Gleichmann NEC Newsletter

Issue 2/2006
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CONTENTS Newsletter Issue II
Thanks to the Help of NEC - Gleichmann Goes for Gold ...more 8-bit Microcontroller Family for Body Control Applications ...more New Voltage Starter Kit for Motor Control ...more ERTEC - Integrated Intelligent Switching ...more Enhancing the NEC TFT Line-up for Industrial Use...more It’s a Black and White Decision! Go Colour with CSTN Display...more Minimal Self Discharge and 40% Less Weight ...more New High Temperature Optocoupler ...more Personal Profile of Thomas de Laar – NEC Senior FSE for Gleichmann ...more Spotlights ...more

Thanks to the Help of NEC – Gleichmann Goes for Gold
The over 20 years of constant and successful co-operation between Gleichmann and NEC Electronics point to further success, and we are pleased to inform, that Gleichmann’s Pan-European Franchise with NEC has been extended to include Switzerland and all eastern european countries from april 1st 2006. The subsidiaries e.g. Gleichmann Electronics Schweiz AG and Gleichmann Electronics CZ s.r.o had been established end of last year and will put it’s focus in particular on “System LSI“ products of NEC (Microcontroller, ASICs, power MosFETs and opto coupler) and TFTs business. The customers in the „new“ countries are able to access, beside NEC components, all products of the Gleichmann Linecard (www.msc-ge.com). With the attached and regular appearing Gleichmann- Newsletter we will show to you, in co-operation with NEC, an overview of the latest products and present in parallel continuously the innovations of NEC:
E.G.: Worldwide smallest housing WCSP (1.9 x 2.2 mm) 32-bit V850 completely in Flash 8,4g TFT line and trans- flective models ASSPs for engine control, ASICs and SoC Lite+
We are glad to offer you the latest overview „NEC MCU Scout“ with all derivatives and the display-. yer „Field of Vision“. Please contact your regional Gleichmann/MSC sale office to get your copy.

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8-bit Microcontroller Family for Body Control Applications

	78K0F Series microcontrollers, based on a 0.15 µm flash process, are available in four different packages (44-pin to 80-pin) and 13 different memory options with up to 128 Kbytes (see 78K0/Fx2 features on page 2). To comply with the European RoHS directive allcontrollers have lead-free packages with NiPdAu plating. They tolerate operating temperatures up to 125° C to cope with the harsh automotive environment conditions. While the feature mix of 78K0F Series microcontrollers has been tailored to body control applications, the versatile and powerful peripherals of the devices also make them a good choice for chassis control and industrial applications that require a CAN-bus interface.

78K0 core now at 20 MHz!

The new 0.15 ìm flash process has significantly improved the speed of the 78K0 core. 78K0F Series microcontrollers operate at clock rates of up to 20 MHz resulting in a minimum instruction cycle time of 100 ns. While speed has increased, current consumption hasn’t: the typical supply current of an 80-pin FF2 controller with 128 K of memory is just 5.4 mA.

Sophisticated clock system

Four different clock units are implemented:

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Main clock unit driven by a standard crystal or ceramic resonatort
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32 kHz subclock unit (can be used to form a real-time-clock using the on-chip watch timer)
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High-speed 8 MHz onchipring oscillator
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Low-speed 240 kHz onchipring oscillator

Just 20 µs after release of an internal reset the controller starts operating using the internal 8 MHz clock. The internal low-speed ring oscillator (240 kHztyp.) cannot be used as CPU clock, but the window watchdog timer and one 8-bit timer can be operated from this clock. The window watchdog timer is thus independent of the external mainclock and consequently continues to operate if the crystal fails. This lowers the system cost because no external watchdog is needed even if a high level of safety is required (see block diagram). The 78K0 F Series also has a power-on clear (POC) and a low-voltage indicator (LVI) unit allowing further reduction of system cost.

