Renesas has teamed up with its software alliance partner port to offer an innovative software support programme to European customers. Customers who are planning to use the 32-bit RX MCU microcontroller family in their designs can qualify for a free-of-charge commercial software package from port GmbH up to the value of 20,000 euros.

Renesas has made the following decisions at a meeting of the Board of Directors held today on the nomination of part of a candidate for the Member of the Board to be submitted for approval at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders held in June 2013 and the changes in its Representative Directors as well as the titles to be officially appointed at a meeting of the Board of Directors scheduled after the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholder...

Increasing efficiency, quality and flexibility while fulfilling safety standards are the characteristics of modern drive technology development. Suad Jusuf, a Senior Field Application Engineer in the Industrial & Communications Business Group with Renesas Electronics Europe, takes a closer look in this article from ES Design magazine.

Renesas Electronics Europe teamed up with the software alliance partner WITTENSTEIN High Integrity Systems, to offer an innovative software support programme for European customers. Customers who are going to use the 32bit RX MCU microcontroller family in their designs can qualify for a free-of-charge commercial software package by WITTENSTEIN High Integrity Systems up to the value of 20,000 euros.

Renesas has teamed up with its software alliance partner Micrium to offer an innovative software support programme to European customers. Customers who are planning to use the 32-bit RX microcontroller family in their designs can qualify for a free-of-charge commercial software package by Micrium up to the value of 20,000 euros. This innovation support programme adds maximum value to the RX MCU range, providing qualifying customers with free deve...

Renesas Electronics Europe and its Platinum Partner SEGGER Microcontroller have teamed up to offer an innovative software support program to European customers. Customers can qualify for a free-of-charge commercial software package by SEGGER Microcontroller up to the value of 20,000 euros by using the 32-bit RX MCU microcontroller family in their designs.

Renesas Electronics introduces the industry's first 32-bit micro-controller with true low power and USB connectivity. RX111 devices deliver key features optimized for emerging mobile healthcare, Smart Grid/Smart Home and Internet-of-Things applications.

Renesas Electronics has developed the RL78/G10 Group as low pin count versions of the RL78/G1x Series of microcontrollers that feature excellent low-power operation as well as superb processing performance with on-chip flash memory capacities from 1 to 4 KB in 10-pin SSOP and 16-pin SSOP packages. These MCUs are optimal for consumer products such as small appliances.

Renesas Electronics announce the first release in its RX100 Series of powerful 32-bit microcontrollers – the new RX111 Group. The RX111 is produced on an ultra low power zero wait state flash process supporting market leading 32-bit power consumption / performance levels as well as supporting fast wake-up, with a wide range of standard peripherals and multiple safety functions as well as an integrated USB 2.0 peripheral supporting host, device ...

RX Product Manager, Stevan Dobrasevic compares the serial communication standards of UART, LIN, SPI, and I2C discussing the pros and cons of each and providing application examples. Stevan also discusses how the Serial Communication Interface peripheral available on the RX microcontrollers can be configured for communication using any of these standards.

Renesas Electronics today announced the availability of a new member of the R-Car Series of automotive Systems-on-Chip (SoCs). Capable of delivering more than 25,000 DMIPS, the R-Car H2 provides high performance and state-of-the-art 3D graphics capabilities for high-end multimedia and navigation automotive systems. The R-Car H2 is powered by the ARM CortexA-15 quad-core configuration running an additional ARM Cortex A-7 quad-core—the industry's...

Renesas Electronics Europe today announced that it has launched an expanded drive to build sales in Russia and other CIS countries. Against this backdrop, it has appointed a new distributor in Russia, PT Electronics, with immediate effect.

Renesas Electronics Europe today announced a new innovative support programme for European customers that select its Renesas’ RX microcontroller family. These customers are invited to submit their designs to Renesas to qualify free-of-charge commercial software up to the value of 20,000 euros.

Renesas Electronics has developed a new split gate (SG) flash memory circuit technology for on-chip flash memory microcontrollers (MCUs) that adopts the industry's leading-edge 40 nanometer (nm) process technology achieve high reliability, low power consumption and the industry’s fastest random access operation speeds.

A big focus at Embedded World 2013 was for the RX platform of 32-bit microcontrollers. Renesas commissioned Anouk Wipprecht to develop an interactive TechnoFashion dress designed using RX GR-Sakura (Arduino compatible) boards.

Renesas Electronics has developed and will start supply of a multi-format video codec hardware IP product that supports low-delay processing for automotive information terminals that support High Definition Television (HDTV), mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, and industrial equipment.

Renesas today announced the availability of its new SuperSpeed Universal Serial Bus (USB 3.0) to Serial ATA Revision 3 bridge SoC (part number µPD720231) that enables the reduction of the total BOM significantly. The µPD720231 enables effective multi-gigabit per second data transfer between a USB 3.0 host system and a SATA device used in widely adopted external USB hard drives and solid state drives.

Renesas Electronics has today disclosed details of its roadmap for its next-generation microcontrollers. Renesas is expanding the RX family to include the lowest power, lowest cost RX 32-bit MCU for the embedded market, integrating as little as 8KB of flash memory. The first samples of the new RX100 product series, the industry’s lowest cost, ultra-low power 32-bit RX devices offering flash memory integration from 8KB to 128KB, are now availabl...

Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced the following changes to its Representative Directors, Corporate Officers and organizational structure. These changes were approved at a meeting of the Board of Directors on February 22, 2013.

Renesas Electronics Europe is pleased to reveal that its market-leading, software configurable orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based powerline communication (PLC) solution has been awarded the “Smart Metering Technology of the Year Award 2013.”