Freescale’s MPC5510 Automotive Microcontrollers

Oct, 2006. The Freescale’s MPC5510 family is the first line of 32-bit automotive MCUs featuring a dual-core architecture with flexible low-power modes. MPC5510 family supports extensive communications capabilities, including the FlexRay, CAN and LIN protocols.

Freescale’s MPC5510 automotive controller family is built on Power Architecture ™ technology . The MPC5510 family scales from single-core MCUs (with 384KB of embedded Flash, low pin count and reduced feature sets) up to 80MHz dual-core devices (e200z cores) with 1MB of Flash and advanced communications peripherals. This scalability enables developers to address a broad range of body electronics applications with a flexible platform architecture that extends to other members of the MPC55xx portfolio. Target applications include body control modules (BCMs), gateways (linking FlexRay to CAN and LIN networks), instrument cluster controllers, center stack display controllers and smart junction boxes.

Supported by a crossbar switch architecture and 16-channel enhanced DMA, Freescale’s dual-core design makes the MPC5510 family one of the most efficient, low-power 32-bit automotive MCUs in the market. The MPC5510 family also enables customers to migrate to higher levels of integration in central body electronics and connect the body electronics domain to a FlexRay network.

MPC5510 Automotive Microcontrollers Diagram Block

About FlexRay:

FlexRay protocol is expected to applied in  x-by-wire communication system such as brake-by-wire and steer-by-wire, to reduce need for hydraulic and mechanical control systems. FlexRay also can be applied in active and passive safety systems, collision avoidance systems, powertrain management systems and driver assistance systems. FlexRay data rate is 10 Mbits/sec, delivers approximately 20 times higher net bandwidth than the CAN protocol currently used in modern  automotive control applications.

FlexRay protocol key features:

• Time- and event-triggered communication schemes
• Support of fault-tolerant systems
• High error detection and error diagnosis capability
• Support of different network topologies for cost-effective and safety-enhanced partitioning of the system
• Dedicated automotive electrical physical layer with sophisticated power-down and wake up mechanisms
• Flexible extend-ability and full scalability to enable upgrades

Applications of  MPC5510 automotive microcontroller chips:

Body electronics  typically use the MPC5510 family products to integrate convenience and comfort features such as lighting, wipers, seats, windows, etc. This product family aims to reduce the number of modules in the car cockpits through higher integration of body electronics and gateway functions between CAN, LIN and FlexRayTM networks.

MPC5510 key features:

• Power ArchitectureTM Book E-compliant e200z1 core with Variable Length Encoding (VLE)
• Optional VLE-only 32/16-bit e200z0 secondary core
• 16 channel eDMA (enhanced Direct Memory Access)
• Memory Management Unit (MMU) with 4-entry translation look-aside buffer (TLB)
• Multiple low-power modes
• JTAG and Nexus Class 2+ debug support
• Up to 1MB of Flash with Error Correction Coding (ECC)
• The flash module features Read While Write (RWW) and small partitions for optimal bootloader and EEPROM emulation support.
• Up to 64KB of SRAM with ECC
• Memory Protection Unit (MPU) with up to 16 regions and 32-bytes granularity

You may also want to see the Freescale MPC5510 Fact Sheet.

Freescale also prepared some development tools for MPC5510 family:

• Compiler: CodeWarrior MPC55xx
• IDE (Integrated Development Environment): CodeWarrior MPC55xx

Availability:

Freescale is going to sampling  the MPC5510 family in first quarter of 2007. Package options: 144-pin LQFP and 208-pin MAPBGA. There will be SDK too for development of this automotive chips.

Source: Freescale

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You may also interested on other Freescale automotive product: MC9S12XS 16-bit MCU Family

The MC9S12XS family has 6 devices designed to give customers flexibility in choosing different memory, package and cost options to accommodate their application requirements.

The MC9S12XS family provides a cost-effective complement to the high-performance S12XE MCU family. Key features include 32MHz core and bus speed; 64KB, 128KB and 256KB Flash memory options, all with error correction code (ECC); 4KB to 8KB DataFlash with ECC, used for data or program storage; configurable 8- ,10- or 12-bit ADC capable of 3-microsecond conversion time; support for CAN, LIN and SPI protocols; and an 8-channel timer with 16-bit counters.

Package options include 48 QFN, 64 LQFP, 80 QFP, and 112 LQFP.

Freescale is going to sampling MC9S12XS family devices in first quarter of 2007.

Source: Freescale