Hardware multiplier on board In addition to the multiply and divide instructions supported by the 78K0 CPU core, F Series microcontrollers provide a hardware unit that performs 16 x 16-bit multiplications and 32 x 16-bit divisions. It takes just 0.8 ìs for a multiplication and 1.6 ìs for a division. This makes the 78K0 F Series an excellent choice for applications that require fast arithmetic capability that usually calls for a 16-bit controller. Plenty of timers Apart from watch timer and window watchdog timer, up to four 16-bit and four 8-bit timers are provided. All 16-bit timers can cope with a maximum input clock of 20 MHz. In other words, a resolution of 50 ns can be achieved. This is particular important if a PWM frequency outside the audible range, say greater than 20 kHz, needs to be generated. There are two kinds of 8-bit timer. The TMH timers operate in output compare mode only, for instance as interval timers or in PWM output mode. The TM50/51 timers additionally provide an event count mode. The TM50 timer can be concatenated with TMH0 to form another 16-bit timer.
	F Series in automotive networking Networking is nowadays a major topic in automotive applications. Apart from the established CAN standard, the demand for a low-cost network with reduced ‘protocol overhead’ and related hardware resulted in a UART-based LIN bus (Local Interconnect Network bus). Usually the LIN bus is a sub-network in a CAN environment and some kind of gateway to CAN is required. NEC Electronics has taken the trend of CAN to LIN gateway applications into account by implementing state-of-theart CAN and LIN interface units in the 78K0 F Series.
F Series development tools NEC Electronics provides off-the-shelf development tools such as software tools, in-circuit-emulators, . ash programmers and lowbudget tools like starter kits and on-chip debug emulators. The software development tools are based on IAR’s proven Embedded Workbench for 78K. To get acquainted with the F Series, NEC Electronics offers the ‘CAN it!’ demonstration kit. This demonstration kit includes a code-size-limited (4 Kbytes) version of the IAR Embedded Workbench.

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New Voltage Starter Kit for Motor Control
NEC Electronics will be announcing the release of its new starter kit for low voltage motor control applications (MC-LVKIT) this summer, a comprehensive and easy to use starter kit designed to support NEC’s exciting range of 8- and 32-bit motor control speci. c microcontrollers. Targeted speci. cally at motor control applications the MC-LVKIT is a complete evaluation kit which allows designers to demonstrate and evaluate the CPU and motor control functions of µPD78F0714 and V850ES/IK1 microcontrollers. Scalability guaranteed with the ability to add other microcontroller boards in the future including V850/KJ1+, V850E/IA4 and µPD78F0712. The hardware platform consists of a 12 V brushless DC motor; Low voltage inverter module, I/O board and a microcontroller board. The complete system can be connected to a PC via a serial interface or operated in stand alone mode. It is also capable of being connected to NEC’s software development tools for evaluation and debugging purposes.	The motor control starter kit
Low voltage inverter module The low voltage inverter module can be used for low voltage motor applications that require drive capability for motors up to 24 V. It can be used for evaluating 3-phase asynchronous or synchronous motor control applications. Input/output board The I/O board has on-board user interface hardware for operational control and signal conditioning between the MCU and the low voltage inverter module. With this modular approach, a user can easily evaluate NEC Electronics’ 8- and 32-bit motor control MCUs. Other features of the I/O board include: Potentiometer (to control the speed of the motor) Pushbutton switches that can be reprogrammed by the user (Start/stop, mode, forward, reverse) Four-digit, seven-segment LED display (used to display motor speed in RPM and other status information) RS-232 transceiver and optional DB9 connector (connected to a UART of the selected CPU) User prototype area Microcontroller board The 8-bit micro-board is designed for demonstration as well as in-depth evaluation of the CPU and on-chip peripheral functions of NEC Electronics’ ìPD78F0714 microcontroller. This micro-board can be operated in stand-alone mode to evaluate the main features of the MCU or it can be connected through two 100-pin connectors to the I/O board to evaluate the MCU’s dedicated 3-phase motor control peripherals. Likewise, the 32-bit micro-board can be used to manipulate the functions of the ìPD70F3329 microcontroller. The 8-bit micro-board benefits from a 20 MHz main clock and MCU I/O port connector that provides all I/O pins of the µPD78F0714. The micro-boards debug features allow access to Flash programming and standard debug functionality such as code execution, software breakpoints and memory manipulation by connecting the micro-board to our low-cost MINICUBE emulator (sold separately). The 32-bit micro-board uses the IECUBE emulator for similar functions. GUI software In addition to offering both in-depth evaluation and demonstration capabilities, the MC-LVKIT’s impressive hardware is coupled with a specially featured software package (with sample code) allowing a user to run a low voltage motor and tuning the code by changing the controller parameters from the PC graphical user interface software. The kit can also benefit from running in standalone mode from the PC GUI software. Applications Targeted applications for the starter kit include development of many consumer appliances such as cordless power tools, electric toothbrushes, shavers, trimmers, fans and other low power motor control applications. Flexibility Since all parts of the starter kit can be used either individually or collectively, users benefit from this and have the option to purchase complete kits or separate hardware components. Secure your low voltage starter kit by contacting your local NEC Electronics motor control sales representative now!

