Renesas Expands its RZ/G System-on-Chip Family with HMI, IoT-Focused RZ/G3L and RZ/G3SE

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Renesas has announced two new entries in its RZ/G family, targeting human-machine interface (HMI) and the edge of the Internet of Things (IoT) respectively: the RZ/G3L and RZ/G3SE, both pin-compatible.

"As industrial and IoT devices grow more sophisticated, customers need to balance performance, power consumption, connectivity and design scalability," says Renesas' Hari Pendurty in support of the latest RZ/G chips to come out of the company's research and development labs. "The RZ/G3L and RZ/G3SE were developed to help customers meet these evolving requirements and scale products more efficiently by leveraging a common hardware platform across different applications."

Remesas has launched new RZ/G-series chips, the RZ/G3L (above) with graphics processor and RZ/G3SE without, alongside evaluation boards (top). (đź“·: Renesas)

The RZ/G3L is the model targeting human-machine interfaces. Its design includes two or four Arm Cortex-A55 cores running at up to 1.2GHz alongside a Corex-M33 system control core running at 200MHz, with...

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