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RX MCU Design Contest will award $110,000 in cash and prizes

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Renesas has 1000 RDKs that it will distribute for free to engineers that want to compete.

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RX62N demonstration kit provides robust communication functions

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

The RDK comes with a complement of nine demonstration projects that exercise the on-chip peripherals and a variety of additional peripheral functions that are integrated on the demo board.

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RX architecture supports five operating modes to minimize power consumption

Friday, October 8, 2010

. As you step through the five stages, power consumption goes down while the time it takes to recover from the sleep mode goes up.

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Flash API enables user-mode reprogramming of memory

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

The application program interface (API) allows developers to add Flash reprogramming capabilities into their applications — working in user mode so the internal Flash can be reprogrammed during normal MCU operation.

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RX Design Guide can jump start design and provide application guidance

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Design Guide starts power-supply circuits, MCU operating modes, the flexibility to support big- or little-endian operations, and clock and reset circuits; and it continues through details in terms of memory maps and the variety of RX sleep modes.

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Peripheral Driver Generator tool now supports RX610

Monday, September 20, 2010

GUI-based Peripheral Driver Generator (PDG) tool automates driver development and eliminate manual coding entirely.

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App note provides a guide to Dhrystone benchmarks

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Let’s take a bit deeper look at how you can run your own MCU Dhrystone benchmarks guided by a new application note.

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