Renesas Electronics R-IN32M4-CL2 Industrial Ethernet communication IC

Renesas Electronics has announced the R-IN32M4-CL2 Industrial Ethernet communication application specific standard product (ASSP). The device product extends the family of the R-IN32M3 platform, which incorporates hardware accelerators supporting real-time operating system (RTOS) performance as well as ethernet packet handling, and is said to improve network performance by up to five times faster than conventional implementations.

The unit supports Gigabit Ethernet connectivity with built-in dual Gigabit Ethernet PHYs to reduce the complexity in designing the analog circuits typically required for gigabit communication. Simplifying the PHY peripheral high-frequency analog circuit design is said to contribute to reduced development time, risk and lower overall BOM footprint and costs.

The product includes a CCLink IE Field slave controller in its hardware. CC-Link IE is an Industrial Ethernet protocol for high-speed/high-capacity field network that supports gigabit communication as well as mixed transmission of both equipment control data and management data.

The device is enhanced with an ARM Cortex-M4 processor with an FPU core running at 100 MHz and a single FPU suitable for computationally demanding and complex requirements to support process controllers, gateways and IO controllers. It also includes 8-channel 10-bit A/D converter, a 16-channel, 16-bit timer and other functions.