New 16-bit MCUs from Renesas for automotive body control electronics

Renesas Electronics has launched new 16-bit MCU family called RL78/F13 and RL78/F14 for automotive body control systems such as power window and side mirror control, and also for automotive motor control systems such as electric water pumps and cooling fans. This family consists of a total of 91 products including 60 products in the RL78/F13 Group and 31 products in the FL78/F14 Group. The RL78/F13 MCUs are designed for use in an extensive range of automotive applications. The RL78/F14 MCUs support the body control system applications, such as BCM (body control module) and HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) control that require especially large memory capacities. Key features of the RL78/F13 and RL78/F14 MCUs: RL78/F13 MCUs have internal flash memory sizes from 16- to 128-kilobytes (KB) and packages from 20- to 80-pins, and the RL78/F14 MCUs have internal flash memory with capacities from 48- to 256 KB, packages from 30- to 100-pins, and RAM with capacities up to 20 KB. RL78/F13 and RL78/F14 MCUs adopt the respective high-functionality MCU peripheral functions of the existing Renesas' 78K0R and R8C CPU cores. This allows system manufacturers to make effective use of existing assets and also achieve improved performance by adding multiply-and-accumulate instructions to the CPU core. Support for high-temperature operation up to 150°C allow reduction of t...