LOYTEC and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH Join Forces in Building Automation

LOYTEC electronics GmbH with its headquarters in Vienna, Austria and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH with its headquarters in Düsseldorf, Germany announced the joint development of a high performance low cost micro controller for networked devices in building automation.

Based on NEC Electronic’s SoCLite+ architecture a system on chip (SoC) solution for products in the area of ANSI/EIA-709, ANSI/EIA-852, and BACnet networks is beeing developed under the name LC3k. Powered by the ARM7TDMI-S™ 32-bit RISC CPU core of SoCLite+, LC3k offers enough performance to meet today’s and future demands in a networked building. A 10/100BaseT Ethernet port and the integrated LOYTEC L-Chip provide connectivity in Ethernet and EIA-709 networks. LC3k further integrates an LCD controller for TFT and STN displays, 2 UARTs, SSI, and freely programmable digital I/O pins.

The development of LC3k is dedicated to the requirements of the end user. LOYTEC offers a state of the art integrated development environment for LC3k based on the open tool platform Eclipse (www.eclipse.org). LC3k uses the open real-time multi-tasking operating system RTEMS (www.rtems.org). The ORION protocol stack together with the L-CNIP library from LOYTEC guarantee the highest performance in ANSI/EIA-709 and ANSI/EIA-852 networks. The BSD TCP/IP protocol stack integrated into RTEMS and the open source WEB server from goahead (www.goahead.com) allow perfect communication over the Ethernet network.

Hans-Jörg Schweinzer, president of LOYTEC is convinced: “The technology partnership with NEC Electronics brings us into a position to develop an optimized platform for intelligent networked devices for the building automation market. With a steady worldwide market growth of 6%, building automation is our target market for LC3k. Buildings become more intelligent and demand powerful solutions. With LCk3 we take an important step in the right direction.”

Dr. Ulrich Giese, General Manager for the Semiconductor & Display Business Unit for NEC Electronics Europe receives, in the close cooperation with LOYTEC electronics, the confirmation that the SoCLite+ concept is the optimum solution for the demanding markets of industrial and building automation.

About LOYTEC

LOYTEC is a leading European provider of network analysis tools and network infrastructure products for the growing building automation market. With our core technologies L-Chip, ORION protocol stack (ANSI/EIA 709.1), and L-CNIP (CEA/EIA-852) we offer an open platform for flexible, robust, high performance networking with IP and EIA-709 networks. From our headquarters in Vienna, Austria we offer products and design services to all our customers around the world. Strong partnerships with leading companies in the IT and automation market together with intensive research work with universities shape our portfolio to meet the requirements of our customers. For more information visit www.loytec.com.

About NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH

NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH, headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany, is a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of semiconductor products in Europe. Committed to meeting customers' cost, performance and time-to-market requirements, the company offers solutions ranging from standard products to system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions, as well as customized products for next-generation designs. NEC Electronics also offers customers the benefit of state-of-the-art manufacturing locally in Europe, besides the global production of its parent company, NEC Electronics Corporation. Additionally, NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH is the exclusive European sales and marketing channel of LCD and PDP modules from NEC LCD Technologies Ltd.. For more information visit http://www.ee.nec.de/soclite+.

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