Renesas and OpenSynergy have announced that the Renesas’ System-on-Chip (SoC) R-Car H3 and OpenSynergy’s COQOS Hypervisor SDK have been adopted on Parrot Faurecia’s automotive safe multi-display cockpit. The latest version of Android is the guest OS of the COQOS Hypervisor, which executes the instrument cluster functionality, including safety-relevant display elements based on Linux, and the Android-based in-...

In this short video from Renesas, you will learn how to set up the ISL9237 evaluation board and connect the EVB to the GUI interface.

Renesas is buying Integrated Device Technology for $6.7bn. The boards of directors of both companies have unanimously approved the transaction. Closing of the transaction is expected to occur in the first half of 2019, following approvals by IDT shareholders and the relevant regulatory authorities.

The Renesas S3A1 microcontroller group, now available from Rutronik UK, is suited for all applications that require a high level of security and IoT device-to-cloud connectivity. The MCUs have been released alongside the v.1.4.0 version update for the Synergy Software Package (SSP). S3A1 devices provide a host of analogue and security features to realise a variety of embedded systems and IoT designs at a competitive price point.

Renesas Electronics has announced two new PMBus compliant, fully digital DC/DC controllers that provide single output point-of-load (POL) conversions for FPGAs, DSPs, ASICs, network processors and general purpose system rails. The ISL68300 with integrated MOSFET drivers and ISL68301 with PWM output simplify designing power supplies for data centre, wired and wireless communications, and factory automation equipment.

Renesas Electronics has announced the 'R-Car virtualisation support package' that enables easier development of hypervisors for the R-Car automotive system-on-chip (SoC). The R-Car virtualisation support package includes, at no charge, both the R-Car hypervisor development guide document and sample software for use as reference in such development for software vendors who develop the embedded hypervisors that are required for integrated cock...

Renesas Electronics has announced an update to its 'Embedded Target for RH850Multicore' model-based development environment for multicore microcontrollers (MCUs) for automotive control applications. The update supports development of systems with multirate control (multiple control periods), which is now common in systems such as engine and body control systems.

Along with the version update v.1.4.0 for the Synergy Software Package (SSP), Renesas has released a group of microcontrollers for the SSP. The S3A1 group is suited for all applications that require a high level of security and IoT device-to-cloud connectivity. The S3A1 MCU Group devices provide a host of analogue and security features to realise a variety of embedded systems and IoT designs at a competitive price point.

Best practices for new designs of Profibus DP nodes, bus node isolation, Profibus compliance, and bus signal polarity are discussed by Tom Kugelstadt, Renesas Electronics

Renesas Electronics and Magna, a mobility technology company are aiming to accelerate the mass adoption of Advanced Driving Assistance System (ADAS) features with a new cost efficient 3D surround view system designed for entry- and mid-range vehicles. The 3D surround view system adopts Renesas’ high performance, low power System-on-Chip (SoC) optimised for smart camera and surround view systems.

Renesas Electronics has announced three programmable power management ICs (PMICs) that offer the highest power efficiency and smallest footprint for application processors in smartphones and tablets: the ISL91302B, ISL91301A, and ISL91301B PMICs. The PMICs also deliver power to artificial intelligence (AI) processors, FPGAs, and industrial microprocessors (MPUs), and they are suitable for powering the supply rails in solid-state drives (SSDs), op...

  Renesas Electronics has announced an expansion of its healthcare solution lineup with the launch of a new blood pressure monitoring evaluation kit. The new blood pressure monitoring evaluation kit comprises hardware and software elements needed to jump start blood pressure measurement design.

The sample shipment of the flash memory microcontroller using a 28nm process technology has been announced by Renesas Electronics. To contribute to the realisation of next-gen green cars and autonomous vehicles with higher efficiency and higher reliability, the RH850/E2x Series MCU incorporates up to six 400MHz CPU cores, which according to the company makes it the first on-chip flash memory automotive MCU to achieve the industry's high...

Renesas Electronics has announced the winners of its annual MCU Car Rally competition for university students at embedded world 2018 in Nuremberg, Germany. Twenty-eight teams from 16 universities all over Europe, comprising approximately 150 students and their professors, participated in the challenge by each developing a functioning model rally car that includes sensors to detect a white line on the track and an RX MCU from Renesas to provide sy...

Renesas Electronics has announced the RV2X6376A Series of directly modulated laser (DML) diodes. The DML diodes deliver 25 Gbps x four wavelengths as the light source in 100 Gbps optical transceivers that enable high-speed communications inside 4.9G and 5G LTE base stations, and between data center routers and servers. The RV2X6376A Series are the industry’s first DML diodes that support full 25 Gbps speed (per individual laser) and industr...

Renesas Electronics Corporation has announced its latest solution kit based on the RZ/N1L Group of microprocessors (MPUs), in addition to the RZ/N1D group, which are for high-end processors for master devices including Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) and the RZ/N1S Group for mid-range devices including Human Machine Interface (HMI), the RZ/N Series includes the RZ/N1L Group is optimised for slave devices including remote IO and communication ...

Renesas Electronics has announced its latest industrial Ethernet module solution, the I-RJ45, which incorporates a single- or dual-port RJ45 connector and simplifies integration for industrial Ethernet by supporting various industrial network slave applications including sensors and transmitters, gateways, operator terminals and remote I/O.

Renesas Electronics Corporation has announced at this year's embedded world show, the new Renesas Synergy Enterprise Cloud Toolbox v1.1, a software Application Project that together with the Synergy AE-CLOUD1 kit provides a reference design and starting point for users to connect in ten minutes or less to enterprise clouds such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform.

Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS) and automated driving technologies such as autonomous-driving vehicles are now becoming more of a reality, thanks to the rapid enhancement in technologies. Renesas Electronics Corporation announced its new R-Car V3H system-on-chip (SoC) that delivers high computer vision performance and AI processing at industry-leading low power levels, targeting automotive front cameras for use in mass-produced Level 3...

Renesas Electronics has announced the newly updated Renesas Synergy Platform website and Solutions Gallery that place the power of the Synergy ecosystem – from software to hardware – into the developers’ hands. The site refresh makes it easier for Renesas Synergy users to take advantage of the entire Synergy ecosystem including LTE cellular, Bluetooth low energy, advanced WiFi connectivity, and comprehensive security solutions.