RZ/T2M motor control processor tops precision control performance says Renesas
Renesas’ highest performance RZ/T2M motor control microprocessors for applications such as AC servo drives and industrial robots have been released. The RZ/T2M combines fast and highly precise real time motor control capabilities and the industrial Ethernet on a single chip, while also supporting functional safety operation.
The RZ/T2M provides all essential peripheral functions for motor control, said Renesas, to reduce the number of external components, required, producing benefits for bill of material (BoM) costs, and product size.
“The RZ/T2M is capable of controlling the servo motors that drive robots at extremely high speed and with high precision,” confirmed Toshihide Tsuboi, vice president of Industrial Automation at Renesas. “I anticipate that it will contribute to the development and widespread adoption of sophisticated industrial robots that can work safely alongside humans,” he added.
The RZ/T2M is built around two Arm Cortex-R52 cores with a maximum operating frequency of 800MHz. Connecting the peripheral functions used for motor control to a dedicated bus linked directly to the CPU enables the CPU to access these functions with low latency. The large memory capacity (576kbyte) is tightly coupled with the CPU, reducing the fluctuation in execution time that can occur when cache memory is used and delivering deterministic, fast response processing. These advantages enable the RZ/T2M to deliver rapid and highly precise control for applications that require high performance such as AC servos, inverters, and industrial robots, said Renesas.
In addition to major industrial networking protocols such as EtherCAT, PROFINET RT, and EtherNet/IP, Renesas has added support for the PROFINET IRT protocol in the RZ/T2M. The processor also includes an Ethernet switch that supports the next-generation time-sensitive networking (TSN) standard, allowing multiple devices to operate in precise synchronisation.
Later this year Renesas plans to release functional safety solutions, including a SIL3-certified software kit combination that includes a self-test software kit enabling failure self-diagnosis by the RZ/T2M, and a SIL3 system software kit for mutual diagnosis and software isolation functionality. IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm Functional Safety Edition, an integrated development environment (IDE) certified for functional safety-related development will support the RZ/T2M processors.
The RZ/T2M and the Renesas Starter Kit+ for RZ/T2M evaluation board are available now.
