The launch of Renesas Electronics India Pvt. Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Renesas Electronics Singapore Pte. Ltd., has been announced by the Renesas Electronics Corporation. Located in Bangalore, India, guests from the Embassy of Japan in India, company representatives from Japan and Singapore, as well as customers and industry partners attended the opening ceremony held in Bangalore, India on April 16, 2014.

Designed to drive development of HMI applications, the RZ Express program has been announced by Renesas Electronics America. The program is an optimized package of high-performance MPUs, easy-to-use RTOS, and comprehensive middleware solutions suited for high-resolution displays used in the design of HMI applications.

Renesas has invited its Platinum Alliance Partner, IAR Systems, to join the RX Maximization program in order to enhance the software program for European customers.

Based on the RXv2 CPU core announced in November 2013, the RX64M microcontrollers have been announced by Renesas. The company's first product in the flagship RX 32-bit MCUs to be fabricated in a 40nm process, the MCUs offer system designers a path to quickly and efficiently develop high-performance, low-power industrial equipment that supports a wide range of communications functions.

Designed to drive any 3-phase permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM), also called Brushless AC motors, Renesas has released two motor control reference platforms. They enable engineers to reduce or even eliminate the time they would normally take to calculate motor parameters and evaluate the best tuning algorithm coefficients.

At embedded World 2014, on stand 350 in Hall 1, Renesas will launch Europe’s first MCU Car Rally competition for students.

With a demonstration available at this year's embedded World, Renesas have anounced that WHIS has exteneded its SAFERTOS Real Time Operating System to support the 32-bit RX631 and RX63N Renesas MCUs.

Michael Hannawald has been appointed to the position of General Manager of the Industrial & Communications Business Group (ICBG) at Renesas. Previously Senior Director of the ICBG, Hannawald moves into the position with immediate effect, taking over from the retiring Holger Zielke.

The KNX stack from Tapko Technologies has now been certified by Renesas to operate with its entire line-up of RL78 microcontrollers. Mainly used at field level, the KNX stack is a communications protocol for home and building automation in various segments like lighting, heating and ventilation, security and domotic applications. The KNX has the ability to ensure full interoperability between different manufacturers by certifying the product pri...

Renesas Electronics Europe and Langer EMV have jointly revealed that the Renesas RX100 microcontroller family is highly robust against environmental noise. Since the MCU no longer needs to be protected by a specific transient voltage surge suppressor or an expensive multilayer ceramic capacitor, the exceptional electromagnetic compatibility performance of the RX110 MCUs helps reduce development and bill of material costs.

Renesas and Technologie Management Gruppe have announced a collaboration to provide comprehensive software support for Renesas' multi-protocol industrial Ethernet solutions. Implementing the Molex PROFINET and EtherNet/IP stacks on the Renesas Industrial Network R-IN devices, TMG offers easy access to these technologies with an accelerated time-to-market.

Renesas and IAR Systems have collaborated to offer an IEC 61508 functional safety compliant development tool for Renesas’ 32-bit RX microcontroller platform. IAR Embedded Workbench for RX incorporates high-performance compiler and debugger tools in an easy-to-use integrated development environment.

Renesas announce development of a new functional safety software package for its 32-bit RX631 and RX63N microcontrollers. The new solution provides diagnostic software for the industry-leading RX CPU core, and its internal memory. Significantly reducing development time, it also includes a detailed safety manual for designs that need to conform to stringent safety directives for industrial equipment, such as safety controllers, PLCs, industrial m...

Thanks to close cooperation with TMG Technologie und Engineering and Maxim Integrated, Renesas has announced a new reference design for small scale IO-Link smart industrial sensors. The hardware platform of the new IO-Link solution comprises Renesas' RL78 16-bit ultra-low power microcontroller, and an IO-Link transceiver and a miniature sensor from Maxim. The software and applications are completed with TMG TE's IO-Link v1.1 device stack operatin...

Renesas and KW-Software have jointly announced the release of new firmware for the Renesas TPS-1 (a.k.a. Tiger) PROFINET chip. Available in December, the new firmware version 1.2 supports multiple new features, including support for shared and highly modular devices, plug and play, extended logbook, FX/TX media converter and much more.

Renesas have today revealed the development of a new, high-performance 32-bit RX CPU core for embedded devices in the consumer, industrial, and office equipment fields. The new RXv2 core features increased performance from 3.2 to 4.0 Coremark/MHz or 2.0 DMIPS/MHz, with a maximum frequency of 300MHz in 40nm. It will also feature enhanced DSP and FPU capabilities.

Renesas has today introduced the new Renesas Starter Kit for the RZ/A1 family of embedded processors. Ideal for designing and creating Human Machine Interface applications, the RSK features everything needed for the development process. Specifically designed to reduce time to market the RSK assists Renesas customers in creating rich HMI systems in the shortest time possible.

Renesas has today announced that it has collaborated with Vector Informatik to offer comprehensive software support for its multi-protocol industrial Ethernet solutions. Enabling easy access to CANopen technology and a fast market entry, Vector Informatik has implemented its CANopen stack on the Renesas Industrial Network (R-IN) devices.

Renesas has today announced a collaboration with its alliance partner port in order to provide customers with comprehensive software support for Renesas multi-protocol industrial Ethernet solutions. Offering easy access to these technologies and a faster time-to-market, port implements PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT and CANopen stacks on the Renesas Industrial Network devices.

Since it was announced back in September 2011, interest has been growing for the Arduino platform. Renesas has now entered this arena with one of the fastest Arduino compatible boards – The GR-Sakura – based on an RX63N 32-bit microcontroller operating at 100MHz. Ian Hall, Principal Engineer with the MCU&Tools Group, Industrial & Communications Business Group, at Renesas, explores more in this ES Design magazine article.