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ERTEC – Integrated Intelligent Switching
	NEC Electronics Europe have released two high speed Ethernet controllers that support the PROFINET Isochronous Real Time protocol (IRT). Designed for time-critical motion control applications the two ERTEC (Enhanced Real Time Ethernet Controller) devices provide the highest degree of intelligence in the smallest space with an integrated intelligent switch combined with a powerful ARM946E-S processor. The ERTEC 400 is an Ethernet controller with integrated 4-port switch and PCI interface tailored to the power requirements of motion control systems, while the ERTEC 200 is a lower cost controller with integrated 2-port switch and integrated Ethernet PHYs designed primarily for PROFINET IO devices such as drive or sensor interfaces. Data through-put is guaranteed as the performance matrix for the realtime communication allows control for up to 150 axis at a cycle time of 1 ms, with 6 megabytes per second of simultaneously transferable standard TCP/IP data. Based on the IEEE 802.3 transmission standard, the ERTEC devices support the PROFINET fieldbus protocol and time stamping according to IEEE 1588.
Flexible PROFINET is fully compatible with Ethernet TCP/IP standards, so it can easily integrate with IT systems or any fieldbus protocol through proxies, and not just PROFIBUS. PROFINET can handle data at three levels. The open TCP/IP channel enables 100 ms cycle times, the Real Time channel enables 5 – 10 ms cycle times and the Isochronous Real Time (IRT) channel enables cycle times below 1 ms. Isochronous real time support Isochronous means that the information delivered by an Ethernet frame to each network component occurs at precisely the same time in each cycle. This requires accurate synchronisation and very precise control of multiple synchronised data streams. The IRT channels exist side by side with the open TCP/IP channel by sharing the bandwidth and by marking the IRT frames with a special ‘Ethertype’ field. Using a time-slice system the IRT channel is divided into fixed time slots, each representing an end device. IRT time-slice techniques cannot be supported by standard Ethernet switches, so it requires dedicated hardware support which is provided by ERTEC’s embedded IRT switch. ERTEC devices can far outperform standard Ethernet switches and guarantee data throughput for hard real-time critical motion control devices and still leave 50% of the bandwidth for IT communication.
Deterministic The switch uses cut-through and store/forward Ethernet switching methods to move data around the network. When data arrives it is determined to be real-time or non real-time (using the Ethertype identifier part of the PROFINET frame) the device stores non real-time data for forwarding later and allows realtime data to cut through and exit ahead of non-real time data. This provides a secure method for priority passing of real-time data. Latency issues are also overcome by the switch as it allows connected devices to measure the latency between themselves and devices sending real-time data. The system becomes self-compensating and remembers latency figures and adds it to any real-time data received.	ERTEC - the FPBGA package
ERTEC versatility Beside their unique IRT switch architecture ERTEC 200/400 offer a set of popular interfaces to SDRAM, SRAM, Flash memory, static IO devices, UARTs, SPIs, external host controllers and PCI (only ERTEC 400). A large number of GPIO pins, . exible timers and many con. guration options help ERTEC 200/400 . t smoothly in almost any environment.
Development kits ERTEC development kits provide everything that is required to build up a PROFINET IRT communicationline: An ERTEC evaluation board and an industry standard PROFINET IRT controller communicate using a ready-to-use PROFINET IO device stack software. The use of TORNADO, the graphical IDE for the VxWorks OS allows customers to add their applications easily on top of the OS framework. This configuration allows shortest development cycles and minimum engineering resource consumption.

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Enhancing the NEC TFT Line-up for Industrial Use

Five new LCD modules are successor to core products of our line-up for industrial use, and each of these products realizes the improvement of visibility and usability by achieving wider viewing angle, faster response time and the wider operatingtemperature range than its predecessor product, even with maintaining the compatibility with it. Sample shipping of five new amorphous silicon thin-film-transistor (TFT) liquid crystal displays (LCDs) will begin by the end of June 2006.

