The Renesas RA family is a new 32-bit MCU family built with the Arm® Cortex®-M core architecture. With a wide range of performance and features, the Renesas RA Family has been developed to meet the scalability, power consumption and performance demands of embedded systems.
The flexible Renesas Advanced (RA) 32-bit MCUs are industry leading 32-bit MCUs with the Arm® Cortex®-M33, -M23 and -M4 processor cores and PSA certification. The Renesas RA family delivers key advantages compared to competitive Arm Cortex-M MCUs by providing stronger embedded security, superior CoreMark® performance, and ultra-low power operation. PSA certification provides customers the confidence and assurance to quickly deploy secure IoT endpoint and edge devices, and smart factory equipment for Industry 4.0.
The first members of the RA family include three MCU series designed with common DNA making the products pin and feature compatible allowing easy scalability and code reuse from one device to another. The new RA MCUs are suited to a wide range of applications including Home Automation, Industrial Automation, Building Automation, Energy Management Systems, Healthcare and Innovative Industrial IoT customers who require better security and connectivity.
The RA MCUs have a highly optimized feature set coupled with excellent scalability and compatibility across the Renesas RA family to realize hardware and software portability thus allowing designers to build platforms with scale to support a wide range of products. The RA MCUs also feature scalable HMI solutions by offering an integrated Capacitive Touch Sensing Unit for display control and includes devices offering an embedded TFT controller supported by an 2D drawing engine and JPEG Engine.
The RA MCUs have a high level of security, they feature a Crypto Module with different cryptography accelerator, latest encryption algorithms, RSA/DSA/ECC/AES/SHA and a True Random Number Generator (TRNG) have also been integrated. The Crypto Module supports Key isolation and Keys can be wrapped encrypted with a key unique to each MCU so they are only accessible within the crypto module on a particular MCU. In addition, an ARM security MPU is also included.
