Renesas Electronics Europe announces the new RX230 Group of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), which offers an optimal combination of high performance with digital signal processing (DSP) and floating point unit (FPU), and low power consumption. With 1.8V to 5.5V supply, the RX230 Group is ideal for applications that require high processing performance in environments with low current supply capacity – a key requirement in several industrial and consumer applications – as well as the robustness needed in home appliance applications.
Compared to the existing RX231 Group, the RX230 is optimized with regard to embedded flash size and feature. This covers the requirements of cost-sensitive industrial and consumer applications who not require USB nor CAN interfaces in their application design and require 256kB Flash or less for their code, at a maximum of large 32kB embedded RAM.
The RX230 Group can handle high processing loads, such as eliminating noise from digital signals and performing floating-point calculations, by using Renesas’ powerful 32-bit RXv2 CPU core with DSP/FPU operation capabilities. As a result, the system power consumption is not only reduced by applying the latest Renesas process technologies, but also by reducing the CPU frequency and boosting the processing speed at the same time. The RXv2 CPU core as implemented on the RX230 achieves a performance benchmark score of 4.16 CoreMark/MHz, which is leading edge in its class. In addition, the RX230 achieves top-class power performances in standby at only 0.8 μA, which enables system manufacturers to extend system operation on battery power.
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