First Mcus Based On Arm Cortex-m85 Boost Dsp, Ai/ml Performance

Renesas Electronics Corporation has introduced the most powerful microcontrollers (MCUs) available, delivering breakthrough performance of over 3000 CoreMark points, with fully deterministic, low latency, real-time operation. The new RA8 Series MCUs are the industry’s first to implement the Arm® Cortex®-M85 processor, enabling the new devices to deliver industry-leading 6.39 CoreMark/MHz. This level of performance will allow system designers to use the RA MCUs in applications that previously required microprocessors (MPUs). The RA8 Series MCUs deploy Arm Helium™ technology, Arm’s M-Profile Vector Extension, providing a 4X performance boost for digital signal processor (DSP) and machine learning (ML) implementations. This performance uplift can enable customers to eliminate an additional DSP in their systems for certain applications.