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Volume 51 (Feb 01, 2006)
Great Expectations for V850 "All Flash" Microcontrollers (1/3)
Nearly a year ago, NEC Electronics formally announced that it would aim to become the first company in the industry to shift its entire lineup of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) to "All Flash". Then, in September 2005, the company declared that it would also be transitioning all 33 of its high-performance 32-bit V850™ series products to "All Flash".
With an impressively high CPU performance of 29 MIPS/20 MHz, V850 "All Flash" MCUs enable 16- and 32-bit MCU users to develop software more cost-effectively, reduce power consumption more efficiently and increase code efficiency more reliably.
Likewise, the solutions provided by NEC Electronics' partner companies are indispensable to designers seeking to take advantage of the numerous benefits of V850 "All Flash" MCUs. NEC Electronics' key partner companies in the embedded systems industry already have indicated that they are committed to making their products compliant with NEC Electronics' V850 "All Flash" MCUs. This article presents excerpts of interviews with representatives from two of these companies: Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation and GAIO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation: developing new products compliant with V850 "All Flash" MCUs
Providing a broad spectrum of solutions, including emulator "advice" tools, development tools such as the MicroVIEW-G debugger, flash programming tools (programmers), ARM development tools and consulting services, Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation has made significant contributions to the embedded systems industry for many years. We asked Kenichiro Hisano (division manager, Device Division) and Hideyuki Watanabe (development center chief) to tell us about their company's flash programming tools, how they intend to make them compliant with V850 "All Flash" MCUs, and the expectations they hold for these microcontrollers.
GAIO TECHNOLOGY: Achieving fast compliance with V850 "All Flash" MCUs — In as little as just one week —
GAIO TECHNOLOGY has been providing embedded software development solutions for more than 20 years, and currently offers a wide range of development tools, including prototyping and verification tools. The company already has released tools specially designed for V850 "All Flash" MCUs, and since those released thus far primarily consist of software tools, they can be adapted quickly for use with V850 series products set to be commercialized in the future. We sat down with Yoji Iwai, GAIO's operating officer and general overseer of business promotion and sales, to discuss his company's plans for making its tools compliant with V850 "All Flash" MCUs, and the expectations he and his colleagues hold for these microcontrollers.
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