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News Release from: Renesas Technology Europe | Subject: RS45C
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 March 2008

MCU brings more processing power to
smart cards

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Secure smart card microcontroller has a CPU core with a performance approximately five-times that of previous Renesas Technology products.

Renesas Technology Europe has released details of the RS45C, a secure MCU for smart cards requiring a high level of security such as ID, banking and credit cards The RS45C is built around the RS-4 high-performance 16bit CPU core and integrates 36Kbyte of electrically erasable and programmable read-only memory (EEPROM)

The successor to Renesas' AE-4 series, the RS-4 series of 16bit secure MCUs meets market demands for increased processing performance.