New 16bit Microcontroller from Renesas

Renesas Technology Europe has announced the availability of the M16C/63 which has been designed to run on a standard 3V Lithium-ion battery.

• Low Power
• Huge voltage range: 1,8V to 5,5V
• High performance
• 80 pin and 100 pin package
• 256K Flash / 2x4K Data Flash / 20K RAM

The M16C/63 is an improvement of the M16C/64 mainly regarding leakage currents, which has been significantly decreased. Further more the M16C/63 Group supports operating modes that allow additional power control.

The M16C/63 Group MCU incorporates the M16C/60 Series CPU core and flash memory, employing sophisticated instructions for a high level of efficiency.

This MCU has 1 Mbyte of address space (expandable to 4 Mbytes), and it is capable of executing instructions at high speed (1 instruction per clock). In addition the CPU core boasts a multiplier for high-speed operation processing.

The MCU also uses an anti-noise configuration to reduce emissions of electromagnetic noise and is designed to withstand EMI. Integration of many peripheral functions, including multifunction timer and serial interface, reduces the number of system components

Posted: 6 Nov 2008

Author: Abacu Conelec