NEC Electronics Europe announces the release of the 78K0/Kx2-L Save it! demonstration kit, supporting the 78K0/Kx2-L MCU family. The 78K0/Kx2-L Save it! demonstration kit is an extension of NEC Electronics’ high-performance All Flash product line targeted for low power applications, which supports on-board debugging and Flash programming. The board, which can be connected to a PC via a USB connection, contains hardware elements such as several push and DIP switches, switches for operation mode setting, 7-segment LED as well as a phototransistor which acts as a luminance sensor, all there to easily demonstrate simple I/O functions or peripheral operation. In addition, the board has a connection facility to external user hardware for custom tests. It also provides a user-friendly power consumption and frequency demonstration GUI that allows the user to monitor the current internal oscillator frequency and the operating current, as well as to check the luminance of the environment thanks to the on-board phototransistor.

The 78K0/Kx2-L Save it! Demonstration kit is built on the ultra low power 48-pin 78K0/KC2-L 8-bit with 32 KB of Flash and 1 KB of RAM, which offers fully-implemented on-chip peripherals. One of its main features is a highly accurate internal oscillator circuit with selectable clock speed of 4 MHz or 8 MHz at better than +/-2% accuracy whilst completely removing the need for an external clock circuit. It also includes innovative new analog circuitry which has been implemented on-chip, including accurate and high-speed A/D converters that work across the entire supply voltage range, and on-chip operational amplifiers. 78K0/Kx2-L consumes 220 microampere  at 1 MHz operation, 0.58 uA in Stop mode with the Watchdog running on the internal 30 KHz oscillator, or just 0.15 uA for the RTC.