Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics Europe, has announced that it successfully held its first European R-Car Consortium (RCC) forum. The forum, held on 9th November 2017 in Düsseldorf, attracted a large audience of participants from over 35 automotive OEM and Tier 1 and connected car specialised IT providers. The R-Car Family is Renesas’ family of innovative and high-performance systems-on-chip (SoC) for a...

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, has announced the expansion of its RX65N/RX651 group of microcontroller (MCU) lineup that addresses advanced security needs for connected devices operating in industrial automation, building automation, and smart metering systems. The expanded lineup features MCUs with integrated Trusted Secure IP, and enhanced, trusted flash functionality and human-machine interface (HMI) for ind...

Watch this video from Renesas to learn how real time IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) gateway solution connect sensor end points to a gateway that supports a secure cloud connection, and acts as an OPC UA Server aggregator.

  Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, has announced a new solution package for its RZ/T1 Group of microprocessors (MPUs) supporting HIPERFACE DSL digital encoder interface for AC servo applications. The support of HIPERFACE DSL for RZ/T1 reduces the customer’s system bill-of-materials (BOM) cost and enables faster time-to-market.

Renesas Electronics has announced it will establish a “New Energy Vehicle Solution Centre” on November 1, 2017, directly under the China Business Unit to accelerate engagement with the Chinese NEV market. With the announcements by the governments of Britain and France of policies aimed at prohibiting the manufacture and sale of gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles by 2040, the trend away from gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicle...

Renesas Electronics has announced that its automotive technologies will drive Toyota Motor Corporation’s autonomous vehicles, which are presently under development and scheduled for commercial launch in 2020. Selected by Toyota and Denso Corporation, Renesas’ autonomous-driving vehicle solution for Toyota’s autonomous vehicles combines the R-Car SoC, which serves as an electronic brain for in-vehicle infotainment and ADAS, and t...

Renesas Electronics has announced its high-performance R-Car D3 automotive infotainment system SoC, designed to expand the use of 3D graphics instrument clusters (3D clusters) that support 3D graphics displays in entry-class cars. The R-Car D3 achieves both high-performance graphic capabilities and contributes to significant reduction in overall system development cost.

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, has announced the rapid expansion of its partner ecosystem with new third-party software tightly integrated into the Renesas Synergy Platform. Developers can access these and other third-party Verified Software Add-ons (VSAs) and validated Partner Projects on the Synergy Gallery website. The site includes solutions for security technology, communication protocols, wireless dr...

  Renesas Electronics, Australian Semiconductor Technology Company Pty Ltd (ASTC), and VLAB Works, have announced a joint development of the VLAB/IMP-TASimulator VP for Renesas’ R-Car V3M, an automotive SoC for advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) and in-vehicle infotainment systems.

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, has announced that the Renesas e² studio integrated software development environment now has been expanded with new features to support the R-Car V3M SoC for in-vehicle infotainment and advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS). e² studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) based on the open-source Eclipse C/C++ Development Tooling (CDT) software an...

Renesas Electronics has announced the Renesas RZ/G Linux Platform featuring the industrial-grade Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) Super Long-Term Support (SLTS) Linux kernel, which enables Linux-based embedded systems to be maintained for more than 10 years. The new Renesas RZ/G Linux Platform provides a verified Linux package with cloud-maintenance and development options that makes it easy for embedded developers to leverage Linux for h...

  Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, has announced the latest update of its Renesas Synergy Platform, the qualified, maintained and fully supported software/hardware platform that accelerates time to market, reduces total cost of ownership and removes the obstacles engineers face designing Internet of Things (IoT) products.

  The R-Car reference package for Android for Renesas R-Car automotive System-on-Chips (SoCs) is now avaliable from Renesas. This package supports Android 8.0, the latest OS announced by Google on 22nd August 2017.

Due to the upcoming requirements of multi-media applications and driver assistance systems, the volume of communication data in a car is continuously increasing. Network architectures will soon require new topologies to cope with those requirements and ensure data security. Roland Lieder, Renesas Electronics Europe explains.

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas has announced that it has been honoured with the AutoSens Awards 2017 in the hardware innovation category for its innovative development in Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS) and automated driving. The award ceremony was held during AutoSens on 20th September at the Atomium in Brussels, Belgium.

Renesas Electronics and Cogent Embedded have announced their joint development of a 3D surround view solution to assist drivers during parking or low speed manoeuvres. Designed for parking assist systems in entry and mid-level cars, the new solution combines the Renesas R-Car V3M System-on-Chip (SoC), which incorporates a dedicated image rendering unit (IMR) that delivers realistic 360º surround view, with Cogent’s customisable softwar...

Renesas Electronics has announced a new voice-over-power line communication (PLC) solution that enables both data communication and voice communication capabilities over existing power networks. The PLC solution reduces the amount of internal wiring required in buildings, enabling reduced implementation and maintenance costs for public address (PA) systems and security systems.

It has been announced that Renesas Electronics and Codeplay Software are collaborating to deliver ComputeAorta, Codeplay’s OpenCL open standard-based software framework for Renesas R-Car system-on-chips (SoCs). The framework will be available first on R-Car H3 as a proof of concept, then focusing on R-Car V3M and other R-Car SoCs of the Renesas autonomy Platform for advanced driving assistance system (ADAS) and automated driving.

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, has announced that its R-Car system-on-chip (SoC) for car infotainment and advanced driving assistant systems (ADAS) as well as its RH850 automotive control microcontroller (MCU) have been adopted by Nissan for the ProPILOT Park, a full-fledged automated-parking system, of its new LEAF, Nissan’s new 100% electric vehicle which debuted on 6th September 2017.

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, has announced a new high-sensitivity, high-resolution 8.48 megapixel (MP) CMOS image sensor (RAA462113FYL) that supports 4K video cameras. In conjunction with the existing Renesas 2.12 MP product that is already in mass production, Renesas will be providing full-scale sales support for its high-end CMOS image sensor for network security cameras.