RL78 Family is a 16-bit CPU core for embedded microcontrollers of Renesas Electronics introduced in 2010.
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11 Facts About RL78
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RL78 Family is an accumulator-based register-bank CISC architecturewith 3-stage instruction pipelining.
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RL78 covers wide range of application area for mechanical system controls and for user interfaces.
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RL78 Family is divided into some groups, those have unique naming rules.
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RL78 is suitable for consumer electronics, such as major appliances, small appliances, and medical devices.
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Automotive industry, low-power and size constrained applications are ideally suited to RL78's automotive dedicated communication interfaces, such as CAN, LIN, and IEBus, and brushless DC electric motor solutions.
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RL78 was the first new MCU to emerge from the new Renesas Electronics company from the merger of NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology and incorporated the features of the NEC 78K0R and Renesas Technology R8C microcontrollers.
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RL78 was developed to address extremely low power but highly integrated microcontroller applications, to this end the core offered a novel low power mode of operation called “snooze mode” where the ADC or serial interface can be programmed to meet specific conditions to wake the device from the extreme low power STOP mode of 0.
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RL78 Family is supported with a various range of hardware and software development tools.
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The RL78 ABI defined by Renesas is compatible with IAR's V2 and higher compilers.
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RL78 Family has a range of devices from 20pin with 16K Byte flash memory to 128pin with 512K Byte flash memory.
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