Renesas Launches Quad-Core Application Processor for Industrial Robots, PLCs, Motion Controllers

The RZ/T2H from Renesas Electronics is the highest performance microprocessor (MPU) offered by the company for industrial equipment. It is capable of high-speed, high-precision control of industrial robot motors for up to 9 axes and supports a variety of network communications, including Industrial Ethernet on a single chip. The MPU targets industrial controller equipment such as programmable logic controllers (PLCs), motion controllers, distributed control systems (DCSs), and computerized numerical controls (CNCs). The RZ/T2H allows industrial customers to leverage their existing design assets while addressing more innovative, demanding industrial motor control and Linux applications. 
 
The RZ/T2H is equipped with four Arm® Cortex®-A55 application CPUs with a maximum operating frequency of 1.2 GHz. For external memory, it supports 32-bit LPDDR4-3200 SDRAM. Two Cortex-R52 CPUs with a maximum operating frequency of 1 GHz handle the real-time processing, with each core equipped with a total of 576 KB of high-capacity tightly coupled memory (TCM). This allows high CPU- and memory-intensive tasks such as running Linux applications, robot trajectory generation, and PLC sequence processing, to be executed on a single chip. At the same time, the RZ/T2H can handle fast and precise real-time control such as motor control and Industrial Ethernet protocol processing.