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NEC Electronics China Announces Collaboration between Industry and Academia for Official Shuttle Bus of Beijing Olympics
BEIJING, China, KAWASAKI, Japan, July 24, 2008
NEC Electronics announced that an electronic vehicle control system developed by Beijing Institute of Technology has been selected for 50 electric shuttle buses that will link the Athletes' Village to the venues of the Beijing Olympic Games. NEC Electronics (China) Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Electronics, supports research and development of the system at Beijing Institute of Technology.
The system will provide primary control of the shuttle buses' energy and operating modes, checking battery levels and automatically selecting one of three operating modes (rapid, slow, and safety) in accordance with remaining battery levels; as well as the controller area network (CAN), which controls such functions as failure diagnostics, displaying the locations of any failures that occur on a panel. Beijing Institute of Technology developed the software, which will run on a 32-bit NEC Electronics microcontroller, and implemented the system.
One of the concepts being put forth in the Beijing Olympics is "Green Olympics". In accordance with this concept, the city of Beijing is placing primary focus on the environment. It has been working for more than a year to green the city and clean the air. One of its measures to clean the air is the introduction of environmentally friendly electric buses. A fleet of 50 electric buses will form the official bus line linking the Athletes' Village to the venues during the Games.
NEC Electronics China has long been active opening joint research labs and holding technical seminars at universities throughout China, as part of its efforts to support the development of electronics engineers in this country. Beijing Institute of Technology was actively developing an electronic vehicle control system, and the two parties opened a joint research lab on the university campus in May 2006 for the research and development of electronic vehicle control systems. Subsequently, NEC Electronics China began offering the V850ES/FJ2 32-bit microcontroller with built-in CAN, which is a communication network for vehicles that is currently widely popular worldwide, as well as software development tools for the microcontroller. With the technical support of NEC Electronics China, Beijing Institute of Technology's joint research lab proceeded with the development of the system, using the microcomputer and development environment provided by the company.
As development proceeded, Beijing Institute of Technology was selected as lead developer for an electronic control system to control CAN communication on the electric buses used for the Beijing Olympics. The system being used in the electric buses at the Games is the product of this project. During the Games, NEC Electronics China and Beijing Institute of Technology will help provide comfortable transportation to the athletes and other people involved with the Olympics.
Both the company and university are confident that their jointly developed electronic control unit will gain broad popularity in China as a reference board for controlling CAN communication on electric buses.
The 32-bit microcontroller that will be used in the shuttle buses for the Beijing Olympics is produced at NEC Semiconductors Kyushu Yamaguchi, a manufacturing arm of the NEC Electronics Group. The company will also be sending athletes Satoko Suetsuna and Miyuki Maeda to the Olympics to compete in the women's badminton doubles; it is confident that both its microcomputer and athletes will shine at the Games.
About Beijing Institute of Technology
Beijing Institute of Technology was founded in 1940 (the school was renamed in 1998). This large university boasts 13 academic colleges (which have 47 departments and 43 research institutes and centers). It has 37,000 students, and 1,031 full-time professors.
About NEC Electronics
NEC Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) specializes in semiconductor products encompassing advanced technology solutions for the high-end computing and broadband networking markets; system solutions for the mobile handset, PC peripheral, automotive and digital consumer markets; and multi-market solutions for a wide range of customer applications. NEC Electronics Corporation has subsidiaries worldwide including NEC Electronics America, Inc. and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH. More information about NEC Electronics worldwide can be found at www.necel.com.
About NEC Electronics China
NEC Electronics (China) Co., Ltd. a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Electronics, was established in 1998. NEC Electronics China is headquartered in Beijing and has 6 other sales offices in China including Hong Kong. Main product of NEC Electronics China is Microcontrollers, LSIs for digital AV, and discrete semiconductors.
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