Ultra-Low-Power MCUs Offer Robust Security
Renesas Electronics recently introduced the RA4L1 microcontroller (MCU) group, with 14 new devices offering ultra-low power consumption, advanced security, and segment LCD support. Leveraging the 80-MHz Arm Cortex M33 processor with TrustZone support, the MCUs deliver a combination of performance and power savings that enable designers to address myriad applications, including water meters, smart locks, IoT sensors, and others.
Features include proprietary low-power technology that delivers 168 µA/MHz active mode at 80 MHz with a standby current of 1.70 µA while retaining all of the SRAM. The MCUs are also available in very small packages such as a 3.64- × 4.28-mm wafer-level chip-scale package (WLCSP), which meet the needs of products such as portable printers, digital cameras, and smart labels.
Renesas’s Flexible Software Package (FSP) accelerates application development by providing all required the infrastructure software, including multiple RTOS, BSP, peripheral drivers, middleware, connectivity, networking, and TrustZone support, as well as reference software for AI, motor control, and cloud solutions.
Users can integrate their own legacy code and choice of RTOS with FSP, thus providing full flexibility in application development. The FSP eases migration of existing IP to and from either RA6 or RA2 Series devices.
