Sharp Ships 16/32-Bit BlueStreak MCUs

By Bernard Cole
iApplianceWeb
(08/21/02, 12:25:14 AM EDT)

Camas, Wash. -- - Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas (SMA) has started shipping highly integrated,16/32-bit products from its BlueStreak family of microcontrollers (MCUs) to beta customers in the industrial and mobile iappliance markets.

Including the LH75401, these BlueStreak MCUs drive color or grayscale LCD displays and support CAN 2.0B connectivity.

Based on the 32 bit ARM7TDMI core, the 16/32-Bit family includes four specialized BlueStreak MCUs. Two of the BlueStreak MCUs include CAN 2.0b. The LH75401 includes CAN with a Color LCD Controller and the LH75400 includes CAN with a grayscale LCD Controller. CAN is a robust protocol ideal for implementing command, control, and communications in electrically noisy environments, such as industrial control applications. For applications not utilizing CAN, SMA offers the LH75411 with a Color LCD Controller and the LH75410 with a Grayscale LCD Controller.

The Color LCD Controllers on the LH75401 and LH75411 support a wide range of LCD displays (STN, CSTN, TFT) including SHARP's Highly Reflective TFT (HR-TFT) with up to 4096 colors.

Other key features included within the family are a 10-bit Analog to Digital Converter with integrated touch screen controller, 32KB of on-chip SRAM, a Vectored Interrupt Controller to speed the serving of interrupts, three UARTs, SSP, three 16-bit Counter/Timers with capture & compare logic, Watchdog Timer and Low Voltage Detector. All parts operate up to 50 MHz at 3.3 V over the industrial temperature range of -40 C to +85 C.

The LH75400, LH75401, LH75410 and LH75411 are scheduled for production in October with samples available next month.

For more information, go to www.sharpsma.com