PRODUCT INNOVATIONS
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8-bit microcontrollers enhance accuracy for automotive and industrial designs
Freescale Semiconductor has introduced the EL and SL microcontroller
(MCU) families to help embedded designers improve system performance in
automotive Local Interconnect Network (LIN) and general market
applications. Based on Freescale’s widely used S08 core, the EL
and SL families provide a highly integrated 8-bit solution designed to
reduce development time and cost.
The EL family offers increased memory and peripherals, while the SL family targets cost-sensitive applications. The 8-bit devices are ideal for developers requiring higher performance for a wide range of automotive LIN applications, such as light sensors, sunroofs, seat position motors, control panels and door locks.
The EL and SL devices feature embedded EEPROM, on-chip emulation/debug and an advanced embedded slave LIN interface controller (SLIC) module. Unique to Freescale, SLIC technology enhances system performance by automating message handling and is designed to outperform other MCU implementations for LIN slave applications. On-chip EEPROM helps reduce system cost and development time by enabling developers to manipulate diagnostic data at byte level, which provides finer granularity with smaller sector sizes than flash memory implementations.
Operating at up to 40 MHz, the EL and SL devices offer exceptional 8-bit performance with the fewest CPU interrupts of any comparable 8-bit LIN solution. The EL and SL MCUs offer scalable performance and pin compatibility across space-saving TSSOP packages.
EL32/16 and SL16/8 product features
The EL and SL families are supported by a rich ecosystem of Freescale and third-party hardware and software tools. Freescale’s CodeWarrior® Development studio for Microcontrollers v.6.2 offers a comprehensive tool suite that supports software development for future migration opportunities for 8-bit, 16-bit or 32-bit designs.
The EL family offers increased memory and peripherals, while the SL family targets cost-sensitive applications. The 8-bit devices are ideal for developers requiring higher performance for a wide range of automotive LIN applications, such as light sensors, sunroofs, seat position motors, control panels and door locks.
The EL and SL devices feature embedded EEPROM, on-chip emulation/debug and an advanced embedded slave LIN interface controller (SLIC) module. Unique to Freescale, SLIC technology enhances system performance by automating message handling and is designed to outperform other MCU implementations for LIN slave applications. On-chip EEPROM helps reduce system cost and development time by enabling developers to manipulate diagnostic data at byte level, which provides finer granularity with smaller sector sizes than flash memory implementations.
Operating at up to 40 MHz, the EL and SL devices offer exceptional 8-bit performance with the fewest CPU interrupts of any comparable 8-bit LIN solution. The EL and SL MCUs offer scalable performance and pin compatibility across space-saving TSSOP packages.
EL32/16 and SL16/8 product features
- Supports LIN 2.x and SAE J2602 protocols
- Integrated ADC provides fast and easy conversion of analog inputs with 2.5 microseconds conversion time
- Watchdog computer operating properly (COP)
- Low voltage protection, illegal status detection, flash block protection
- On-chip, in-circuit emulation (ICE) with real-time bus capture
- Up to 32KB flash, up to 1K RAM
- Up to 512B EEPROM
- Internal clock source (ICS)
- LIN Auto-Baud/Synch
- Improved LIN bus noise suppression to UART
- Number of interrupts reduced by up to 83 percent compared to UART solutions
- High-speed (up to 120 kpbs) programming through LIN for faster module manufacturing times and field re-programmability
- -40°C to 125°C operation
- Available in 20-lead and 28-lead TSSOP
The EL and SL families are supported by a rich ecosystem of Freescale and third-party hardware and software tools. Freescale’s CodeWarrior® Development studio for Microcontrollers v.6.2 offers a comprehensive tool suite that supports software development for future migration opportunities for 8-bit, 16-bit or 32-bit designs.
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