Renesas has today introduced a large number of new low power, low voltage microcontrollers. Renesas is expanding the low power, low voltage RX200 series to include versions offering from 64 KB to 1 MB of on-chip flash memory, and package sizes from 48-pin LQFP to 145-pin LGA. Combined with active mode power consumption of 7.2 mA at 50 MHz operation and a standby mode of 0.4 µA, this provides an industry leading 32-bit low power lineup.

Renesas Electronics has today revealed an expansion of its 32-bit RX microcontroller platform. It is introducing 120 new models, expanding the successful RX631 and RX63N product groups within the RX600 series of 32-bit MCUs. These new RX63N/RX631 groups, for use in network equipment, are offering up to 256 kB embedded RAM, doubling the today’s available RAM size of 128 kB. Due to the RX platform concept, these new products are pin-to-pin compat...

The RL78G14 RDK kit features an integrated Wi-Fi utilities to provide a simple yet powerful mean to configure the WI-FI settings of this demonstration kit, define point to point Wi-Fi connections, run in a web server mode and connected to external clouds. Three presenters from Renesas Electronics Americas and from Gainspan Corp. are taking turn to introduce the feature of this new kit and all live sensor data feed can be transmitted over Wi-Fi.

Renesas Electronics today announced two new photocouplers PS9332L and PS9332L2, with an integrated insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) [Note 1] protection function, for applications such as industrial machinery and solar power systems.

Renesas Electronics Corporation and J-Devices Corporation today announced that they signed a Memorandum of Understanding today regarding the transfer of the semiconductor back-end production business of three facilities operated by Renesas' wholly owned manufacturing subsidiaries (the Hakodate Factory of Renesas Northern Japan Semiconductor, Inc. (Renesas Northern Japan), the Fukui Factory of Renesas Kansai Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (SKS), and the ...

Renesas Electronics have today announced three new low on-state resistance MOSFET products, including the UPA2766T1A, optimized for use as ORing FETs in power supply units for network servers and storage systems. Featuring the industry’s lowest on-state resistance of 0.72 mOhm (typical value) for 30 V – about 50 percent lower resistance compared to Renesas’ earlier products – and a high-efficiency, small surface mount package (8-pin HVSON...

Renesas Electronics today announced that its latest Universal Serial Bus 3.0 hub controller (part number uPD720210) has passed USB 3.0 compliance and certification testing by the USB Implementers Forum. It is one of the world’s first USB 3.0 hub controllers to achieve this recognition, following the world’s first USB 3.0 host controller certification obtained by Renesas in 2009.

Renesas Electronics has been implementing a range of measures to strengthen its earnings base and financial foundation, as outlined in press releases issued on July 3, 2012 and September 28, 2012, respectively titled “The Direction of Various Measures to Establish Robust and Profitable Structure”, and “The Progress of Various Measures to Establish Robust and Profitable Structure”.

Renesas and Tapko Technologies today announced the availability of a new KNX software stack designed for the RL78 microcontroller family. Reliable and flexible communications within residential and administrative buildings allow a high level of energy savings. This is why the KNX protocol is widely used to control lights, heating systems, and ventilation equipment and to manage sensors and surveillance systems.

Renesas has developed the RAA20770X Series of mini-POL converters for ASICs and other large-scale logic circuits in a wide variety of application fields, including personal computers, servers, industrial, office automation and networking equipment. The RAA20770X Series devices achieve the industry's highest level of miniaturization and power density. Renesas is now releasing six products with different current supply ratings and functionality.

Renesas has revealed the introduction of the new R-IN32M3 series of industrial Ethernet communication chips with support for multiple communication protocols in response to the rapid adoption of industrial Ethernet communication technology. Samples of the first products in R-IN32M3 series, the R-IN32M3-CL and R-IN32M3-EC, will be available in January 2013. Mass production of the R-IN32M3 series is scheduled to begin in June 2013 and is expected t...

Renesas today announced the expansion of the lineup of the RX63T group of microcontrollers. The new RX63T MCUs have higher pin counts and larger memory versions. They also expand the functions that they feature, such as USB 2.0, a 10-bit D/A converter, and faster ADC with a minimum conversion time of 0.5 microseconds, and increase the number of channels of timers and serial I/Fs.

Renesas Electronics today announced the release of the RL78/G1C Group of microcontrollers (MCUs), which are the industry's first 16-bit MCUs that conform to the USB Battery Charging Specification, Revision 1.2 and provide USB host/function interfaces.

Renesas have announced the expansion of the lineup of the RX63T group of microcontrollers. The new RX63T MCUs have higher pin counts and larger memory versions. They also expand the functions that they feature, such as USB 2.0, a 10-bit D/A converter, and faster ADC with a minimum conversion time of 0.5 microseconds (µs), and increase the number of channels of timers and serial I/Fs.

Renesas has today revealed the introduction of the RL78/L13 Group of low-power microcontrollers with on-chip LCD controller offering up-to 376 segment drive capability in an 80-pin package. These new MCUs are optimal for consumer, health and industrial equipment that are equipped with an LCD panel.

NLT Technologies together with its sales and marketing channels in the Americas and Europe, Renesas Electronics America, Inc. and Renesas Electronics Europe GmbH, announced today that they have started to accept orders for four new 21.3-inch modules with UXGA and QXGA resolution. The products are expected to be available from the end of 2012. Color and monochrome versions are available for each resolution model. These modules are ideal for medica...

Renesas have announced today that it has received PRIME Alliance certification for its software-configurable OFDM powerline communication platform. The certification comes less than ten months from development start and marks a significant milestone both towards extending Renesas’ solution capability as a leading supplier to the energy industry, and towards the adoption of PRIME as a global communications standard for smart grid.

Renesas Electronic today announced the availability of a solution kit that will revolutionize the application of low-power display technology across a broad array of products. Combining an RL78 low-power MCU, robust software drivers and a low-power, E Ink segmented display, the solution kit delivers a comprehensive, easy to use low-power reference design.

Renesas have today unveiled the release of version 1.1 of its Eclipse-based integrated development environment, e2studio, designed to provide a flexible development platform for its market-leading RX and RL78 microcontrollers.

Renesas Electronics today disclosed details of its roadmap for next-generation microcontrollers and microprocessors. Among the new developments, Renesas announced plans to use the company’s 40 nanometer MONOS embedded flash technology with its RX family of high-performance, general-purpose 32-bit MCUs.