Renesas Intros H8/36902G and H8/36912G MCUs

Renesas Technology Corp. (San Jose, CA) announced its new H8/36902G and H8/36912G low-cost, 16-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) with on-chip flash or mask ROM memory, new members of the H8 Tiny family. Both devices are designed to meet the system requirements of home appliances where they can be used to replace electromechanical and discrete electrical components. The MCUs can also be used for home and industrial security systems, control systems, fluorescent light ballast products, light dimmers and other embedded applications.

The MCUs are based on an H8/300H CPU core with a 64 KB address space. They provide up to 8 KB of flash memory or mask ROM and up to 1.5 KB of RAM, and run up to 12 MHz (1:1 oscillation). To simplify system designs, both the H8/36902G and H8/36912G have on-chip peripherals for embedded applications. They incorporate a high-speed, on-chip oscillator; main clock oscillator; eight-bit timer; 16-bit timer with input-capture/output-compare and pulse width modulation mode; a four-channel, 10-bit ADC; a watchdog timer; an asynchronous/synchronous serial communications channel; and power-on reset and LVD functions.

Samples of the H8/36902G in the SSOP package are now available, priced at $1.75 for 10,000-unit quantities. The H8/36912G is priced at $1.60 for 10,000-unit quantities.