January 2, 2025 - WPG HOLDINGS, a leading international semiconductor component distributor dedicated to the Asia-Pacific market, announced that its subsidiary, World Peace, has launched an automotive universal evaluation board solution based on NXP's S32K312 microcontrollers and FS2303B secure power management chips.

Figure 1 - WPG HOLDINGS automotive universal evaluation board solution based on NXP products

As the global automotive industry moves into a new phase of intelligence, automakers are not only presented with great opportunities, but also faced with many challenges. Faced with increasingly complex electronic control systems and strict functional safety requirements, manufacturers need to ensure product safety and reliability while accelerating the process of product conversion from concept to market. Under this trend, WPG HOLDINGS has launched an automotive universal evaluation board solution based on the NXP S32K312 microcontroller and FS2303B secure power management chip, aiming to help customers improve the speed of product prototyping and thus meet market demands faster.

Figure 2 - Scenario application diagram of WPG HOLDINGS automotive universal evaluation board solution based on NXP products

The S32K312 is a product in the S32K3 family of automotive general-purpose microcontrollers from NXP. Based on the ARM® Cortex®-M7 core and supporting single, dual and lockstep core configurations, the S32K3 series is scalable in terms of number of cores, memory and peripherals, compliant with ISO26262, and features advanced functional safety, information security, and low power consumption, making it suitable for bodywork, area control, and electrification applications in harsh operating environments.
In addition, NXP's integrated free development environment, S32DS, and real-time drivers also allow customers to quickly get started with the development of S32K3-based related application designs, greatly shortening the product development cycle and meeting the market demand for the rapid development of automotive electronic products.

Figure 3 - Block diagram of WPG HOLDINGS automotive universal evaluation board program based on NXP products

This program is a general-purpose industrial and automotive applications for evaluation boards, the core of the board carries a single-core S32K312 microcontroller in HDQFP-100 package, with FS2303B security power management chip, TJA1443ATK automotive grade high-speed CAN transceivers, TJA1021TK/20 automotive grade high-speed LIN transceivers and Molex's high performance connectors. Thanks to the outstanding performance of the devices, the solution can achieve ASIL-B functional safety level while optimizing the cost. The solution also supports HSE safety engine, OTA, advanced connectivity and low-power performance, which can meet the basic development needs of users. In addition, the evaluation board also adds the Arduino UNO standard interface, compatible with the “Shield” expansion board option, which can be used by customers for product prototyping.

Core technology advantages:
Hardware Features:
Evaluation board measures 7cm x 13cm, making it lightweight and easy to use;
32-bit ARM® Cortex®-M7 core, S32K312 in single-core mode, HDQFP100 package is 55% smaller than normal IC size;
Equipped with a secure power management chip FS2303B to realize all-round power monitoring management and fail-safe protection;
On-board USB to UART module, without external converter to realize the upper computer communication;
2-channel high-speed CAN transceiver and 2-channel LIN transceiver, which can communicate with automotive ECU end-to-end via bus;
Components: 1*RGB small light, 2*user buttons, 1*potentiometer, 2*electrode touch panel;
Provide Arduino UNO interface, can be connected to various types of development boards for application expansion;
Support 10-Pin JTAG/SWD standard debugging interface and 4-wire SWD debugging mode.
Software Features:
Deeply coupled with the RTD real-time driver software provided by the original manufacturer, the rich official website routines provide users with a barrier-free development environment, which can be based on the underlying driver foundation of NXP's production-grade AUTOSAR® and Non - AUTOSAR® for automotive-grade application software development;
Stand-alone HSE security subsystem with free security firmware from NXP, HSE security engine - AES-128/192/256, RSA, ECC, secure boot and key storage, side-channel protection, compliant with ISO21434;
S32 Secure Software Architecture (SAF), including six fault detection and response libraries, and free secure peripheral drivers;
Architecture kernel self-test (SCST);
Free Inter-Core Communication Framework (IPCF), middle-tier software for communicating across multi-core systems, multiple operating systems;
Free MATLAB Modeling and Design Toolbox (MBDT), Simulink environment plug-in from NXP.
Program specifications:
Automotive-grade safety power management chip SBC FS2303B:
Tree power rails to power microcontrollers and sensors, factory-configurable power up and down sequence of each power supply;
Features three modes of operation (normal mode, standby mode and stop mode) and manages the system's low quiescent current and fast wake-up function;
Multiple wake-up sources: WAKE pin, HVIO/LVIO pins, CAN FD, LIN or via SPI/I²C commands;
Built-in high-side driver with cyclic sense or wake-up source;
Built-in 1x CAN-FD transceiver (up to 5Mbit/s communication rate) and 1x LIN transceiver;
QFN48 package pads exposed for optimized thermal management;
Extended configuration and customization of the chip via OTP burn-in memory;
Functional safety level ASIL-B achieved and ISO26262 compliant design and process;
With power supervision, fault detection, MCU hardware monitoring, fail-safe protection, advanced watchdog and other functions.
Automotive-grade high-speed CAN transceiver (TJA1443ATK):
Supports standard HS CAN and CANFD in accordance with ISO 11898-2:2016, SAE J2284-1-5 and SAE J1939-14;
Reliable communication is also possible at CAN-FD fast phase with 5 Mbit/s data rate;
Support for very low current standby mode and sleep mode with local and remote wake-up functions;
Interface compatible with 3V and 5V microcontroller signals via VIO input control;
Conforms to AEC-Q100 Grade 1 certification (ambient temperature = 125°C), and the specialized TJA1443ATK can be used for high-temperature applications (ambient temperature = 150°C);
Conforms to IEC 61000-4-2, providing excellent ESD resistance of ±8kV;
Small footprint HVSON14 package for enhanced automatic optical inspection (AOI) capability.
Automotive-grade high-speed LIN transceiver (TJA1021ATK) specifications:
Compliant with 1/SAEJ2602 standard;
Baud rates up to 20kBd;
Extremely low power consumption in sleep mode and minimized power consumption in fault mode with local and remote wake-up functions;
Input levels compatible with 3V and 5V devices for direct connection to microcontrollers;
Extremely low electromagnetic emissions (EME) and high electromagnetic immunity (EMI);
Possibility of passive operation in unpowered state;
Integrated termination resistors for LIN slave applications;
High ESD robustness: Pin LIN, VBAT and WAKE_N are able to withstand ±6kV ESD according to IEC61000-4-2;
Small HVSON8 package for enhanced automatic optical inspection (AOI) capability.