Mouser now uses an RL78/G23 microcontroller from Renesas Electronics. The microcontroller is compatible with the RL78 family of microcontrollers, providing engineers with better 16-bit performance and lower power consumption for many consumer and industrial iot applications.
The device consumes only 44µA/MHz of memory when the CPU is running and only 210nA of memory in STOP mode (4Kbytes reserved in SRAM), improving performance over the current family of microcontrollers. Using new processes and functions, microcontrollers extend peripheral functionality and efficiency while reducing power consumption, making them ideal for a variety of applications, from home appliances and consumer electronics to industrial automation. The newly implemented Snoze mode sequencer eliminates the need to activate the CPU when peripheral operations are in Snoze mode, significantly improving the efficiency of applications that require intermittent operations.
The device's logical and event link controllers enable it to create conditional links of multiple events while continuing to benefit from the power reduction achieved by traditional event link controllers. The family's first capacitive touch sensing unit (CTSU2L) combines excellent high sensitivity and low noise characteristics and can be used to achieve gesture-based contactless user interfaces, ideally suited for consumer and industrial control surfaces. The device offers a wide operating voltage range of 1.6V to 5.5V, up to 32MHz, and 768Kbytes of flash memory on the chip.
The RL78/G23 Rapid Prototyping board, also available, is used to create prototypes for a variety of applications using microcontrollers. The board standard provides Arduino Uno and Grove interfaces to simplify programming and allow access to all pins on the microcontroller with high scalability.
