Loytec, NEC Team on Automation

DÜSSELDORF, Germany and VIENNA -- The LOYTEC electronics GmbH with its headquarter in Vienna, Austria and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH with its headquarter 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 (LonTalkÒ), ANSI/EIA-852 (LonTalk over IP), and BACnet networks is beeing developed under the name LISA.

Powered by the ARM7TDMI-S™ 32-bit RISC CPU core of SoCLite+, LISA 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 LonWorks networks. LISA further integrates an LCD controller for TFT and STN displays, 2 UARTs, SSI, and freely programmable digital I/O pins.

The development of LISA is dedicated to the requirements of the end user. LOYTEC offers a state of the art integrated development environment for LISA based on the open tool platform Eclipse (www.eclipse.org). LISA 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 LISA. Buildings become more intelligent and demand powerful solutions. With LISA 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.

NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH

Loytec Electronics GmbH