Designed to help engineers jump start their home appliance, building and industrial automation designs, Renesas Electronics has announced three new target boards for the RX65N, RX130 and RX231 Microcontroller (MCU) groups. Priced below $30, the target boards lower the price threshold for engagement, allowing more system developers to enjoy the benefits of Renesas’ broad-based 32-bit RX MCU Family.

  At this year's embedded world, taking place from 27th February to 1st March 2018 in Nuremberg, Germany, Renesas Electronics will be exhibiting at stand 310, hall 1. Demonstrations will highlight the company’s connectivity solutions designed to enable a Smart Society. These include demonstrations for automotive AI, factory automation, healthcare, and cloud connectivity.

An enhancement to the e² studiointegrated development environment (IDE) tool from Renesas Electronics has been announced as the latest innovation for the Renesas Synerg Platform. Through its ongoing partnership with IAR Systems, the leading embedded development tools supplier, Renesas Synergy customers can now enjoy significant performance benefits by integrating IAR Systems’ advanced IAR C/C++ Compiler into the Eclipse-based e&su...

  Rearview cameras will be mandatory in new vehicles from May this year. They will rely on real-time video to show the driver hazards, but they have their own design challenges, says Jonpaul Jandu, Renesas Electronics  

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, has announced what it claims to be the space industry’s first radiation-hardened, low side Gallium Nitride (GaN) field effect transistor (FET) driver and GaN FETs that enable primary and secondary DC/DC converter power supplies in launch vehicles and satellites, as well as downhole drilling and high reliability industrial applications.

The ISL8274M is an encapsulated dual 30A digital DC/DC PMBus power modules that delivers Point-of-Load (PoL) conversions for advanced FPGAs, DSPs, ASICs and memory used in servers, telecom, datacom, optical networking and storage equipment.  

Renesas Electronics has announced two new fully encapsulated digital DC/DC PMBus power modules that deliver the highest power density and efficiency in their class. The dual ISL8274M operates from a 5V or 12V power rail, provides two 30A outputs and up to 95.5% peak efficiency in a compact 18x23mm2 footprint.

  Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics has announced 38 new microcontrollers (MCUs) in its RX130 Group. The new MCUs extend flash memory size to 256, 384 and 512KB, and increase package size up to 100-pins to provide higher performance and compatibility with the RX231/RX230 Group of touch MCUs.

  Renesas has announced that it has expanded its RX65N/RX651 series. The new microcontrollers meet all the security requirements of endpoint devices in industrial automation, building automation, and smart metering systems. Furthermore, they enable simple firmware updates and cost effective HMI solutions.

A collaboration has been announced between Renesas Electronics and Green Hills Software for the Renesas Connected Cockpit Vehicle developed with a Dodge Ram truck. Stationed in both companies’ areas at CES 2018, the Dodge Ram 1500 truck includes many new immersive technologies and integrates production-ready automotive-grade hardware.

Renesas has announced the next-gen of its Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), automated driving, and connected cockpit demonstration vehicles. From sensor fusion to ADAS to connected cockpits, the three Renesas vehicles demonstrate fully integrated systems based on advanced, production-ready technologies that enable OEMs and Tier 1s to solve the complex challenges of autonomous vehicle design as the industry shifts from test and simulation...

A secure, high-performance automotive solution with over-the-air (OTA) capabilities has been announced by Renesas Electronics and Airbiquity, targeting advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), vehicle-to-everything (V2X), and automated driving applications of the future. To prepare for the upcoming autonomous-driving era, the two companies are integrating Airbiquity’s OTAmatic cloud-based OTA software and data management service...

In 2016 Renesas Electronics selected the city of Stratford, Ontario, Canada (sister city to Willam Shakespeare's birth city in the UK) to develop the first chapter of it’s self-driving car development programme.

  Renesas Electronics and Airbiquity have announced the release of a a secure, high performance automotive solution with Over-The-Air (OTA) capabilities, targeting Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), vehicle-to-everything (V2X), and automated driving applications of the future.

  Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, and HELLA Aglaia, one of the global developers of intelligent visual sensor systems, have announced their open and scalable front camera solution for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving.

At the SPS Drives show in Nuremberg which took place last month, Renesas Electronics announced the availability of the new RZ/N1 microprocessor (MPU) Solution Kit designed to support various industrial network applications including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), intelligent network switches, gateways, operator terminals and remote I/O solutions.

  Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, has announced that it has successfully confirmed large-scale memory operation in a split-gate metal-oxide nitride oxide silicon (SG-MONOS) process using fin-shaped 3D transistors for use in microcontrollers (MCUs) with on-chip flash memory having a circuit linewidth of 16 to 14nm or finer.

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics has announced the availability of the new RZ/N1 microprocessor (MPU) Solution Kit designed to support various industrial network applications including Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), intelligent network switches, gateways, operator terminals and remote I/O solutions.

Electric vehicle developer, Mahindra & Mahindra, and Renesas Electronics have announced the formation of a strategic partnership with Renesas as the official technology partner of the Mahindra Racing Formula E team. Moreover, in line with Mahindra’s ‘race to road’ story of the electric vehicle development that the Formula E platform delivers, both parties will work together across a number of programmes inclusive of &ls...

  Renesas Electronics Europe has announced the availability of certification packages for the Renesas Synergy S7G2, S5D9, and S3A7 microcontroller (MCU) Groups. The certification packages offer seamless integration into safety applications and reduce system development time by up to six months while minimising risk for the customer’s system certification process.