Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd

Fujitsu announces World’s first Embedded 90nm Graphic Display Controller for Automotive Applications

High- and low-end devices extend the largest GDC roadmap in the industry for in-car Multimedia

Singapore, 27 March, 2006  — Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd (FMAL) today announced the launch of two Graphic Display Controllers (GDCs) designed for the embedded automotive market, including the world’s first controller for this sector to be fabricated in 90nm technology. The two GDCs have been developed in response to customer requests for Fujitsu to enhance its extensive GDC roadmap at both the higher and lower ends.

MB86297 GDC is the third generation of high-end graphics products developed by Fujitsu, incorporating a brand new design that offers more than ten times the performance of its previous highest end GDC. This 90nm device is fabricated in Fujitsu’s own foundry at Mie, Japan and was developed to ensure that Fujitsu can provide an industry-leading solution for demanding automotive functions such as high-end graphics and multimedia applications.

The controller offers excellent 3D performance – up to 10Mpolygons/s; the highest rendering performance available in the embedded market, and the OpenGL ES 1.1 Standard for Embedded Accelerated Graphics is fully supported. The device can display resolutions of up to 1280 x 1024, and has a fully independent dual display output. It features excellent expansion options that include a DDR-SDRAM interface for the addition of up to 128MB graphic memory and a PCI66 host interface.

MB86276 GDC is also a new device manufactured specifically for price optimisation, providing a low-end extension to Fujitsu’s GDC roadmap. The 0.18μm device is an ideal solution for lower-end automotive applications that do not require 3D functions. Although it is aimed at the lower end of the market, the device offers advanced features, such as accelerated 2D functions. Dual RGB digital output is supported and the device displays resolutions of up to 1280 x 768. A range of connection options are available, including a 32/16-bit embedded host interface, GPIOs, I2C interface and an external SDRAM interface for the addition of up to 64MB of memory.

In line with Fujitsu’s full range of Graphic Display Controllers, both products are fully binary compatible – unlike the spot products offered by others in the market. The devices offer universal connectivity to all MCUs and other CPUs, with a wide variety of operating system drivers available, as well as several unique features, including video inputs.

Fujitsu’s extensive roadmap and the excellent scalability of all devices in the series mean that products are interchangeable, allowing customers to move to higher- or lower-end devices without having to make major software changes. Although MB86297 and MB86276 have been developed with the Automotive market in mind, they are also suitable for a range of other markets that include Avionics, Marine, Medical, Industrial, POS, Surveillance and Console-Gaming.

Both MB86297 and MB86276 are housed in BGA packages. They are available for sampling now and will be in full, 100k a month production, by the middle of 2006. The devices will be offered at competitive prices, with full engineering support from Fujitsu’s GDC application team.

Fujitsu continues to invest heavily in research and development to further expand its range of GDCs to offer its customers the widest variety of solutions. The company is already working on derivations of these two products to offer more functionality; a GDC featuring a CPU is in planning as well as one with additional media functions.

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About Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd

Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd was established as the Asia Pacific Headquarters of Fujitsu Limited Electronic Devices Group in 1986. It provides support, sales and marketing of semiconductors and electronic devices to the Asia Pacific region, including India and Oceania.
Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia offers a wide and varied product range like ASIC, ASSPs, Microcontrollers / Microprocessors (FR-V), System Memory (Flash Memory / FRAM / FCRAM) and System LSIs (DVD MPEG Source Decoders / MPEG –2 Encoders).

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