Renesas optimises mcus for digital power control applications

The mcus are optimised for digital power control applications, including motor control with power factor correction, digital power supply, uninterrupted power supplies and solar inverters. According to Renesas, the combination of advanced analogue, processing power, high resolution capability and integrated timer functions make the new RX62G mcus ideal to implement high accuracy digital control for inverters/converters, power management and digital power supply, such as power systems and general purpose server power. By enabling complex algorithms and high precision control at an affordable cost, Renesas claims the series enables higher efficiency in these types of power control applications, helping to reduce their carbon footprints. "As a society, we are becoming more conscious of our energy footprint and digital power control is one area that enables us to achieve a more optimal power/performance balance," said Ritesh Tyagi, senior director, MCU Products, Renesas Electronics America. "However, achieving better power efficiency requires smarter embedded design. The RX62G group, which is based on high performance 32bit RX cpu core, comes with comprehensive support ecosystem and provides a robust mcu platform for digital power control applications." Featuring a high resolution timer with 312.5ps resolution, 100MHz operating frequency to achieve 165 Dhrystone MIPS performance, and built in floating point unit and dsp functionality, Renesas claims the RX62G group is the industry's first group of general purpose mcus to provide this level of combined high resolution capability and extreme performance mcu.