NEC offers customers development tools to be used with the KO devices to help expedite design time and reduce overall system costs. Such tools include the KO software simulator, KO-IDE hardware system emulator, C compilers, ICEs, and screen debuggers. The newest member of the company's KO family of embedded controllers, the device integrates traditionally external parts directly onto the chip, reducing overall costs and increasing design flexibility. The PD780805 is the first in a series of new KO parts with integrated interfaces and other on-chip peripherals targeted for use in automobile instrument clusters with analog and digital displays. Other features of the PD780805 include a changeable instruction execution time, to a maximum of 0.4 microseconds.
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