Weekly Reading: Renesas’ high-quality development tools guarantee development for RL78 microcontrollers

Renesas Electronics provides a full range of high-quality software and high-specification easy-to-use development tools for the RL78 family of microcontrollers, as well as various evaluation boards and kits for the RL78 family development environment. These include code generation tools, integrated development environments, and real-time operating systems RTOS, as well as hardware development boards, on-chip debuggers, and more. These software and tools are simple to operate and easy to use, providing strong support for microcontroller application development to ensure that users can easily and quickly use the RL series microcontrollers to build their own product projects.

Renesas' e²studio and CS+ are two integrated development environments that support RL78, RX, 78K, R7F0C and other family products, thus achieving the unification of the development environment. The very intuitive GUI in e²studio helps you embed the software into your project and easily configure the software. It also allows you to easily manage software packages that support Firmware Integration Technology (FIT), thereby increasing the versatility of the software.

In addition, e²studio and CS+ fully support smart tools (SmartManual, Smart Browser, etc.), which help improve work efficiency. e²studio also supports QE tools (Quick and Effective Tool Solutions), which use our development technology to help and increase software debugging speed. They help enhance system function development, including motor solutions, touch solutions, USB solutions, etc.

The integrated development environment CS+ supports all stages of project development, from code editing, building to debugging. It integrates all the basic software required for Renesas microcontroller software development and can be put into use immediately after installation.

The integrated development environment e² studio is a complete development and debugging environment, built on the open source integrated development environment Eclipse framework, integrating the multi-functional editor and project management tools of Eclipse CDT, as well as the extended GDB function in the debugging phase. e² studio is suitable for those who are familiar with the Eclipse environment or want to use the plug-in function of Eclipse IDE, which helps to reduce the time users spend on development.

Applilet is an independent software code automatic generation tool that can flexibly generate initialization programs and driver codes for the corresponding peripheral devices of the microcontroller according to design needs, saving development time and improving software development efficiency.

Applilet is simple to operate and easy to use. It can quickly generate the peripheral driver code required for the project. You only need to select the peripheral functions you want to use to generate the driver code, directly create a project, and then simulate and debug.

EZ-CUBE is a debugging emulator with Flash memory programming function. It can be used to debug programs or burn programs into microcontrollers with built-in Flash memory. It can be connected to the host through the USB interface without external power supply. It supports 8-bit to 32-bit microcontrollers with built-in Flash memory and can support different series of microcontrollers through firmware updates.

IECUBE is a high-performance full-spec emulator for RL78, 78K, and V850 MCUs. It offers high-performance debugging functions such as time measurement, coverage, and tracing at a cost-effective price. In addition, the self-check function detects faults in IECUBE and performs maintenance. IECUBE is simple to set up, small and light, and easy to carry, and can be held in the palm of your hand.

Renesas Electronics provides a variety of easy-to-use evaluation boards for the RL78 Family of microcontrollers, such as starter kits, target boards, and various boards produced by partners. At the same time, these development boards also provide supporting software that can be used to verify and test the functions of the microcontrollers, shortening the initial development time.