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Renesas Electronics has unveiled two new 32-bit All Flash microcontrollers (MCUs), with processing performance of 1024 Dhrystone MIPS (million instructions per second) at a clock speed of 200 megahertz (MHz), currently the world’s highest among the existing 32-bit dual-core MCUs with embedded flash memory.
The new MCUs have two built-in CPU core, 64 kilobytes (KB) of random access memory (RAM) available for each core, 2 megabytes (MB) of flash memory and an additional 64KB system RAM are available in a 304-pin fine pitch ball grid array (FBGA) package. Among the features in the new MCUs are: (1) Integration of two V850E2M 32-bit CPU cores; (2) Up to 2 megabytes (MB) of flash memory; (3) Expanded peripheral functions including USB, CAN and Ethernet interface as well as increased number of channels for conventional peripherals such as timers and serial interfaces. In addition two single core V850E2M MCUs with up to 1MB flash memory and one built-in V850E2M core are also available. Manufacturing systems are becoming increasingly highly-precise, faster and more complex in order to boost the manufacturing capacity of plants and more complex, MCUs integrated in factory automation (FA) systems, such as motion drives, servo drives and inverters, are required to provide higher performance. It is also important to provide compact MCUs with less power consumption to meet the growing consumer demand for environmentally friendly products.
