STMicroelectronics has introduced that it’s placing its SPC58 microcontroller household, designed primarily with automotive purposes in thoughts, into its top-end longevity program — promising 20 years of availability, by way of to a minimum of 2038 and all the way in which to 2041 for a minimum of one product line.
“Our long-term dedication to supporting the SPC58 household for automotive prospects globally lets system designers confidently begin new tasks and proceed to leverage their investments in machine validations, software program, and tooling,” says STMicro’s Luca Rodeschini. “The MCUs allow a versatile, platform-based strategy and future-proof scalability, presenting a broad choice of machine variants that assist evolving automotive electrical architectures.”
Engaged on a challenge constructed atop STMicro’s SPC58 household? They will now be out there for a full 20 years from launch, the corporate has promised. (📷: STMicroelectronics)
Longevity applications are all about guaranteeing {that a} design constructed round this yr’s chips would not want respinning for subsequent yr’s chips — guaranteeing assist and availability over a set interval to supply confidence for designers that they’ll have the ability to maintain their creations round for longer. In excessive circumstances, it results in issues just like the Zilog Z80 — an element launched in 1976 and which was solely formally discontinued in standalone type in April final yr.
STMicro’s promise would not fairly attain that far, but it surely’s fairly huge: the SCP58 household of elements will probably be out there, the corporate says, for a minimum of 20 years from launch. FOr most elements, meaning availability by way of to a minimum of 2038; for others, together with the SCP58 H-series general-purpose microcontroller with its beneficiant 10MB of built-in non-volatile reminiscence, 2041.
Extra info on the SPC58 household is offered on the STMicro web site; a full record of elements coated beneath the corporate’s 20-year longevity dedication — in addition to its lesser seven-, 10-, and 15-year longevity commitments — is offered on a separate web page.
