Fuel cells

• ST will showcase its latest research and development in fuel cells targeted to meet the demand for new battery technologies that are being driven by next-generation mobile applications offering advanced multifunctional capabilities. ST, in cooperation with its partners, is developing ultra-small hydrogen-based fuel cells that deliver high power density (mW/cm²). On the booth, ST will demonstrate the charging of a battery in an end application with the prototype system, which integrates an FCCU (Fuel Cell Core Unit) and an EMU (Energy Management Unit)

MEMS

• ST will demonstrate a TV remote controller that uses a gyroscope sensor to detect angle displacement of the TV remote, allowing it to operate TV screen menus. Gyro sensors are used for a wide range of applications, such as digital cameras, game machines, robots and in automotive. Precise measurements of angle displacement are achieved by combining the moving element of the device, which is equipped with the capacitance interface for driving and detection, with a dedicated signal-processing IC, and applying the principle of the coriolis force.
• For accelerometers, ST will demonstrate a3-axis digital accelerometer, mounted in a 3´3mm package. The accelerometer has a resolution of 12 bits, which has been improved from the 8 bits of conventional accelerometers, and achieves detection with a higher degree of accuracy. The device also includes a sleep mode, as a new function that contributes to a reduction in power consumption of the entire system. ST will also show the FC30 functional MEMS sensor, which enables positional detection in six directions, as well as a pressure sensor with compact and thin-film structure, manufactured using ST’s VenSense process.
• In addition, ST will show its bio-MEMS solutions based on the advanced microfluidics technology expected to be applied in the medical, pharmaceutical and biological fields. On the booth, for the first time in Japan, ST will display VereFlu™, the fast detection kit for influenza, jointly developed by ST and Veredus Laboratories and commercialized in March 2008. VereFlu is the first product in the market that integrates the two powerful molecular biological applications: ST’s In-Check™ laboratory-on-chip platform and Veredus’s bio-application, into a fingertip-sized laboratory-on-chip.

Consumer

• In digital TV (DTV), ST will demonstrate a DTV solution that integrates a decoder IC and a video processing IC to project actual video images on a display. ST is proposing a revolutionary solution by combining its products with those of Genesis Microchip, which ST acquired in February 2008. Also on the booth, ST will introduce the high-grade DTV solution that integrates the H.264 decoder IC STi7101 and Douglas (FL106xx), which includes a high-definition video processing function based on the Faroudja DCDi™/MCTi™ technologies, as well as the low-price DTV solution that integrates the SD MPEG2 decoder IC and the low-price video processing controller.
• ST will also show many further DTV demonstrations including an AV receiver (AVR) solution that conforms to various audio and video I/O standards and has selectable multiple inputs, as well as the integrated STi7109single-chip video decoder, which adopts advanced technology for HD low-bit-rate broadcasting supporting the H.264/AVC, MPEG-2 and VC-1 advanced video decoding standards,
• In displays, for the first time in Japan, ST will exhibit and demonstrate a DisplayPort^™ interface IC, which is the new digital display interface targeting the HD digital market. DisplayPort is the open unified standard established by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) for substituting DVI and LDVS. Due to connectivity to multiple displays, it can construct a multi-display environment more easily than ever before. It can also transmit video and audio signals using HDCP.
• ST will also demonstrate the one-chip LED backlight drivers, LED7706 / LED7707 / PM6600, which are effective for applications of large- and medium-sized displays, such as digital TVs, PCs and panels used in factory automation. These three products supply a current of 30 or 85mA to each row of up to 60 white LEDs (10 in series ´ 6 in parallel). To reduce the number of parts, they contain MOSFETs and minimize the filter components by the step-up switching operation at a maximum of 1MHz.

ECO House

• ST will introduce the “ECO House” system that conceptually realizes the low-carbon society and contributes to the prevention of global warming. The concept of the ECO House is to accomplish the reduction of whole-house power consumption through the IC itself and software settings, as well as reduction of power consumption of the entire house through monitoring and control of power consumption via a home network. On the booth, ST will demonstrate how the ST products build the ECO House system into an actual house.

Sensors

• ST will exhibit hardware-based touch sensor technology for the sensing functions of consumer devices. The sensor needs no microcontroller and thus realizes space saving and cost reduction. It is an optimum sensor for touch-key applications, such as digital cameras, televisions, PCs, and portable devices. The demonstration shows how the device detects a change in capacitance caused by the touch of a finger, displaying the resulting change on the screen. 

Automotive 

• In automotive, ST will introduce the automotive 32-bit microcontroller SPC56 family, which was based on the Power Architecture^™ and 90-nm embedded flash memory technology. The MCU family is an achievement of the joint development program between ST and Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. The SPC56 family is optimized for individual applications, such as power train, body, safety and dashboard, and realizes a reduction of the time and cost of development using the common platform. ST will also demonstrate single-chip motor control of car dashboard gauges and the LCD panel display to indicate various kinds of information.
• ST will also introduce the second generation system-on-chip EYeQ2^™ that was jointly developed with Mobileye, targeting the visual driver assistance field. It realizes the functions for improving safety on roads, such as lane departure warning, adaptive headlight control, traffic sign recognition, and collision avoidance and forward collision warning by using a combination of radar and camera. In addition, ST will demonstrate the application processor Cartesio^™ equipped with GPS functionality for personal navigation devices (PNDs), for which demands have been rapidly growing in recent years, as well as navigation and telematics. Cartesio has been used in products from Garmin, a leading PND manufacturer.

Microcontrollers

• ST will highlight the STM32, which is the high-performance and low-power-consumption, ARM Cortex-M3 based 32-bit microcontroller. The booth will host demonstrations of new debugging functions; SWD (serial wire debug) and SWV (serial wire viewer). By using these functions, developers can realize high-performance debugging, such as real-time traces, while reducing the number of pins used for debugging. This dramatically improves the degrees of freedom of pin configuration. ST will also demonstrate the mC3 configurator that reduces the software development time through easy configuration of various inputs and outputs of STM32 and the very compact mITRON-compliant RTOS mC3/Compact with a minimum code size of only 2.4 Kbyte.

Mobile Communications

• In July 2008, ST and NXP established a new leader in wireless ICs, ST-NXP Wireless, by merging the respective wireless-related businesses of both companies. The products of ST-NXP Wireless will be shown on ST’s booth. ST-NXP Wireless will demonstrate the Bluetooth + WiFi coexistence solution that combines the STLC2500D Bluetooth IC, which offers an ultra-low leakage current and high performance analog, with the STLC4560 WiFi solution, which offers ultra-low power consumption. ST-NXP Wireless will also demonstrate a frame doubler function IC that makes adjustments such as frame interpolation, scaling, edge reinforcement and backlight-intensity adjustment, for portable device displays. Most conventional frame doubler functions are performed by software, but the chip implements the frame doubler function in hardware, requiring no software development, thereby reducing the time and cost of development.