Microcontrollers have ‘industry’s most accurate’ on chip oscillator
Renesas Electronics has unveiled 16 new 16bit microcontrollers within its R8C/Lx mcu Series. According to Renesas, the product range provides the 'industry's most stable accuracy' on the high speed on chip oscillator along with ultra low power consumption.
A total of four groups are being launched, ranging from 52 to 100pins, with up to 128KB of programmable flash memory. Sample shipments of the first products are scheduled to begin in Q1 FY2011, with samples of the remaining products being shipped shortly after.
The R8C/L3xM groups include a high speed on chip oscillator with +/- 1% typical accuracy at room temperature and +/-1.5% guaranteed accuracy in all temperature ranges. The high speed on chip oscillator supplies the 40MHz oscillation with 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5 1/6, 1/7, 1/8 or 1/9 clock division as clock sources to the cpu and also the on chip peripheral functions.
Typical applications are battery powered devices, healthcare devices and industrial equipment.
