Date: 21/04/2009

NEC Electronics introduces dual core V850 architecture for 32-bit MCUs

NEC Electronics has launched a new V850E2M microcontroller architecture with dual-core for high reliability applications such as automotive and industrial automation systems. This is an extension of the company's V850 and V850E architectures with two 32-bit V850 CPU cores, with each delivering performance levels of 2.563 Dhrystone MIPS per MHz, at an impressive power consumption of 1.5mW per MIPS.

The V850E2M microcontroller core is also available as redundant core architecture. The redundant cores monitor each other at each instruction by executing the same program code and using the same data. Critical faults can therefore be detected at a very early stage by hardware, reducing the workload of the software designers to implement functional safety.



Availability: This core will be available for designs using NEC's ASIC in the 3rd quarter of 2009.