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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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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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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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FPU accelerates polynomial calculations for thermocouple measurements

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

For a minimum memory footprint, and therefore minimum system cost, your design must calculate the polynomial in real-time and a floating-point unit (FPU) can greatly accelerate that task.

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IAR Systems announces support for the RX Application Binary Interface

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Compiled code developed with Renesas and IAR tools can now be mixed and matched. Libraries, drivers, and other software developed with Renesas tools can be used seamlessly in the Embedded Workbench.

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