User guide

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every designer should find an optimized device for the target

project. For the novices in electronics, Renesas Technology

was formed after the merger of Hitachi Semiconductor and

Mitsubishi Electric in 2003 and has become the world leader

in the microcontroller. As a result, many microcontrollers with

different architectures have come under the single banner to

create a single point source for the microcontrollers.

16-Bit microcontroller line up of Renesas, H8/300H series and M16C

series are very popular among the system designers. Even though these

devices have different architectures, they sport high performance CPU

integrated with the advanced peripherals. Both these families are designed with

with. The working registers have the facilities to do all the processing and

operations normally happen with the ALU. This leads to code efficiency.

M16C devices are designed with the specific goal of doing high speed processing

with low power consumption. In addition, the devices are made less susceptible

to the electro magnetic radiations and they emit less radiation than other devices.

Special protection mechanisms are built in to ensure trouble free operations. All

these features make the device suitable for reliable applications. On the other

hand, H8 device family is known for the range of advanced peripheral functions. A

variety of counter, timer functions, PWM, communication ports give these devices

a clear edge in developing solutions with only few chips.

Then along the way, Renesas developed R8C/Tiny family of microcontrollers

incorporating best features of M16C and H8 families to exceed the expectations

of ever demanding designers. Therefore, R8C/Tiny devices come with the M16C

Renesas developed

R8C/Tiny family of

microcontrollers

incorporating best

features of M16C

and H8 families to

exceed the expectations.

R8C/Tiny devices come with

the M16C core and the

peripherals of H8

family.