IoT software specialist Wind River and Renesas Electronics Corporation are expanding their collaboration for connected, advanced driver assist systems (ADAS), and autonomous driving programmes, including plans to pre-validate Wind River software with the latest Renesas R-Car systems-on-chip (SoCs).

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, has announced that Wi-SUN Alliance has adopted Renesas’ sub-gigahertz (Sub-G) wireless solution as a candidate of the interoperability test bed units (TBUs) for the Wi-SUN FAN (Field Area Network) Certification Program.

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics Corporation, has introduced a new IO-Link master development kit to accelerate IO-Link-based application development for industrial networked devices in a smart factory. The development kit includes a board and pre-qualified sample software provided by TMG.

Renesas Electronics Corporation has announced that it is expanding its strategic technology partnership with Mahindra & Mahindra, a developer of electric vehicles (EVs), and Mahindra Racing, one of the ten founding teams competing in the ABB FIA Formula E Championship, for the 2018-19 season.

  Batteries in IoT devices could be redundant as energy harvesting progresses with reduced active and standby current consumption in the RF70E embedded controller, based on Renesas Electronics’ silicon on thin buried oxide (SOTB) process technology.

Renesas develop its third-generation 32-bit RX CPU core, the RXv3. The RXv3 CPU core will be employed in Renesas’ new RX microcontroller families that begin rolling out at the end of 2018. The new MCUs are designed to address the real-time performance and enhanced stability required by motor control and industrial applications in next-generation smart factory, smart home and smart infrastructure equipment.

Renesas Electronics is announcing the release of the GUI CAR (Customisable Analysis Report) Tool, an innovative safety analysis tool that will enhance customers’ ability to quickly integrate Renesas products into their safety-critical automotive systems while increasing user confidence in system compliance to the latest safety standard.

Embedded artificial intelligence (e-AI) is paving the way towards a safer, healthier, greener and smarter world. Renesas Electronics, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced it will showcase its innovations that are transforming the embedded design landscape at the electronica trade fair, which takes place November 13-16, 2018 at the Munich Trade Fair Centre. 

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, has announced a new family of automotive-grade 100V, four amp half-bridge N-channel MOSFET drivers. The ISL784x4 family features three devices: the ISL78424 and ISL78444 with single tri-level PWM input for controlling both gate drivers, and the ISL78434, which has dual independent inputs that separately control the high-side and low-side drivers. 

Renesas announced the ISL70591SEH and ISL70592SEH radiation-hardened precision current sources designed to provide current excitation to the more than 300 resistive sensors that monitor the health of a satellite’s subsystems. The two new Renesas devices are the first current source ICs in its line of space products, and are ideally suited for telemetry, tracking & command, attitude & orbital control, and electrical power subsystem a...

To address the increasing demand for large-scale digital instrument clusters among all class of vehicles, Renesas extends the scalable range of the R-Car family of system-on-chip (SoC) devices with the introduction of the R-Car E3 to realize high-end 3D graphics on the largest class of displays used for automotive instrument clusters – 12.3 inches, 1,920 x 720 pixels. Combining the smooth 3D rendering capabilities with integrated audio DSP ...

Renesas announced an innovative new family of bidirectional four-switch synchronous buck-boost controllers. The ISL81601 and ISL81401 are the industry’s only true bidirectional controllers that sense peak current at both ends and provide cycle-by-cycle current limit in both directions while in buck or boost mode.

Renesas has announced they are expanding their partnership to offer an integrated virtualisation, functional safety and secure development environment for the Renesas R-Car system-on-chip (SoC) devices. Using BlackBerry’s QNX software, it was developed as part of the companies’ ongoing strategic relationship to advance autonomous and connected driving technology.

Renesas announce a strategic alliance with Alibaba Cloud that will empower Internet of Things developers to accelerate the growth of China’s IoT market. The close technology collaboration includes embedding AliOS Things IoT operating system in the Renesas RX65N/RX651 microcontroller lineup, expanding online sales channels, and Renesas joining Alibaba’s IoT ecosystem.

Renesas introduced a new design environment for its powerful RZ/A1 microprocessors to simplify and accelerate the development of rich human-machine interface- (HMI) and camera- and GUI-based applications, such as industrial equipment, building controls, home automation, medical devices, white goods, and video surveillance and video/fingerprint based access control.

Renesas is expanding access to its extensive portfolio of intellectual property licenses that allow designers to meet a broad range of customised customer requirements in a rapidly changing industry. Renesas has incorporated a broad range of IP into its microcontrollers and system on chip products spans, including central processing unit IP, communication interface IP, timer IP, memory IP, and analog IP. 

Advanced semiconductor solutions supplier, Renesas Electronics, has announced an innovative new family of bidirectional four-switch synchronous buck-boost controllers. The ISL81601 and ISL81401 are true bidirectional controllers that sense peak current at both ends and provide cycle-by-cycle current limit in both directions while in buck or boost mode.

Renesas Electronics is expanding its range of embedded artificial intelligence (e-AI) solutions for incorporating AI into embedded systems by bringing intelligence to endpoints. Approximately 150 companies in more than ten countries worldwide are already conducting trials based on this technology, and there are more than 30 actual e-AI use cases underway. Renesas has now developed a new RZ/A2M MPU to expand the use of e-AI solution...

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, has announced the Renesas Synergy AE-CLOUD2 kit, a complete hardware and software reference design that allows embedded developers to quickly evaluate cellular connectivity options and build Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) cellular Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

Renesas has introduced an integrated open Image Signal Processor (ISP) solution to further ease and speed the development of automotive smart camera applications based on the Renesas high performance R-Car V3M and R-Car V3H System-on-Chips (SoCs). Integrating the ISP on the R-Car V3x SoCs and leveraging MM Solutions’ Automotive Camera Development Kit (AutoCDK), the open ISP solution on R-Car SoCs enables automotive Tier 1s to simplify ...