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Renesas R32C

Renesas is one of the leading semiconductor companies in the world and it offers one of the best microcontrollers in the industry – the Renesas R32C. Development for the R32C is suited to home automation, home networking and appliances which require touch panel graphics at low cost and other appliance related functions. It requires a variety of components and systems to put together a total solution and this is what the Unison package does for the R32C.

First, Unison offers a broad set of technology which are applicable for appliance applications that the M16C andR32C are currently being used for. These applications require:

  • Motor control – both drives and motion control
  • Smart sensors
  • Modems of various flavors
  • Touch Panel Color Graphics
  • TCP/IP with routing capabilities
  • Wireless operation
  • IrDA
  • Web servers
  • And configuration potentially using SD, uSD or a file system.

Most applications are high volume with components of DSP algorithms included. The motor control portion for example, requires DSP if maximum efficiency is sought using vector control algorithms. Other examples might involve noise elimination and averaging.

The Unison RTOS development environment for Renesas R32C offers the following features with which Linux compatible applications can be developed:

  • A tiny tiny Linux RTOS including:
    • pthreads
    • mutex
    • semaphores
    • message queues
    • memory pools
    • memory partitions
    • complete I/O services including a file system, serial I/O, wireless, IrDA and networking
    • HEW IDE
    • A Compiler, Assembler, Linker, Librarian from HEW
    • Downloading support from HEW
    • A fully functional debugger which works with jtag

This complete offering ensures that users have all the support they need to get a system up and going with minimal effort and risk. It provides full source code so you never need to wonder how things work or why a certain behavior happens.

The Unison RTOS Data Sheet for Renesas R32C development can be found here.
A FREE development version can be downloaded here.
You can find more information here.

The entire Renesas R32C development offering is supported with design and training services. Services are available on a per diem or fixed price basis. Please refer to these sections of our web site for more details.