Renesas Electronics has announced a packet header search reference design for 100Gb communications devices such as routers, switches and servers. The reference design is comprised of: the LLDRAM-III (RMHE41A364AGBG) power-efficient, LLDRAM; proprietary exact-match search IP and LLDRAM-III controller IP on an FPGA device; and development support tools.

Renesas Electronics has introduced a series of embedded security solutions employing general-purpose MCUs and MPUs as completely new security structures for embedded devices that will function as IoT endpoints in homes and buildings. Now, as the first product of this series, Renesas has released the RX231 Communications Security Evaluation Kit.

Renesas Electronics has announced the availability of a reference solution focused on high-performance, real-time motion control applications equipped with the RZ/T1 MPU. The RZ/T1 motion control solution kit simplifies embedded development for industrial servo drives and controllers, industrial robotic systems, factory equipment and other machine tools requiring high speed, responsiveness and excellent real-time performance.

Today’s embedded applications are requiring a staggering amount of functionality. Wireless connectivity, intuitive user interfaces, complex functional algorithms, plus an infrastructure suitable for managing these tasks simultaneously are all time consuming to develop, difficult to integrate, and almost impossible to thoroughly test. This means that the true software development costs of a product can no longer be extrapolated from the cost...

Renesas Electronics Europe has agreed to collaborate with MicroConsult on the provision of customer training courses for the Renesas Synergy Platform.

The range of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) from Renesas Electronics has been expanded with the launch of the RX24T Group. Using the RXv2 CPU core, the new MCUs deliver double the performance from the RX23T, 30% reduced development time, and features additional instructions designed to accelerate performance and energy efficiency in industrial equipment, office equipment and household appliances.

Renesas Electronic has announced six Intelligent Power Devices (IPDs) for automotive motor and heater control applications. Integrating protection and self-diagnostic functions with MOSFET switching elements, the IPDs are compact, lightweight, power efficient and not subject to the contact wear and tear that affects mechanical relays.

Renesas Electronics has expanded its 8th gen G8H series of IGBTs that minimise conversion losses in power conditioners for solar power generation systems and reduce inverter applications in UPS systems. Six new product versions have been released, rated at: 650V/40, 50 & 75A; and 1,250V/25, 40 and 75A.

Renesas Electronics Europe has announced the winners of its MCU Car Rally competition for university students, which was held on 25th February at embedded world 2016 in Nuremberg, Germany. Twenty-four teams from all over Europe, comprising some 120 students supported by their professors, participated in the challenge by each developing a functioning model rally car that included sensors and an RX MCU from Renesas.

Renesas Electronics Europe and TES Electronic Solutions (TES) have announced the availability of the TES Guiliani-LITE prepaid HMI production package for Renesas’ RZ/A Series of embedded MPUs. In addition to high computational performance of 1000DMIPS, the RZ/A Series from Renesas offer the optimal feature set for medium-range HMIs, such as those found in the white goods arena, in industrial and medical terminals as well as countless securi...

Renesas Electronics has announced the start of a beta programme based on its Renesas Synergy Platform that provides heightened security capabilities to OEMs who build devices connecting to the IoT. The Synergy Platform Device Lifecycle Management (DLM) solution consists of Synergy Security MCUs plus the associated Synergy Software and tools enabling OEMs to better protect their software IP from theft and cloning during manufacture, to inhibit cou...

Renesas Electronics Europe and emtrion have announced the availability of the new emCON-RZ/G1E System-On-Module (SOM) board. The new board is designed for the quick and easy evaluation and production of high-end industrial applications using RZ/G Series of microprocessors (MPUs) from Renesas.

Renesas Electronics has announced the expansion of its Renesas Synergy Platform designed to accelerate time-to-market, reduce total cost of ownership and remove many of the obstacles engineers face when designing devices for the IoT. Expansion includes the launch of the S124 Group of Synergy MCUs with ultra-low power operating characteristics and precise analogue signal acquisition/generation capabilities ideal for sensor applications.

Renesas Electronics has announced the R-Car D1 Series, the first SoC in the R-Car family specialised for 3D instrument cluster systems. As more automotive systems are expected to shift to 3D graphics instrument cluster systems in the near future, Renesas has introduced this series to provide a smooth migration path for automotive system manufacturers.

Renesas Electronics Europe has announced that a European-wide network of Independent Design Houses (IDH) is ready to support the Renesas Synergy Platform. So far, the network comprises 13 IDH covering many European regions in local languages.

Renesas has announced that the final of its MCU Car Rally competition for university students will take place at embedded world 2016, 23rd to 25th February in Nuremberg, Germany. Teams from universities and technical colleges all over Europe were invited to participate in the competition, which involves developing a functioning model racing car based on electronic components and software from Renesas.

Renesas Electronics has announced the development of 90nm one-transistor MONOS (Metal-Oxide-Nitride-Oxide-Silicon) flash memory technology that can be used in combination with a variety of processes, such as CMOS and bipolar CMOS DMOS (BiCDMOS), and provides high Programme/Erase (P/E) endurance and low rewrite energy consumption.

Renesas Electronics has announced the development of hardware fault detection and prediction technologies for functional safety in automotive computing systems. The company has also successfully developed a prototype of an automotive computing SoC fabricated in a 16nm FinFET process supporting the ISO 26262 ASIL B standard for automotive functional safety.

Designed for automotive computing SoCs used in autonomous vehicles of the future, Renesas has announced the development of a video processing circuit block. The circuit block handles processing of vehicle camera video with 70ms latency, processing video in real time on large volumes of data with 197mW power consumption and without imposing any additional load on the CPU and GPU, which are responsible for autonomous vehicle control.

The RX230 Group of 32-bit MCUs have been introduced by Renesas Electronics Europe. The MCUs achieve top-class power performances in standby at only 0.8μA and operate from a 1.8-5.5V supply, making them suitable for applications requiring high processing performance in environments with low current supply capacity, as well as the robustness needed in home appliance applications.