Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, has started volume shipment of its first R-Car system-on-chip (SoC) incorporating Automotive Grade Linux (AGL)-based software. AGL is a cross-industry effort to develop a fully open software stack for the connected car. Renesas considers AGL as an essential step to expand the base of software developers.

In-circuit-programming support for Renesas RL78 microcontrollers has been announced by SEGGER. Production and service teams, which need to handle RL78-based devices, can now use the fast flash programmers created by SEGGER. RL78 support has been added to the widely-used Flasher PRO and Flasher Portable PLUS. These Flasher units now also include support for RL78 devices without any additional licensing required.

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics Europe, has announced that it has developed a development kit for its R-Car that takes advantage of 'emotion engine', an artificial sensibility and intelligence technology pioneered by cocoro SB, a SoftBank Group company. The new development kit enables cars with the sensibility to read the driver's emotions and optimally respond to the driver’s needs based on their emotional...

Renesas Electronics Europe has announced that it has recognised emtrion GmbH as its first European Alliance Partner of the Year. The ceremony for this award was held on June, 14th at Renesas’ European Alliance Partner Summit in Munich, Germany. The award recognises the alliance partner for its end-customer design success, continuous engagement with Renesas, and proactive behaviour to provide new ideas for collaboration and joint promotion.

Renesas Electronics has announced that they have decided that they will, at the end of May 2018, consolidate the Kochi Factory (Konan, Kochi Prefecture) of its wholly owned subsidiary, Renesas Semiconductor Manufacturing. As announced in the press release “Renesas Electronics to Consolidate the Kochi Factory” issued on December 1, 2015, Renesas has planned on a consolidation policy under which the factory would be closed within t...

The successful development of a new low-power SRAM circuit technology has been announced by Renesas Electronics. The technology can be embedded in application specific standard products (ASSPs) for Internet of Things (IoT), home electronics, and healthcare applications. The new technology provides a function for switching dynamically, with a low power overhead, between active operation, in which the CPU core performs read and write operations of ...

Intended for use in a range of USB PD products employing direct current (DC) power including AC adapters, PCs, smartphones, other consumer and office equipment, and toys, Renesas Electronics has announced its new R9J02G012 USB Power Delivery (USB PD) controller. According to Renesas, the R9J02G012 is the industry’s first single package solution that supports both USB Power Delivery Rev. 3.0 (USB PD 3.0) and USB Type-C Authentication Re...

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, has announced that Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) has adopted the Renesas R-Car Starter Kit as one of its standard reference platforms for software development. AGL is a collaborative open source project that is bringing together automakers, suppliers and technology companies to build a Linux-based, open software platform for automotive applications that can serve as the de facto in...

Renesas Synergy secure flash programming solution for secure manufacturing and remote updating of IoT devices.

  The fuel efficiency demands are pushing carmakers to produce more electric, hybrid, and PHEVs (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles). That, among other things, will require a major design overhaul of vehicle’s electronic building blocks such as ECUs and MCUs.

Engineers can now get hand-son with the Renesas Synergy Platform in a series of one-day workshops, the company has announced. Workshop participants will spend a couple of hours understanding the platform, see a demonstration of how quickly they can programme at the API, as well as completing their own project in one of the focus topics. At the end of the workshop engineers will take away their own Renesas Synergy S7 Starter Kit and Synergy &...

A new Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS) and automated driving platform has been launched by Renesas Electronics: Renesas autonomy. As the first rollout under its Renesas autonomy platform, Renesas released the R-Car V3M high-performance image recognition System-on-Chip (SoC) optimised primarily for use in smart camera applications, as well as surround view systems or even lidars.

A new software packages has been announced for Renesas Electronics' R-Car automotive computing platform to improve security and safety capabilities for next-gen connected cars. The software packages implement embedded optimised virtualisation technology that enables embedded systems to have -in a single system- security features that protect the car from external threats, and functional safety features that assure continued safe operation ev...

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics Europe, has announced the winners of its MCU Car Rally competition for university students, which was held on 16th March at embedded world 2017 in Nuremberg, Germany. Thirty teams from all over Europe, comprising approximately 150 students supported by their 25 professors, participated in the challenge by each developing a functioning model rally car that included sensors and ...

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, has announced that it is extending its microcontroller (MCU) portfolio within the Renesas Synergy Platform to cover a wider range of capabilities, CPU performance, and memory sizes, so system developers can get exactly what they need to create innovative solutions that drive their businesses. This broadened spectrum of scalable and compatible MCUs provides developers with many opt...

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Renesas Electronics has announced that it has joined the LoRa Alliance, an open non-profit association that supports the standardisation and drives the widespread adoption of LoRaWAN. LoRaWAN is a wireless specification that achieves Low-Power Wide-Area (LPWA) wireless networks for the Internet of Things (IoT) as an open global standard. This membership will help Renesas accelerate its microcontroller (MCU) solution deployments using LoRaWAN tech...

Cadence Design Systems has announced that Renesas has used the Cadence Perspec System Verifier to verify its new micro-controller unit (MCU) design for internet of things (IoT) applications. The Perspec System Verifier enabled Renesas to improve the system-level verification process, which reduced the number of engineering hours spent on test scenario generation by up to 90% when compared with its previous approach. 

Renesas Electronics Europe has announced the availability of the Amazon Web Service (AWS) IoT Device SDK for Renesas Synergy Platform, which will be made available on the Synergy Partner Showcase of the Synergy Gallery site. The SDK enables system developers to quickly access the power and capabilities of AWS, allowing them to easily add new devices to their existing IoT infrastructure, or create a new design tailored to their specific requiremen...

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, unveiled the latest expansion of its Renesas Synergy Platform at embedded world 2017. Key developments to the Synergy Platform include the latest version of the Synergy Software Package (SSP) version 1.2.0 that assures levels of software quality in accordance to processes defined by the international standard ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207 by offering a complete Software Quality Assuranc...