25 April 2008

NXP Takes EDN Award With ARM7 Based MCU

NXP Semiconductors, a member of the ARM Connected Community, has been awarded the Innovative Product of the Year Award for Microcontrollers and Cores by EDN Magazine for its ARM7 based LPC2478 MCU.

The NXP LPC2478 microcontroller is  an ARM7 flash-based MCU featuring two ARM high-speed buses (AHB). Dual AHB buses enable the chip to handle the simultaneous operation of multiple high-bandwidth peripherals including 10/100 Ethernet, USB host/On-The-Go/device, integrated LCD (QVGA) and two CAN channels.

Launched in 1990 the EDN awards program honors outstanding electronic products and technologies that have shaped the semiconductor industry over the past year.

“The EDN Innovation Award is significant because it is voted on by a jury of peers, representing a worldwide audience of electronics engineers. It’s a great reflection on our company and the team is extremely excited about this win. We look forward to ongoing success in developing state-of-the-art embedded solutions and providing our customers the broadest ARM MCU offering available,” said Geoff Lees, vice president and general manager, microcontroller product line, NXP Semiconductors.

“Every year the difficulty of technical challenges increases; the pressures of schedule, cost, and energy efficiency grow; and the resources available to design teams dwindle. That makes the achievements of this year’s EDN Innovation Award winners all the more impressive,” added Ron Wilson, executive director of EDN Worldwide. “Selected by their peers in the design community for their outstanding results, these innovators stand in the front rank of the best and brightest electronics engineering has to offer.”

The LPC2478 also features 512 kbytes of flash that supports 128-bit accesses and a memory accelerator that enables the system to execute serially from flash directly at full speed, up to 72 MHz, without having to move the code into RAM. Offering significant savings in cost, area and power consumption, the LPC2478 is ideal for a wide range of industrial, consumer, retail and medical systems using LCD panels and requiring network or Internet connectivity.