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RX FAMILY

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Overview of RX Family Microcontrollers
The RX Family of 32-bit microcontrollers by Renesas is built around the RXv1/RXv2 CPU core, offering superior performance and power efficiency. The family consists of four series: RX700, RX600, RX200, and RX100, each catering to different performance and power consumption needs.

RX Series Breakdown

RX700 Series: The flagship series with the highest speed and performance, featuring up to 4MB flash memory and operating at 240MHz. It includes advanced communication interfaces and security features.
RX600 Series: Known for high speed and performance, operating up to 120MHz with extensive peripheral functions for applications like motor control and security.
RX200 Series: Balances power efficiency and performance, suitable for IoT and power-sensitive applications, operating up to 80MHz.
RX100 Series: Entry-level series designed for ultra-low power consumption, operating up to 32MHz, ideal for system control and user interface applications.

Core Features and Compatibility
The RX Family features a unified architecture with compatibility across CPU instructions, pin assignments, and functions, facilitating easy migration and development. The RXv2 core is backward compatible with RXv1, enhancing software reusability and tool compatibility.

Development Tools and Solutions
Renesas provides a range of development tools and solutions, including security and human-machine interface (HMI) solutions, to support the RX Family. The family also includes motor control capabilities and safety functions.

Roadmap and Extensibility
The RX Family roadmap includes plans to extend the RX100, RX200, RX600, and RX700 series, enhancing functions and expanding the product lineup to meet diverse application needs.

Product Families

RZ, RX, RL78 Families: These families offer a broad lineup of MCUs and MPUs, ranging from low-end to high-end products, ensuring continued supply of mass-produced items.

Motor Control Solutions

Renesas provides motor control solutions that integrate microcontrollers and analog products to reduce power consumption and noise in AC induction and brushless DC motors.
Development tools are available to streamline the development workflow, from specification design to mass production.
The Motor Control Starter Kit and Renesas Motor Workbench offer tools for real-time debugging and motor drive evaluation.

Capacitive Touch Solutions

Renesas supports two capacitive touch technologies on a single chip, offering high sensitivity and water resistance.
The RX130 evaluation system allows for immediate evaluation of capacitive touch systems, with various ROM size options to match system control requirements.

Functional Safety Solutions

Renesas offers functional safety solutions to meet industrial safety standards, including safety packages, reference kits, and development tools.
The RX231 Communication Security Evaluation Kit provides robust security for IoT edge devices, featuring secure boot and update functions to prevent virus infiltration.

Security Solutions

The Trusted Secure IP module ensures secure storage of encryption keys, protecting against unauthorized access and tampering.
The RX231 kit facilitates the integration of security features, significantly reducing development time.

Human-Machine Interface (HMI) Solutions

Renesas offers various HMI solutions and evaluation kits designed to simplify the development of user interfaces for applications including home appliances, industrial equipment, healthcare, and office equipment.
The RX231 HMI Evaluation Kit features a power-efficient 32-bit RX231 microcontroller with integrated capacitive touch and USB functionality.
The RX65N HMI Evaluation Kit includes an LCDC and 2D graphics engine for image rendering performance evaluation.

RX Core Features

The RX core combines CISC and RISC architectures to deliver high performance and low power consumption.
The RXv2 core offers improved pipeline and FPU/DSP instructions, achieving up to 4.55 CoreMark/MHz.

Performance Enhancements

The RX Family microcontrollers have significantly improved processing performance, more than doubling compared to earlier products.
Key stages in the processing pipeline include instruction fetch, decode, execution, memory access, and write-back.

RX Family Features

High-Speed Flash Memory: Up to 4MB of 120MHz zero-wait high-speed flash memory is integrated, supporting background operations for simultaneous program execution and memory programming.
Variety of Package Types: The RX Family offers a range of package options to suit different applications, ensuring backward compatibility with previous microcontroller families.
Efficient Bus Configuration: A hierarchical bus configuration allows parallel processing, significantly boosting system performance, especially in systems with communication capabilities.
Power Efficiency: The RX CPU core is optimized for power efficiency, achieving high operation performance with low power consumption, making it suitable for eco-friendly products.
Fast Interrupt Response: Technologies like high-speed flash memory and optimized register assignment improve interrupt response performance, ideal for applications requiring high responsiveness.
Hardware Safety Functions: The RX Family includes hardware implementations of system safety functions, reducing software load and supporting compliance with safety standards like IEC 60730 Class B.

Motor Control

The RX Family's capabilities in motor control include support for various motor types and control methods.
Advanced timers, A/D converters, and PWM outputs facilitate efficient motor control.

RX700 Series Features

The RX700 Series offers high-performance 32-bit RX CPUs with up to 240MHz operation, large-capacity flash memory, numerous peripheral functions, and enhanced security features.
It maintains compatibility with the RX600 Series, allowing for easy migration and development of next-generation products.

Specifications

The RX71M features a 240MHz RXv2 core with FPU, up to 4MB of flash memory, and 512KB of SRAM.
It supports high-speed access with an advanced fetch unit (AFU) and offers hardware encryption functions (AES, DES, SHA, RNG) for secure communication.

Security and Connectivity

The RX series incorporates hardware encryption to reduce CPU load and enhance communication reliability.
Trusted Memory functions prevent unauthorized access to critical data.
Connectivity options include Ethernet, USB 2.0 OTG, CAN, and various communication interfaces, supporting industrial Ethernet applications and secure data transmission.

Main Applications

The RX700 and RX600 series are ideal for industrial applications such as PLCs, inverters, semiconductor equipment, and office equipment like printers and copiers.
They are also suitable for security systems and encrypted communication applications.

