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Renesas New RA8 Entry-Line MCU Groups Brings High Performance of Arm Cortex-M85 Processor to Cost-Sensitive Applications with Market-Leading CoreMark Performance
Circuit Cellar
|December 2024
Renesas Electronics Corp., a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, introduced the RA8E1 and RA8E2 microcontroller (MCU) groups, extending the industry's most powerful series of MCUs.
Introduced in 2023, the RA8 Series MCUs are the first to implement the Arm Cortex-M85 processor, enabling them to deliver market-leading 6.39 CoreMark/MHz1 performance. The new RA8E1 and RA8E2 MCUS offer the same performance but with a streamlined feature set that reduces costs, making them excellent candidates for high-volume applications such as industrial and home automation, office equipment, healthcare, and consumer products.
This story is from the December 2024 edition of Circuit Cellar.
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