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5 Renesas RX23E-B controllers

Jan Cumps

What the title says . Good analogue front end, low noise, many bits ADC. None of that ARM rubish :)

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  • in reply to shabaz

    Looks like the behaviour is different depending on what you do in KiCAD. This works:

    In library editor, select Add Library, then select if you want to add it to all (Global) or to the current project only.
    In essence, it just adds an entry to the library table, that points to the file.

    From then on, all symbols are available:

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    I can also copy-paste the individual symbols now, between libraries. Makes sense if you add it to global, but want an independent copy in the local lib for your project.

    When I do import, I have the same behaviour as you describe ... Only symbol 1 (from the 3 available) imports ...

    Seems that Import is more suited for symbols that you earlier exported to a symbol file, with the Export menu. 

  • The power part broken out

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    and the timer breakout for AC excitation / bias generation

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  • The clock part. I'm going very slow - daytime job is hectic at the moment

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  • in reply to Jan Cumps

    Where did the load caps come from? They look low in value to me.

    If the 32.768kHz xtal is cut for 3.7pF, then assuming a pin/track value of something like 1.5pF (if you keep it compact and close to the pins), 5.6pF might work better. (5.6pF+1.5pF)/2 = 3.55pF

  • in reply to jc2048

    I used one of the Renesas reference designs: 

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    BOM

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    (schematic and BOM source Renesas website)

    The hardware manual (§9.3 and §9.5) contains the calculations, but I didn't use them.

  • in reply to Jan Cumps

    How curious. It would still work (it would probably work without any load caps and just the pin capacitance), but it would be a bit skittish and the RTC isn't going to keep very good time.

  • in reply to jc2048

    I will keep this in mind. I bought "a lot" of 1206 capacitors. I chose that size because they are easy to switch out.

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    I ordered enough to cover the "not bulk capacitance" spectrum. And then some ...

    1p - 8.2p
    10p -82p
    100p - 820p
    1n - 8.2n
    10n - 82n
    100n - 22µ

    If I manage to get the board designed (daytime job creeps into the nighttime at the moment), I can learn some more about properly designing the clock  circuit ...

  • I'm making progress. The schematic is ready for anything that is not related to the analogue front end. I had to get that out of the way, before focusing on that part;

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  • This is the scope that I've set for the PCB I'm designing. Based on Renesas' starter kit:

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    green: part of my board

    blue: I offload to separate plug-in PCBs

    red: I don't use, and make the relevant microcontroller pins available "non-committed".