1. NL8060BC31-41D 12.1" (31 cm diagonal) Supporting SVGA resolution Achieving a high visibility - High brightness of 400 cd/m2 and high contrast ratio of 600:1 - Wide viewing angles of 160‹ hor. and 140‹ vert. (CR 10:1) - Fast response time of 25 ms Boasting wide operating temperature range of -20‹C to +70‹C Supporting LVDS interface (RGB 8 bits each/6 bits each) Fully compatible to the thrieving NL8060BC31- 28D module	2. NL8060BC31-42 12.1" (31 cm diagonal) Supporting SVGA resolution Achieving a high visibility - High brightness of 400 cd/m2 and high contrast ratio of 600:1 - Wide viewing angles of 160° hor. and 140° vert. (CR 10:1) - Fast response time of 25 ms Boasting wide operating- temperature range of -20°C to +70°C Supporting CMOS interface (RGB 6 bits each) Fully compatible to the successful NL8060BC31- 27 module
3. NL6448BC33-63D 10.4" (26 cm diagonal) Supporting VGA resolution Achieving a high visibility - High brightness of 450 cd/m2 and high contrast ratio of 600:1 - Wide viewing angles of 160° hor. and 140° vert. (CR 10:1) - Fast response time of 25 ms Boasting wide operating temperature range of -20°C to +70°C First product of its type in the market, supporting LVDS interface (RGB 8 bits each/6 bits each)	4. NL6448BC33-64 10.4" (26 cm diagonal) Supporting VGA resolution Achieving a high visibility - High brightness of 450 cd/m2 and high contrast ratio of 600:1 - Wide viewing angles of 160° hor. and 140° vert. (CR 10:1) - Fast response time of 25 ms Boasting wide operating- temperature range of -20°C to +70°C Supporting CMOS interface (RGB 6 bits each) Fully compatible to the famous NL6448BC33-59 module
5. NL6448BC26-09 8.4" (21 cm diagonal) Supporting VGA resolution Achieving a high visibility - High brightness of 450 cd/m2 and high contrast ratio of 600:1 - Wide viewing angles of 160° hor. and 140° vert. (CR 10:1) - Fast response time of 25 ms Boasting wide operating- temperature range of -20°C to +70°C Supporting CMOS interface (RGB 8bits/6bits each) Fully compatible to the well running NL- 6448BC26-01 module	One of the new TFT-LCDs
Screens realizing high levels of visibility that enable clear display of a variety of information and facilitating ease of reading, are highly required in the industrial sector. In addition, they are required to display the screen accurately even in severe environment such as high temperature and/or low temperature. These kinds of requirements have been escalating in recent years rapidly due to the diversity of installation locations and environments where appliances are used. These new products respond to such requirements even with maintaining high compatibility with predecessor products enabling to replace and/or upgrade to the latest high-performance products.

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It’s a Black and White decision! Go COLOUR with CSTN Displays

Truly Semiconductor Ltd. and Gleichmann & CO. Electronics GmbH have been working together since 1997 on LCD solutions. During our last audit of the Truly factory in Shanwei (China) we saw that Truly are again expanding their resources for Colour Super Twisted Nematic (CSTN) Displays. Also, by developing “Ultra Thin CSTN Display Module” that utilises 0.4 mm glass and a special white LED Backlight unit, Truly have been able to reduce their small CSTN Displays to a thickness of 2.2 mm (about 30-45% thinner than last year).

1.47" CSTN
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Structure: LCD+IC+FPC+B/L
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Resolution: 128 x 128 Dots
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Display Mode: transmissive
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Outline Dimension: 40 mm x 33,80 mm
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Viewing Area: 29,90 mm x 29,30 mm
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Active Area: 26,87 mm x 26,10 mm
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Controller: S6B33B6X01-BOCY
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Colour: 65 K
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Interface type: parallel
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Backlight: white LED Backlight

1.51" CSTN
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Structure: LCD+IC+FPC+B/L
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Resolution: 128 x 128 Dots
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Display Mode: transmissive
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Outline Dimension: 41,64 mm x 33,35 mm
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Viewing Area: 30,17 mm x 28,30 mm
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Active Area: 28,15 mm x 26,10 mm
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Controller: S6B33B6X01-BOCY
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Colour: 65 K
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Interface type: parallel
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Backlight: white LED Backlight

1.72" CSTN
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Structure: LCD+IC+FPC+B/L
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Resolution: 128 x 160 Dots
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Display Mode: transmissive
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Outline Dimension: 46,70 mm x 34,70 mm
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Viewing Area: 36,04 mm x 30,54 mm
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Active Area: 34,07 mm x 227,25 mm
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Controller: S6B33B9X01-BOCY
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Colour: 65 K
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Interface type: parallel
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Backlight: white LED Backlight

