company markets its microcontroller products in North America through the Electronic Device Group of Mitsubishi Electronics America Inc.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and its North American affiliate, Mitsubishi Electronics America Inc., are world-class suppliers of semiconductors and electronic products for computers, communications, industrial, Internet-enabled, automotive, and visual applications. Mitsubishi combines its systems-level expertise and high-level silicon process technologies to provide chip, chipset and system-on-chip solutions. The company is ranked among the top-tier worldwide semiconductor suppliers and offers an extensive range of semiconductor and computer system components for the North American marketplace, including embedded DRAM/flash/SRAM, ASIC, ASSP, MCU, discrete memory, graphics, microwave/RF, optoelectronic, storage, and flat-panel display products.
Additional information on the Mitsubishi Electric Semiconductor Group is available at http://www.mitsubishichips.com/.
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Keywords
Mitsubishi, EEMBC, microcontroller, MCU, M16C.