DZICS software platform combined with Renesas H8S/228 high-performance automotive instrument dedicated MCU
2007-07-27

The combination of H8S/228X high-performance automotive instrument dedicated MCU and DZICS software platform shortens instrument development cycle and reduces development costs through online programmable solutions.

H8S/228X is a typical automotive instrument dedicated MCU with comprehensive hardware resources, integrating 4 motor drives and 28X4 LCD display drivers into a single chip. It meets the requirements for signal acquisition of vehicle speed, rotation speed, fuel level, coolant level, pointer indication, as well as calculation and display of mileage and trip computer. It's a 16-bit MCU with automotive industrial-grade quality and high-speed computing capability. With the development of domestic automotive instrument technology and higher requirements for performance and reliability, the H8S/228X design solution shows significant advantages.

Embedding "DZICS software platform" in H8S/228X MCU greatly shortens the development cycle. As a general technical platform for automotive (motorcycle) applications, "DZICS software platform" should have maximum application flexibility, high reliability, and cost-effectiveness. It adopts a configurable programming approach to complete various instrument designs. That is, by modifying setting parameters through online debugging equipment to meet various functional requirements of instruments. For example: stepper motor/cross coil selection, various LCD output styles, adaptive matching of resistance/PWM signal source parameters, online pointer scale correction, etc., all without the need to rewrite software.

1. Direct drive for 28X4 LCD
2. Direct drive for 4 stepper motors/cross coils
3. PWM dimming output control
4. Trip computer calculation output
5. Programmable software control for arbitrary input signals corresponding to arbitrary scales