Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc.

The Industry's Most Complete FlexRay Evaluation Kit Now Available from Fujitsu; Enables FlexRay Hardware Design, Verification Prior to Silicon

Sunnyvale, CA, September 2, 2005 — Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. (FMA) today announced the availability of a complete, easy-to-use FlexRay™ Evaluation Kit, a development platform that enables the design and verification of early-stage FlexRay hardware and software applications.

"FlexRay is the ideal architecture for meeting the high-bandwidth, deterministic, and redundant communications requirements for applications such as drive-by-wire, which replaces mechanical control with CPU-generated commands," said Akio Nezu, FMA's senior marketing manager for embedded products. "Our new evaluation kit is a comprehensive platform developed specifically to allow early adopters to move forward with FlexRay designs, quickly and with complete confidence."

The kit consists of several boards – a CPU board, a FlexRay main board, an FPGA daughter board, and a FlexRay driver daughterboard. The FPGA daughterboard integrates the FlexRay engine on an Altera FPGA conforming to the E-RAY specification version 2.0 proposed by Bosch, and along with a version 2.1 compliance update offer for customers. The daughter board is replaceable with a FlexRay ASSP daughter board which will be available when Fujitsu introduces its FlexRay controller ASSP.

The FPGA-based communication controller is supplied with an 80MHz oscillator. The host CPU board includes a Fujitsu 32-bit microcontroller, the MB91F369G, which provides 512KB of Flash and 24KB RAM on-chip memory. To meet the large memory demands of the development phase, the board also offers 1MB of external Flash for code and constant data. External 2MB RAM is included for debugging. The board comes equipped with a RS-232 driver and DB9 connector for the on-chip UART. A one-channel CAN transceiver for the on-chip CAN controller is also included, for developing a CAN-based system, an excellent environment for gateway application development.

The new kit's main board is used as baseboard, providing a plug-in for the daughterboard with the FlexRay engine, along with two physical layer modules that incorporate FlexRay transceivers. The main board also has RS485 bus drivers, which provide sockets that enable the use of third-party FlexRay-compliant drivers. The main board can be used as a standalone FlexRay controller, which can be interfaced to any CPU using an external bus interface.

The kit's software package includes a communication stack, which meets production requirements, and a license valid for evaluation purposes or prototype development of FlexRay products. In addition, the sample software features a complete communications example to help designers get their projects started.

"This comprehensive package meets all the design requirements for developing FlexRay applications," Nezu said. "It reflects the company's global commitment to the FlexRay automotive standard, and our leadership in the technology."

Availability
The Evaluation Kit is available now in the U.S. For additional information, contact the nearest sales office or your sales representative, http://us.fujitsu.com/micro/sales

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