Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe has announced that it has added the MB9EF126 Calypso SoC to its FCR4 family. It is based on ARM's Cortex-R4 core and operates at up to 160MHz and has more than 200DMIPS processing performance. The SoC is designed for hybrid automotive instrument clusters. It contains intelligent support for up to six traditional gauges as well as the company's 2D graphics engine, Iris, to drive a colour display in the same cluster. The 2Mbyte of flash, 64kbyte of EEflash and 208kbyte of RAM are protected by ECC. There is also 2Mbyte of embedded graphics RAM. Comms interfaces support LIN, CAN, HS-SPI, I2S and Ethernet protocols. The set of timers includes a real-time clock, a sound generator, PWM and ADC channels. Autosar is supported via the MPU, a timing protection unit and the peripheral protection unit.
