Renesas Electronics has introduced the ISL9122A, a flexible buck-boost switching regulator with bypass mode that provides ultra-low Quiescent Current (IQ) for powering sensors, microcontrollers (MCUs), wireless devices, and other system components. Operating with battery output from 1.8V to 5.5V, the ISL9122A extends the battery life of smart IoT devices powered by coin-cell, lithium and multiple series alkaline batteries.

Renesas Electronics has announced the appointment of Andreas Hammer as Vice President of Sales for the IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit in Europe, effective October 1st, 2020.

Renesas Electronics Corporation has announced the expansion of its RA6 Series microcontrollers (MCUs) with nine new RA6M4 Group MCUs, increasing the RA Family to 42 MCUs. These 32-bit MCUs boost operating performance up to 200MHz using the Arm Cortex-M33 core based on Armv8-M architecture with Arm TrustZone technology.

Renesas Electronics has announced a technology IP cooperation with Andes Technology, an advanced supplier of RISC-V based embedded CPU cores and associated SoC development environment. Renesas selected the AndesCore IP 32-bit RISC-V CPU cores to embed into its new application-specific standard products that will begin customer sampling in the second half of 2021.

Renesas Electronics has announced that ASPEED Technology has qualified the Renesas I3C IMX3102 2:1 bus multiplexer, IMX3112 1:2 bus expander, and DDR5 SPD Hub SPD5118 for its AST2600 Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) designed for use in data centres and embedded platforms and applications.

Renesas has announced the extension of the RX Functional Safety solution, with the release of its Functional Safety over EtherCAT (FSoE) Application Software Kit, a software offering that supports functional safety on EtherCAT from a semiconductor manufacturer. Renesas’ RX Functional Safety solution is a solution for industrial automation applications that reduces the complexity of IEC 61508 SIL3 certification, an international standard for...

Renesas has joined the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA).  

Renesas Electronics has announced a new high speed, low power DDR5 data buffer for data centre, server, and high performance workstation applications. Advancements over the past few years in real time analytics, machine learning, HPC, AI, and other memory and bandwidth-hungry applications have fueled explosive growth in server memory bandwidth requirements. 

Renesas Electronics has introduced the P9415-R wireless power receiver with Renesas’ exclusive WattShare technology as the newest member of its wireless power solutions portfolio. The new 15W wireless power receiver enables smartphones, power banks, and portable industrial and medical equipment, to wirelessly charge other mobile devices and accessories that also have wireless charging capabilities.

Renesas Electronics has introduced a 48V Mobility Winning Combination Solution that helps customers accelerate the development of e-scooters, e-bikes, UPS and energy storage systems. This reference design uses a modular approach in both hardware and software to showcase core and optional functional blocks that can be adopted for many 24V-48V applications such as lawn mowers, electric carts, robot cleaners, power tools, power banks, and more.

Renesas has announced a pair of new 42V dual-output synchronous controllers with the lowest 6µA quiescent current and integrated 2A source/3A sink MOSFET drivers that provide primary power stage solutions for the Renesas R-Car H3 and R-Car M3 SoCs.

Renesas Electronics has announced that more than 20 of its radiation-hardened (rad-hard) integrated circuits (ICs) were onboard the 30th July lift off of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket, with the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter onboard, launched from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Renesas Electronics has strengthened its robust RF Amplifiers portfolio with the new F1490 delivering much lower quiescent current (75mA) than competitive solutions. The F1490 is a second-generation high gain, 2-stage RF amplifier that covers the key sub-6GHz 5G frequency bands from 1.8-5.0GHz.

Renesas Electronics has announced sample shipment availability of the new RYZ012 Bluetooth module targeting ultra-low power IoT applications. The RYZ012 is Renesas' first Bluetooth Low Energy 5 module. It integrates a 2.4GHz RF transceiver supporting the IEEE802.15.4 multi-standard wireless protocol, Bluetooth Low Energy (LE), Bluetooth LE Mesh, and ZigBee.

Renesas Electronics has introduced an Ultra-High-Definition (UHD) surveillance camera reference design to address today’s high accuracy object detection and recognition needs for video security and surveillance systems.

Renesas Electronics has announced the RV1S9353A optically isolated delta-sigma (ΔΣ) modulator. According to the company, the RV1S9353A delivers the industry’s highest accuracy compared to other 10MHz clock output optically isolated devices. It includes a precision analogue-to-digital converter with ENOB of 13.8 bits (typ) for converting an analogue voltage input into a digital output one-bit data stream across the isolation...

Renesas Electronics has announced the second phase of new ready to use partner solutions supporting the Renesas RA Family of 32-bit Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers (MCUs).

Renesas Electronics has introduced the ZSSC4132 - an automotive pressure sensor solution featuring an integrated certified LIN v2.2a interface. The single-package Sensor Signal Conditioner (SSC) delivers performance, increased design flexibility, and cost efficiency in a compact form factor for HVAC applications used in Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV), Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV), and Fuel-cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV) climate contr...

Renesas Electronics has announced that Continental has adopted Renesas’ high performance Renesas R-Car M3 System-on-Chip (SoC) for its first-generation Body High Performance Computer (HPC). The HPC is an automotive computing platform that provides centralised control of vehicle systems and is equipped with secure gateway functionality to enable cloud service connectivity.

Renesas has expanded its RE Family lineup of embedded controllers with a new ultra-low power consumption member based on Renesas’ Silicon-On-Thin-Buried-Oxide (SOTB) process technology and built around the Arm Cortex-M0+ core. The newest member of the RE01 Group lineup is a 256KB flash memory variant in addition to the 1.5MB flash memory embedded controller, already in mass production.