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New Renesas RZ/T2N MPU Integrates Motor Control, Industrial Ethernet and Application Processing for Robots and Industrial Equipment

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Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723) introduced the RZ/T2N, a 64-bit microprocessor (MPU) that combines high-precision real-time motor control, industrial Ethernet and application processing on a single chip. The device has dual Arm Cortex-A55 cores (up to 1.2 GHz) for application processing and two Cortex-R52 cores (up to 800 MHz) for real-time processing; each Cortex-R52 core has 576 KB of tightly coupled memory (TCM) with ECC, and the chip integrates motor control peripherals for up to four axes, enabling single-chip motor control for industrial robots such as SCARA and delta robots. Encoder interfaces provide two channels per axis and support Tamagawa T-Format, HIPERFACE DSL, A-format, EnDat 2.2 and BiSS C, as well as the latest EnDat 3 and BiSS Line protocols. The chip includes three Gigabit Ethernet MACs (GMACs), an Ethernet switch and an EtherCAT SubDevice Controller (ESC), supports major industrial Ethernet protocols including EtherCAT, PROFINET RT/IRT and EtherNet/IP, redundancy protocols including HSR, PRP and FRER, and security features including a cryptographic library, secure boot, secure firmware update and Arm TrustZone; it supports 16-bit LPDDR4-1600 memory with on-the-fly decryption/encryption, ECC protection across all memory, and shares a common Linux package and Flexible Software Package (FSP) with the RZ/T2x and RZ/N2x series. Functional safety software solutions, proven on the RZ/T2x and RZ/N2x series, are planned for availability in the second half of 2027. The product will be demonstrated live at electronica 2026, November 10–13 in Munich, Germany (Renesas booth: Hall C5, Stand 479).