For a quick development start, the RX64M MCUs will be supported by a robust development tool environment from both Renesas and third-party tool vendors that make up the RX ecosystem, such as Micrium, Express Logic, CMX, SEGGER, and FreeRTOS. Both the Eclipse-based e² studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from Renesas as well as the Embedded Workbench for RX (EWRX) IDE from IAR Systems will provide complete build and debug support for the RX64M. In addition to the Renesas Starter Kit for RX64M, which comes with a Renesas E1 On-Chip debugger (JTAG based), Renesas provides the RX Driver Package, which is a collection of driver software for the various on-chip peripherals. Renesas will also provide an interactive, GUI-based code generation tool that is integrated into the e² studio IDE and allows the user to automatically generate initialization and driver code for the peripherals on the MCU. These software tools, which Renesas will start introducing sequentially from March 2014 will contribute significantly to reducing the number of development steps and costs required for hardware and software development on the RX64M.

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Renesas intends to continue development of high-functionality and high-performance MCUs for the industrial equipment and network equipment markets, which are expected to grow rapidly along with the progress in the IoT field.

(Note 1) Coremark:
A benchmark test developed by EEMBC (Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium) that is specialized for evaluating CPU cores. It consists of a set of C programs that perform operations such as data reads and writes, integer arithmetic, and control calculations. The performance value per operating frequency cycle is a score calculated in the IAR Embedded Workbench for RX, which is an integrated development environment developed by IAR Systems.

Availability

Samples of the RX64M MCUs are available now. Mass production is scheduled to begin in August 2014 and is expected to reach a combined volume of 500,000 units per month by February 2015. (Availability is subject to change without notice)

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