R32C and its Relatives

Our series on the R8C13 ‘Tom Thumb’ was deservedly popular with Elektor readers, who will doubtless be pleased to hear this little 16-bit microcontroller has just gained a talented sibling. The R32C/111, his mathematically gifted big brother, is blessed with 32-bit architecture, Floating Point Unit arithmetic and a 50 MHz clock rate. The R8C and the R32C are both from Renesas’ M16C family, making the upgrade to the more versatile 32-bit system extremely simple.