Renesas Expands SuperH(R) Family, Adding SH7730 Group With a 200/266MHz SH-4A CPU Core for Industrial Applications and a Wide Range of Others.The New 32-Bit Microprocessors Have A/D A/D See advance-decline line (A/D). and D/A Converters, Use a QFP (Quad FlatPack) A square, surface mount chip package that has leads on all four sides and comes in several varieties. PQFP (Plastic QFP) may refer to all of the following QFP types. All quad flatpacks use gull-wing leads, except for the CQFP, which stick straight out. Package, and Achieve a Maximum 1.8-Times Boost in Performance Over Renesas SH7709S Devices SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Renesas Technology America, Inc. today announced the SH7730 group: three 32-bit microprocessors for use in a wide range of multimedia applications, such as digital consumer products and industrial equipment. The devices strengthen the company's popular line of SuperH[R] RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. (Reduced Instruction Set Computer (processor) Reduced Instruction Set Computer - (RISC) A processor whose design is based on the rapid execution of a sequence of simple instructions rather than on the provision of a large variety of complex instructions (as in a Complex Instruction Set Computer). ) solutions that incorporate the fast SH-4A superscalar CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. core. The microprocessors in the SH7730 group are the successors to the devices in Renesas' SH7709S group. The new devices replace the SH-3 CPU core used in previous-generation devices with a top-end, upward-compatible SH-4A CPU core based on a superscalar architecture that enables faster application performance. Also, they use an environment-friendly lead-free 208-pin QFP package that allows product designs to be built with lower-cost circuit boards such as 4-layer types. The SH-4A CPU delivers processing performance of 480 MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. (million instructions per second Noun 1. million instructions per second - (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system); "4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second" MIPS ) at 266MHz clock speeds -- an approximately 1.8-fold improvement over SH7709S devices -- and achieves a low power consumption level of 0.6mA/MHz. The devices have large-capacity on-chip cache memories (32Kbytes each for instructions and data) and RAM (16Kbytes) for accelerating software processing speeds. The devices' on-chip floating point unit (FPU) and memory management unit (MMU) also allow fast execution of arithmetic processing of screen graphics and communication/multimedia protocols. The SH-4A CPU is upward compatible with the SH-3 CPU so that existing software resources can be repurposed to save system development time and expense. Many on-chip peripheral functions are provided by the microprocessors in the SH7730 group. There are up to six serial interface channels with a built-in FIFO (First In First Out) A storage method that retrieves the item stored for the longest time. Contrast with LIFO. See traffic engineering methods. FIFO - first-in first-out (first-in, first-out) buffer, up to fourteen 32-bit or 16-bit timer channels, and a 6-channel DMA (direct memory access) controller, as well as a 4-channel 10-bit A/D converter and 2-channel 10-bit D/A converter. Additionally, the devices provide a variety of timers and an I2C interface. The built-in 66MHz SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. (synchronous DRAM) interface bus frequency is the same as the one for SH7709S devices, which simplifies board bus design and allows the reuse of existing external memory implementations. The devices' have an on-chip debugging function which enables real-time debugging at the maximum operating frequency. To aid system development, Renesas offers a complete suite of development tools designed specially for the SH7730 devices. The E10A-USB on-chip debugging emulator is available as a development environment, and system development can be carried out efficiently using the high-performance user debug interface (HUDI) and advanced user debug (AUD AUD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Australian Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) functions. The High-performance Embedded Workshop software package includes a comprehensive suite of software tools and offers project management capability. Renesas Technology will continue to develop SH-4A CPU core products, and to extend the product lineup with the development of models offering higher performance and functionality. Among the development projects planned are a dual-core CPU implementation and support for various high-speed interfaces. Price and availability [TABLE OMITTED] About Renesas Technology Corp. Renesas Technology Corp. is one of the world's leading semiconductor system solutions providers for mobile, automotive and PC/AV (Audio Visual) markets and the world's No.1 supplier of microcontrollers. It is also a leading provider of LCD Driver ICs, Smart Card microcontrollers, RF-ICs, High Power Amplifiers, Mixed Signal ICs, System-on-Chip (SoC), System-in-Package (SiP) and more. Established in 2003 as a joint venture between Hitachi, Ltd. (TOKYO:6501) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HIT) and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503), Renesas Technology achieved consolidated revenue of 953billion JPY JPY In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Japanese Yen. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. in FY2006 (end of March 2007). Renesas Technology is based in Tokyo, Japan and has a global network of manufacturing, design and sales operations in around 20 countries with about 26,500 employees worldwide. For further information, please visit http://www.renesas.com. Notes: SuperH is a trademark of Renesas Technology Corp. Other product names, company names, or brands mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Specifications: Renesas Technology SH7730 Group 32-bit SuperH Microcontrollers [TABLE OMITTED] |
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