H8 Family

An administrator on the Renesas user community boards commented in 2011 that there are no plans for further development of H8 based products.

[2] For higher performance needs, Hitachi introduced its SuperH family of 32-bit RISC-like microcontrollers, which have largely replaced the H8.

Subfamilies include the 8/16-bit H8/300 and H8/500, the 16/32-bit H8/300H and H8S and the 32-bit H8SX series, each with dozens of different variants, varying by speed, selection of built-in peripherals such as timers, interrupts[3] and serial ports, and amounts of ROM, flash memory and RAM.

[4] Several companies provide compilers for the H8 family, and there is a complete GCC port, including a simulator.

H8S may be found in digital cameras, the Cybiko handheld computers, some ThinkPad notebooks,[5][6] printer controllers, smart cards, chess computers, music synthesizers such as the Yamaha FS1R,[7] Roland SC-55 and Roland JV880[8] and in various automotive subsystems.