In summary, the R8C family has a scalable architecture and is powerful, efficient, versatile, reliable, quiet, trusted, flexible, and has a short time-to-market. These devices are also members of the extensive M16C architecture and are fully instruction and code compatible with the many other MCUs in the platform. Also, because they incorporate multiple techniques for improving system power efficiency, R8C devices consume much less power that other 8-bit solutions. Additionally, the peripheral integration within the R8C saves cost in various ways during system development and product manufacturing. Finally, the wide variety of R8C devices available from Renesas are designed to meet the varying requirements of the many applications utilizing MCUs.