Microcontrollers & Microprocessors (MCUs, MPUs)

Renesas ships more than 3.5 billion MCUs per year, with approximately 50% in Automotive and roughly 20 Renesas MCUs in each automobile, while the other 50% are in other key markets like Industrial, IoT, and Infrastructure. Renesas has the broadest portfolio of 8-, 16- and 32-bit devices, and is the #1 supplier in 16- and 32-bit MCUs. We ensure supply continuity to our customers by deploying dual source manufacturing for the majority of our MCUs. Renesas has been a trusted, reliable supplier delivering billions of safe and secure MCUs for decades.

Available in a wide array of memory and package options, Renesas microcontrollers and microprocessors are fast, highly reliable, low in cost, and deliver eco-friendly performance. Incorporating the latest process technology to enable large-capacity flash memory integration, our MCUs and MPUs are used in a wide array of applications, including demanding fields that require high quality and high reliability.

Renesas offers the broadest portfolio of ultra-low-power to high-performance MCUs in the market to meet the needs of smart embedded electronics. Renesas MCUs are designed to enable the highest levels of safety and security by offering dedicated hardware features combined with certified software libraries to safeguard the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of any solution.

All Renesas MCUs are designed to support ultimate flexibility for designers with complete functional and pin-to-pin compatibility across device families. This enables our customers to quickly diversify and grow their application footprint while maintaining their platform concept with maximum software and hardware reuse.

Renesas MCU / MPU Selection Tool

Featured Product Families

Arm® Core and RISC-V Core

32/64-bit MPU

High Performance

Max operating frequency: 125MHz-1.5GHz

Features:

• Multi-core up to 8 cores
• Linux or RTOS available
• High-capacity on-chip RAM
• DRP^*1 image processing acceleration
• DRP-AI DNN acceleration

*1 DRP: Dynamically Reconfigurable Processor

Arm® Core

32-bit MCU

Arm Ecosystem

Max operating frequency: 48-200MHz

Features:

• High efficiency
• Advanced security
• Flexible Software Package

32-bit MCU

Qualified Platform

Max operating frequency: 32-240MHz

Features:

• Qualified software and tools

Renesas Core

32-bit MCU

Power Efficiency

Max operating frequency: 32-240MHz

Features:

• Superior power efficiency
• High-capacity flash memories
• Broad lineup

8/16-bit MCU

Low Power

Max operating frequency: 16-32MHz

Features:

• Ultra-low energy
• Low pin count lineup available

32-bit MCU (Automotive)

For Automotive

Others

Other MCUs and MPUs