MCUs Suit Portable Smart Metering, Medical Applications

MSC offers eight new low power 32-bit MCUs in the V850ES/Jx3-L Series from Renesas Electronics. These devices are suited to mobile smart metering and medical applications with high memory demand. The typical current consumption of the MCUs with up to 1 MB flash memory and 80 KB of RAM is 14 mA, and the standby current 1.5 µA. Four of the new V850ES/Jx3-L devices, designed for clock frequencies from 2.5 MHz to 20 MHz, are available with a USB 2.0 Full Speed communication interface, which supports simple data exchange in healthcare systems according to the Continua Alliance standard. The company provides a free V850ES/Jx3-L low power USB stick demonstrator to developers upon request. With the help of this kit, which is based on a V850ES/JG3-L MCU with 512 KB flash memory, the different standby modes can be tested.

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