Renesas Electronics has announced a wireless solution that supports the Bluetooth Smart near field wireless communication standard. The RL78/G1D group of MCUs has been developed by combining the low-power RF transceiver technology for BLE, which the company presented at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) held in February 2015.

  Renesas Electronics has introduced the smallest R-Car-based development kit to date, the ADAS Starter Kit. This is based on Renesas’ high-end R-Car H2 SoC and developed to help simplify and speed up the development of ADAS applications.

Renesas Electronics has announced that Renesas and Audi have established a strategic relationship as part of the Audi Progressive SemiConductor Program to accelerate automotive innovation. This strategic relationship covers traditional automotive control areas such as powertrain, chassis, body and safety; driver infotainment and driver assistance systems; and newer application areas including automated drive, connected car and the electrical vehi...

Renesas has announced the development of the RX231 Group of 32-bit MCUs, which offers industrial and healthcare designers an optimal combination of high performance with DSP, FPU, and low power consumption. The RX231 Group suits applications that require high processing performance in environments with low current supply capacity, such as industrial sensors, healthcare, wearables and building automation devices such as thermostats.

Renesas Synergy, a complete embedded development platform designed to simplify the creation of innovative products in the embedded space, has been announced by Renesas Electronics. IAR Systems now announces that the company, as the only commercial tools vendor, will provide build and debugger tools as part of the new platform.

The Renesas Synergy Platform is an easy-to-use, qualified platform designed to accelerate time-to-market, reduce TCO and remove many of the obstacles engineers face as they develop products for the IoT and industrial markets. The Renesas Synergy Platform achieves this by using an innovative approach to new product design that lets embedded systems engineers start product development at the API level, giving them more time to design innovative and...

Renesas Electronics has announced the RL78/G1F Group of multi-function MCUs, adding 20 members to its low-power RL78 family. Featuring enhanced peripheral functions and compatibility across the RL78/G1x Series of MCUs, the devices simplify sensorless BLDC motor control and deliver precision operation at faster rotational speeds with high accuracy for energy-efficient home appliances and electric power tools.

Renesas Electronics Europe has announced the availability of its 'Stream it!' kit, a complete evaluation platform for H.264 encoding and streaming in real-time. The kit includes all the hardware, software components and demonstration programs manufacturers need to start development of cost-optimised video surveillance systems, video door phones, access control and intrusion detection systems.

Renesas has introduced the RX23T Group of MCUs, designed for building inverter control systems to enable precise control of inverter circuits, for applications such as DC motor control in energy-efficient electric home appliances, industrial machinery, and office equipment. MCU functions are optimised for inverter drive control, including an on-chip FPU that reduces code size and development time by 30%.

Renesas has announced a touch sensing starter kit, Y-RX113CAPT01, for the RX113 Group of 32-bit MCUs, which incorporate capacitive touch sensor IP that enables high sensitivity, high noise immunity, and excellent water resistance. The kit offers greater flexibility in developing HMI applications that require touch capability in rugged environments, such as home appliances and industrial machinery.

  The CC-RL C compiler, a development environment for the RL78 family of 16-bit MCUs widely used in the home appliances, industrial and automotive systems, has been introduced by Renesas Electronics.

Is the phrase "Fast time-to-market" on the side of an MCU starter-kit confidence-inspiring, or virtually meaningless now there is so much more to think about? By Steve Norman, Core Marketing Manager, Industrial and Communications Business Group, Renesas Electronics Europe.

Renesas Electronics Europe has announced the certification of the second generation of its OFDM powerline (PLC) modem for the FCC frequency band. This makes the company the first supplier worldwide to achieve certifications for all frequency bands as defined by the G3-PLC Alliance specifications, including ARIB (Japan Route B), Cenelec A and FCC.

Renesas Electronics Europe has revealed the winners of its MCU Car Rally competition for university students, which was held at embedded world 2015 in Nuremberg. Seventeen teams comprising 100 students from all over Europe participated in the event by developing a functioning model rally car based on sensors and other electronic components from Renesas.

Renesas has announced the RH850/D1x Series of 32-bit automotive MCUs specialised for use in instrument clusters that deliver easy-to-access information to support a safer and rich driving experience. The connected car generates a significant amount of information , which must be transmitted to the driver in an easy-to-understand and easy-to-read manner, shown as graphics.

Renesas has expanded its collaboration with IS2T in order to simplify software complexities for emerging IoT markets. With their latest collaboration, Renesas and new Alliance Partner member IS2T extend the support of the MicroEJ software platform the latest Renesas RZ/A group of MPUs. The RZ/A features an ARM Cortex A9 CPU that clocks at 400MHz, up to 10MB of on-chip SRAM, a TFT LCD interface with graphic accelerators and various communication p...

Renesas has announced the availability of its Detect it! solution kit. The Detect it! kit is designed for detector applications and provides ready to use demonstrators for the most typical detectors used in security and fire protection systems. Detect it! has four demonstrator hardware boards, a motion detector, smoke detector, carbon monoxide detector and a glass-break detector.

Renesas has awarded the status of Global Platinum Alliance Partner to SEGGER in recognition of the companies long-term strategic relationship. SEGGER provides proven RTOS and middleware, RTOS-aware debugging capabilities and fast production tools, all supporting a wide range of Renesas MCUs, MPUs and application-specific devices.

At embedded world 2015, Renesas Electronics Europe will announce the final of its MCU Car Rally competition for university students. Almost 100 students across 17 teams from universities and technical colleges all over Europe have spent the past year developing a functioning model racing car based on electronic components and software from Renesas, competing for prizes including racing experiences, tablets and cash vouchers.

Doubling CPU operating frequency from 120 to 240MHz, Renesas has extended its RX Family of 32-bit MCUs with the RX71M Group. Developed for use in industrial equipment and described by Renesas as the ‘flagship’ product of the series, the group is available with up to 4MB of on-chip flash memory.