OREANDA-NEWS. May 31, 2012. Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited today announced the addition of new products to its "New 8FX" family of high-performance 8-bit microcontrollers, including 9 products from the 48-pin MB95690 Series, which includes brushless DC motor control functionality, and 6 products from the 64-pin MB95810 Series, which features analog comparator technology. Sample quantities of these new products will begin shipping from June 2012.

The MB95690 Series and MB95810 Series are being offered as low-cost, low-power main microcontroller options for a wide range of applications in both Japanese and foreign products, including applications such as cooking appliances, home electronics, personal care products, power tools, and office automation equipment.

Brushless DC motors are employed in cooking appliances, such as microwaves and food processors; office appliances, such as printers and photo copiers; and personal care products, such as hair dryers and electric razors. While superior in terms of both noiselessness and long life expectancy, these motors account for a significant percentage of a product’s overall cost, and there is significant demand for lower cost microcontrollers for controlling brushless DC motors.

In addition to brushless DC motor control, there is also considerable need for supporting relatively high-end products that require fine-grained system control, such as temperature sensors, light sensors, and other applications that monitor a variety of environmental parameters surrounding a device.

Moreover, with increasing focus in recent years on lowering the electric power consumed by electronics products, there is growing demand to reduce power consumption as much as possible during normal operation and standby.

The MB95690 Series meets these demands. It is a power-efficient microcontroller in a 48-pin package with 60KB of built-in flash memory that, in addition to brushless DC motor control functionality, includes various timers and communications functions that are useful for general-purpose applications as well as peripheral circuits, such as an analog comparator with reference voltage. The MB95690 Series enables a reduction in the number of system components and can also run large scale processing programs. It can be used as a power-efficient system management microcontroller for system and power management, or it can be used as a sub-microcontroller for added functionality in response to specification changes. Samples of the 9 new products in this Series will begin shipping in June.

At the same time, samples of 6 new products in the MB95810 series will also begin shipping in June. With 60KB of flash memory capacity in a 64-pin package, it is also equipped with peripheral circuits, such as up to 12 channels of high-precision A/D converters and an analog comparator with reference voltage.