NEC Electronics announces 78K0R starter kit COOL-IT!

Supporting the recently launched 78K0R/Kx3 16-bit microcontroller family

DUESSELDORF (Germany), February 12, 2007 — NEC Electronics Europe announces the availability of the 78K0R/Kx3 COOL-IT starter kit, supporting the recently launched 78K0R/Kx3 16-bit microcontroller family. COOL-IT! adds to the existing range of microcontroller starter kits from NEC Electronics, designed to deliver customers with a complete out-of-the-box experience when selecting an appropriate microcontroller.

The 78K0R/Kx3 series of 16-bit microcontrollers deliver a class leading combination of both high performance, and low power consumption. Designers of 8-bit applications can benefit by upgrading to a higher performance microcontroller without significant increases in power consumption. Designers of existing 16-bit applications can significantly reduce power consumption and therefore increase battery life.

With a range of 44 devices in 64 to 144 pin packages, and 64 KB to 512 KB of SuperFlash® Flash memory from Silicon Storage Technology, Inc., designers have the ability to choose the best microcontroller for the job at hand.

The COOL-IT kit includes the 100-pin 78K0R/KG3 device with 256KB of Flash and 12KB of RAM. Several peripheral functions are also mounted on the board including a 224 segment LCD display with integrated display controller, 4-way mini joystick, DIP switches, potentiometer, buttons, and a prototyping area. In addition users can program the device through the on-board USB port. The kit also contains a 4KB code limited version of the IAR Embedded Workbench software development tools and several simple demonstration programs.
COOL-IT! is competitively priced at 24.99 Euros and is available from most NEC franchised distributors or from NEC Electronics Europe directly. For more information please click here

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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 peripherals, automotive and digital consumer markets, and platform solutions for a wide range of customer applications. NEC Electronics Corporation has 24 subsidiaries worldwide including NEC Electronics America, Inc. (www.am.necel.com) and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH (www.eu.necel.com). For additional information about NEC Electronics worldwide, visit www.necel.com.

About Sunrise

Sunrise Electronics is the only dedicated franchised distributor in the UK electronics market and provides a high level of technical design support to customers for the whole range of NEC semiconductor products including microprocessors, microcontrollers and ASICs as well as memory and colour LCD panels. The field sales team is technically qualified to ensure total support from design concept through to purchasing.

Sunrise is a direct ship distributor. The majority of shipments are delivered directly to customers from NEC’s own ISO9000 warehouse. This ensures reduced handling, correct packaging; especially for fine pitch surface mount devices requiring vacuum sealing, factory fresh product and timely deliveries.