The microcontroller family is based on an Arm Cortex-M0+ core. It targets low power consumption IoT devices, such as wearables and also sensing applications for homes, buildings, factories and agriculture where recharging or replacing batteries can be difficult due to space constraints or accessibility. It uses Renesas’ proprietary Silicon-on-Thin-Buried-Oxide (SoTB) process technology for reduced power consumption in both active and standby states and thereby eliminating to recharge or replace batteries.
The C/C++ development toolchain can be used by developers to leverage advanced code optimisation techniques and power debugging for fast, efficient and compact designs. It can ensure code quality, says IAR, with integrated static and runtime code analysis tools. Delivered with global professional technical support and services, IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm enables efficient development of IoT applications. The toolchain is designed to encourage developers to optimise the microcontroller family’s low active and standby power and energy harvesting capability in the IoT.