Minimal self-discharge and 40% less weight
Lithium ion-manganese battery packs with capacities from 600 mAh up to 200 Ah are now extending the distribution portfolio of Gleichmann Electronics. The battery packs are developed and manufactured by Batterien-Montage- Zentrum (BMZ) and feature approximately 40% less weight compared to nickel cadmium or nickel metal hybrid battery packs. For example: a 14,4V-battery pack with 3 Ah of capacity has a weight of only 540 gram. Another advantage of the lithium ion manganese battery packs is that their full capacity remains available over 1000 charge and discharge cycles. Even after 1 year without usage these battery packs keeps nearly the full capacity; to discharge it without usage takes as long as 4 to 5 years. The specific energy of the lithium ion manganese battery packs of 90 Wh/kg to 120 Wh/kg is twice as high as the speci. c energy of nickel cadmium battery packs with a comparable capacity. These newly developed battery packs provide a nearly constant output voltage over the entire discharge period which extends the nominal voltage of 3,6V per battery pack. The environment-friendly lithium ion manganese battery packs are usable in the temperature range from -20°C to +70°C.

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New High Temperature Optocoupler
	NEC Electronics Europe have introduced a new transistor optocoupler with guaranteed operation up to 110° C ambient temperature. The PS2561B-1 series come in a plastic DIP package with a high isolation voltage of 5000 Vrms and is available as a through-hole version or a surface mount version. The extended temperature range makes it ideal for applications such as switched mode power supplies and factory equipment, and all applications where components are packed densely. CTR values are specified for 1 mA and 5 mA operating current. Output collector to emitter voltages up to 80 V can be applied and maximum current of 50 mA can be obtained. Available with full RoHS compliance and with the common international safety certificates UL, CSA, BSI, SEMKO, NEMKO, DEMKO, FIMKO and VDE. The new PS2561B-1, transistor optocoupler is available now. For price and delivery details please contact your Gleichmann sales team. Additional releases in smaller SOP and SSOP packages are scheduled for mid of year 2006 and will complete NEC’s high temperature transistor optocoupler line-up.

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Personal Profile of Thomas de Laar – NEC Senior FSE for Gleichmann

1996 - 2000
NEC EE - Technical Marketing SRAM

2000 - 2004
NEC EE - Marketing Microcontroller, 32-bit MCU and 64-bit MPU

2003/2004
NEC Leader Work Group - Introduction of Flash-only Micros in European Market

2005 - 2006
Elpida Memory - Sales & Marketing Low Power
DRAM for Mobile Phone customers

Since 2006
Back to NEC Senior FSE for Gleichmann
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Design Creation

Targets with Gleichmann
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Support Gleichmann as a "team member" to increase number of design wins to secure future billings
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Show close cooperation between NEC/Gleichmann in front of the customer
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Represent Gleichmann inside NEC

Personal
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Almost 40 years old (Oct 1966)
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Married

3 Kids / Triplets (Gregory, Audrey & Anthony)

Hobbies
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Managing our triplets
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Sport: Weight Lifting/ Jogging

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Low Pin Count web forum Visit our dedicated Low Pin Count web forum to discuss and access further information on LPC devices and tools. To celebrate the launch of this exciting forum we are giving you the chance to win 1 of 25 LPC DO-IT starter kits when you register (register now at www.LowPinCount.com).
Distributor of the Year 2005: Gleichmann Electronics has been awarded from battery specialist BMZ as distributor of the year 2005. Beside the fact that Gleichmann’s turnover with BMZ products doubled again from 2004 to 2005, Gleichmann’s absolute focus on design-in activities lead to the 2005 decision and finally to that fantastic award, Gleichmann MD Thomas Klein pointed out.

Gleichmann Electronics and Truly - your display partners for:
LCD Panels TN, HTN, STN, FSTN, CSTN Technology normal and wide temperature range LED Backlights: - white - blue - red - amber - yellow-green Connection methods: - zebra - metalpin - heatseal	Charactermodules 16 x 1 up to 40 x 4 characters x line/s STN, FSTN Technology COB, COG Module Normal and wide temperature range LED Backlights: - yellow-green - white - blue - red	Mono and colour STN modules 120 x 32 up to 320 x 240 Dots STN, FSTN, CSTN Technology COB, COG, TAB, COF Modules White LED or CCFL Backlight Backlight: white LED Backlight TFT-Displays 128 x 128 Dots up to 320x240 Dots COG Modules white LED


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