NXP Semiconductors, the newly independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today announced the industry’s first high-speed, high-performance 1.8V UART family that supports the VLIO™ bus specification from Marvell® as well as Intel and Motorola bus interfaces. The stand-alone 1.8V UART family from NXP features the smallest packaging currently available on the market. Running at 5Mbps and featuring a 128 byte FIFO, the four devices in the new NXP 1.8V UART family fully support advanced connectivity interfaces such as Bluetooth Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) and are perfect for next-generation portable devices running on 1.8V processors.

 

“The NXP 1.8V UART provides a seamless connection to Marvell’s PXA3xx application processor family via the VLIO bus interface,” said Gary Forni, director, Platform Enabling, Cellular and Handheld Business Unit, Communications and Consumer Business Group at Marvell. “With this high-speed, high-performance 1.8V UART family, NXP has delivered innovation to the interface market for applications requiring high speed options running on Marvell PXAxx platforms.”

 

“To meet the demands of emerging connectivity standards and next-generation portable devices running on 1.8V processors, our customers requested higher-performance, low-power UARTs.” said Dhwani Vyas, general manager, PL Interface Products, Business Line Standard ICs, NXP Semiconductors. “The NXP 1.8V UART family exceeds our customers’ connectivity and performance demands thanks to its 5Mbps data rate, 128 byte FIFO, and support of all major bus interfaces.”

 

The NXP 1.8V UART family is available in a TFBGA packaging that is only 3.5x3.5 to deliver the industry’s smallest UART form factor and allow for smaller designs of handheld devices. All devices in the family fully support Bluetooth EDR data rates, which only require 3Mbps at 1.8V while the family runs at 5Mbps. As an added benefit, the NXP 1.8V UART family provides long-distance communications through its automatic RS485 feature and ensures short-range wireless capabilities with its embedded IrDA encoder. These capabilities make the NXP 1.8V UART family ideal for portable devices such as smartphones, handheld gaming and GPS modules that need to interface with Bluetooth EDR and wireless modems.

 

About the NXP 1.8V UART Family
The NXP 1.8V UART family consists of four devices. The NXP SC16C850V and SC16C850L are one-channel UARTs, while the NXP SC16C852V and SC16C852L are two-channel UARTs. The NXP SC16C850V and SC16C852V support the VLIO interface while the NXP SC16C850L and SC16C852L support Intel or Motorola interfaces. In addition, all of the UARTs offer a fractional divider that allows an existing system clock to be used rather than an external crystal.

 

Availability
The NXP 1.8V UARTs are available immediately. More information about the NXP 1.8V UART family can be found at: www.nxp.com/interface.

 

About NXP
NXP is a top 10 semiconductor company founded by Philips more than 50 years ago. Headquartered in the Netherlands, the company has 37,000 employees working in 20 countries across the world. NXP creates semiconductors, system solutions and software that deliver better sensory experiences in mobile phones, personal media players, TVs, set-top boxes, identification applications, cars and a wide range of other electronic devices. News from NXP is located at www.nxp.com.

 

About Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is the leader in development of storage, communications and consumer silicon solutions. Marvell’s diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless, and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure, including enterprise, metro, home, and storage networking. As used in this release, the term “Marvell” refers to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries, including Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. (MSI), Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (MAPL), Marvell Japan K.K., Marvell Taiwan Ltd., Marvell International Ltd. (MIL), Marvell U.K. Limited, Marvell Semiconductor Israel Ltd. (MSIL), RADLAN Computer Communications Ltd., and SysKonnect GmbH. MSI is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and designs, develops and markets products on behalf of MIL and MAPL. MSI may be contacted at 408-222-2500 or at www.marvell.com.

 

 

- ENDS -

Marvell® is a trademark of Marvell. All other trademarks are property of their respective companies.

 

Forward-looking Statements
This release may contain certain forward-looking statements with respect to the financial condition, results of operations and business of NXP Semiconductors and certain plans and objectives of NXP with respect to these items. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future and there are many factors that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.