Renesas Expands Motor Control Embedded Processing Portfolio with 35 New MCUs
Renesas is introducing 35 new products, including MCUs, analog and power solutions, sensors, communications devices, signal conditioners, and more, to expand its motor control portfolio.
Advancing Decades of Motor Control Leadership with Latest Technology
Renesas is introducing two new MCU groups from its RA Family of Arm® Cortex®-M devices. The RA4T1 Group delivers 100 MHz performance with up to 256KB of flash and 40KB SRAM. The new RA6T3 Group offers 200 MHz operating frequency and provides 256KB of flash and 40KB SRAM. Both new groups offer an impressive array of features and functions specifically for motor control applications, including trigonometric function units (TFUs) for acceleration, advanced ADC with integrated PGA, as well as a wide choice of communication interfaces including CAN FD. The new parts are supported by the Renesas Flexible Software Package (FSP) for easy porting of designs from other RA family devices.
Renesas is also delivering new RX26T Group MCUs from the RX family operating at 120 MHz with up to 512KB of flash memory and 64KB SRAM. They support 5V power supplies, delivering high noise immunity and control accuracy. They also provide TFUs, on-chip timing, and interrupt control. Customers of the popular RX24T MCUs can easily scale designs to the new RX26T products to take advantage of existing design software while realizing performance and control efficiency improvements.
Renesas Leadership in Embedded Processing for Motor Control
Renesas introduced MCUs designed specifically for motor control over 10 years ago. The company has now shipped over 1.1 billion motor control-specific embedded processors to thousands of customers worldwide. In addition to the RX and RA Families, Renesas offers 16-bit RL78 MCUs and 64-bit RZ MPUs optimized for motor applications. In 2022, Renesas introduced the industry’s first RISC-V-based ASSP designed for motor control.
“The industrial motor market is expected to grow strongly, as industrialization and machine automation technology continue to advance in emerging nations. The market will also benefit from the industry-wide development of new manufacturing facilities in response to growing geopolitical risks. In particular, there is significant market potential in robotics, electronic component manufacturing equipment, and power tools, all of which extensively use MCUs. We expect that with its broad range of motor control MCUs that address diverse customer requirements, Renesas can help the industry accelerate its growth,” said Takanobu Yamanishi, Senior Researcher at Fuji Keizai.
All of the new MCUs are supported by Renesas’ Flexible Motor Control development kit that enables easy evaluation of motor control using permanent magnet synchronous motors (brushless DC motors), and the Renesas Motor Workbench development tool. By improving motor control efficiency, Renesas’ MCUs can save energy in end systems.
Key Features of the RA4T1 Group MCUs
- 100 MHz Arm® Cortex®-M33 CPU core with TrustZone®
- Integrated flash memory options from 128KB to 256KB and 40KB SRAM
- Package options from 32- to 64-pin
- Integrated Trigonometric Function Unit as hardware accelerator
- Integrated advanced analog functions including 12-bit ADC, Programmable gain amplifier, Comparator, and 12-bit DAC
Key Features of the RA6T3 Group MCUs
- 200 MHz Arm® Cortex®-M33 CPU core with TrustZone®
- Integrated flash memory of 256KB and 40KB SRAM
- Package options from 32- to 64-pin
- Integrated advanced analog functions including 12-bit ADC, Programmable gain amplifier, Comparator, and 12-bit DAC
- Integrated communications options including USB 2.0 Full-Speed Device, CAN FD, I3C, SCI, and SPI
Key Features of the RX26T Group MCUs
- Industry-leading real-time performance: 120 MHz with no-wait flash memory access
- 5V power supply support: High noise immunity and dynamic range of analog inputs
- Dual motor support with FOC and PFC control on a single chip: 120 MHz PWM (2 channels of three-phase complementary + 2 channels of single-phase complementary), three 12-bit ADCs
- Board miniaturization/BOM reduction: built-in high-speed on-chip oscillator, small QFN packages (48-HWQFN: 7x7mm, 64-HWQFN: 9x9mm)
- Highly secure: dual-bank flash memory enables rewriting without halting the system; Trusted Secure IP-Lite reduces risk of information leakage
- High-speed communication: next generation CAN FD and I3C basic support
Availability
The new MCU Groups and associated development kits are available today from Renesas and its authorized distributors. More information is available at renesas.com/RA4T1, renesas.com/RA6T3, and renesas.com/RX26T, respectively.
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