Comparison and Compatibility

The RX series offers superior performance and power efficiency compared to competing products.
The RX65N and RX651 models provide enhanced peripheral functions and compatibility with previous RX600 series products, facilitating easy migration and software portability.

Conclusion

Renesas RX microcontrollers provide a robust solution for high-performance, secure, and efficient industrial applications, with a focus on connectivity, security, and real-time performance.

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RX FAMILY Renesas 32-Bit Microcontrollers

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Maintaining and Advancing the Renesas Tradition Mid-range 32-bit microcontrollers built around an exclusive CPU core developed by Renesas The RX microcontroller (MCU) family is designed around a cutting-edge CPU core that is exclusive to Renesas. Built on differentiated technologies perfected over many years, RX MCUs deliver superior performance with excellent power efficiency. The 32-bit enhanced Harvard architecture provides very high code density, with sizes typical of 16-bit CPUs. The flagship of the RX Family, with the highest speed and best performance The mainstream of the RX Family, with...

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RX Family Product Evolution About the RX Family RX700 Series The RX Family is the new generation of microcontrollers built around the revolutionary RX core, which combines the strengths of RISC and CISC architectures. It is the mainstay 32-bit family within the range of microcontroller products offered by Renesas. Products in the RX Family feature integrated digital signal processor (DSP) and floating point arithmetic processor modules. The RX700 and RX600 Series are optimized for high speed and superior performance. The ultra-low-power RX200 and RX100 Series are designed to deliver excellent...

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RX Family Roadmap and Extensibility RX Family Compatibility end to the high • Broad lineup extending from the low to choose from end Extensive range of MCUs and MPUs • Continued supply of products currently in mass production Advanced embedded microprocessors ready for the “smart society” 400MHz to 1.5GHz to support systems combining high performance and advanced functionality RX Family 32-bit microcontrollers built around a next-generation CPU core exclusive to Renesas Seamless coverage from 32MHz to 240MHz The RX Family is designed to maintain compatibility between the CPU instructions, pin...

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RX Family Solutions Motor Control Solutions Capacitive Touch Solutions Renesas offers motor control solutions incorporating microcontrollers and analog products that are designed to enable reduced power consumption and quieter operation when driving AC induction motors and brushless DC motors. Development tools optimized for each stage in the customer's development workflow are available. They help shorten the time needed for development. Development Workflow RX Capacitive Touch Functionality ■ Support for two capacitive touch technologies on a single chip: self-capacitance, which provides high...

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RX Family Solutions Functional Safety Solutions for the Industrial Field Security Solutions In the industrial equipment field the importance of "functional safety," which aims to maintain safety even when malfunctions occur, is increasing as a way to prevent the adverse effect of breakdowns and accidents on plant operation, the adverse effect of injuries to personnel on society, and the associated economic losses. The European Union's Machinery Directive also requires that equipment meet functional safety standards. To reduce the development burden on customers as the application of functional...

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Human-Machine Interface (HMI) Solutions RX231 HMI Evaluation Kit (R0K5RX231D000BR) This reference solution simplifies the process of developing user interfaces for home appliances, industrial equipment, healthcare equipment, or office equipment. It enables you to create attractive designs and user-friendly interfaces. ■ Highly power efficient 32-bit RX231 microcontroller with integrated capacitive touch and USB functionality ■ SAIC101 Smart Analog IC for controlling 16-bit A/D converter, amplifier gain, etc., allowing evaluation of the following functions: - Capacitive touch functions - Audio...

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RX Core Features RX Core Roadmap Feature 1: New-Generation CPU That Inherits the Strengths of Its Predecessors As products gain added value and systems become more complex, customers demand ever higher performance from microcontrollers. At the same time, they require microcontrollers with low power consumption to improve energy efficiency and extend battery life. The new RX core incorporates advances designed to meet these needs. It is called the RXv2 core. RXv2 Core Enhancements ■ Improved per-cycle execution performance ■ Improved DSP and FPU functions Higher Performance RXvl Up to 3.12 CoreMark/MHz...

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RXv2 Core FeaturesFeature 4: Revised Instruction Set RXv2 Core: CPU Block Diagram RXv2 CPU Block Configuration Diagram With regard to basic instructions and addressing modes, the number of instructions and the code size where reduced by identifying the most frequently used instructions and addressing modes and assigning them the shortest formats. Also, additional enhancements to the addressing modes were made to increase the efficiency of table manipulation. ■ Instructions have variable byte lengths, and the most frequently used instructions are assigned to the shortest instruction codes ■ The...

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RX Family Features Feature 1: Up to 4MB of 120MHz Zero-Wait High-Speed Flash Memory Feature 5: Efficient Bus Configuration That Boosts System Performance RX family microcontrollers come with high-speed flash memory and flash memory for data storage. Support for background operation (BGO) allows a program to run while erasing or programming take place in parallel. The separate internal high-speed bus allows parallel processing of DMAC/DTC data transfers while a program runs on the CPU. The RX Family includes products utilizing the cutting-edge 40nm ultrafine fabrication process and on-chip flash...

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corners S'^es RefrlSerators mult“n RX delivers high-speed arithmetic performance alongside MTU2 or MTU3, GPT timer, 12-bit A/D converter, and POE functions to simplify the process of implementing motor control! High-speed arithmetic operations (RX core) High-speed vector calculations ■ High-speed processing at 240MHz ■ FPU for high-speed floating point operations ■ On-chip MAC (multiply-accumulate unit) Waveform control/feedback control (MTU2 and MTU3, GPT, etc.) RX100 Recommended microcontrollers RX200 RX200 BLDC: Brushless DC motor, IM: AC induction motor, STM: Stepping motor Motor Types, Control...

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