Renesas Electronics Europe and Hilscher GmbH, has announced their cooperation on the development of a new system-on-chip (SoC) for future high-end motion controls and automation control products. The SoC that will be jointly developed by Hilscher and Renesas is planned to be launched as a new member of Hilscher’s next-generation, high-end communication controller series to be named netX 4000.

Renesas Electronics has announced the availability of two single-channel Ethernet physical layer (PHY, part number µPD60610GA-GAM-AX and µPD60611GA-GAM-AX) devices for industrial communication systems. The two new PHY chips expand Renesas’ family of PHY devices designed for industrial Ethernet requirements, which includes two dual-channel PHY devices (the µPD60620GA-GAM-AX and the µPD60621GA-GAX-AX).

Renesas Electronics Europe and TMG Technologie und Engineering GmbH have announced the availability of the jointly-developed Remote-IO toolbox. The toolbox contains a set of hardware and software modules that together build a base for complete remote-IO products ready to be certified for PROFINET, and to pass Ethernet/IP plugfests and vendor declaration for IO-Link.

Renesas Electronics has announced the availability of the TPS-1 PROFINET IO (input/output) device chip and the associated TPS-1 starter kit based on the signed licensing agreement with KW-Software, a Phoenix Contact Group company and a leading provider of industrial solutions and technologies. As a result of the collaboration with KW-Software, Renesas is providing the TPS-1 device and first level support through its sales network, while KW-Softwa...

Renesas Electronics Europe has announced the availability of four new 32-bit All Flash microcontrollers. the uPD70F3515, uPD70F3514, uPD70F3512 and the uPD70F3510. They provide processing performance of up to 1024 Dhrystone MIPS (million instructions per second, Note 1) at a clock speed of 200 megahertz (MHz). This makes the V850E2M/MN4 the world’s highest-performance industrial embedded Flash microcontroller.

Renesas Electronics has announced the expansion of the RL78 Family with the introduction of the new RL78/G1A Group of microcontrollers (MCUs). The RL78/G1A 16-bit MCUs integrate enhanced analog technology with industry-leading power-efficient technology of the RL78 Family to deliver excellent processing performance. The RL78/G1A Group of MCUs are ideal for a number of applications including industrial automation sensors, white goods, home automa...

Imagination Technologies Group, Renesas Electronics Corporation and Renesas Mobile Corporation (“Renesas Mobile”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Renesas Electronics have announced that Imagination and Renesas Electronics signed a multiuse license agreement for IP from Imagination’s PowerVR Series6 ‘Rogue’ graphics family.

Renesas Electronics Corporation announced the recording of special income in the three months ended September 30, 2011. 1. Outline of the special income for reversal of provision for loss on disaster Due to the impact of the earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011, Renesas Group recorded a provision for loss on disaster as part of its special loss.

Renesas Electronics Europe and the University of Glamorgan have announced the official opening of the Renesas Embedded Systems Laboratory for electronics engineering students within the University’s Faculty of Advanced Technology. The two organisations have been working together for the past five years with Renesas making regular donations of development tools and microcontrollers. The ongoing support from Renesas and the productive relationshi...

Renesas Electronics and its subsidiary, Renesas Mobile Corporation, today announced a new member of the R-Car series of automotive systems-on-chip (SoCs), the R-Car H1, capable of delivering up to 11,650 Dhrystone MIPS (DMIPS) and ideal for the high-end car navigation market. The R-Car H1 SoC offers an innovative architecture where the application domain is powered by an ARM CortexA-9 quad-core configuration running at 1 gigahertz (GHz). The real...

Renesas Electronics and its subsidiary, Renesas Mobile Corporation today announced the availability of their new image recognition system-on-chip (SoC), the SH7766. This solution integrates on a single chip all the functions required for the implementation of camera-based surround view systems together with the display of crucial information such as lanes, signs and markings, pedestrians, vehicles, etc.

Renesas Electronics Europe has announced the availability of the RX210 and RX630 microcontrollers (MCUs), two compatible families designed to provide flexible and scalable solutions for the next generation of smart meters. Both RX210 and RX630 MCUs are based on Renesas’ powerful 32-bit RX CPU core.

Renesas Electronics announced the availability of the new automotive system-on-chip (SoC), the SH7769, for high-end automotive display systems (graphics cluster, multifunction graphics display) supporting advanced human machine interfaces (HMI).

Renesas Electronics announced the availability of its new highly-integrated 16-bit microcontroller, the 78K0R/LG3-M, which enables the design of cost-effective and highly integrated single-phase static electricity meters. Combining a high-performance 20 megahertz (MHz) 16-bit core with 128 kilobytes (KB) of Flash memory and 7 KB of RAM, the new MCU integrates all the major functions required in a static electricity meter, including a dedicated el...

Renesas Electronics Europe announced the availability of a complete ZigBee Pro module-based design kit which includes the Smart Energy1.1 profile. Based on Renesas’ M16C/6B single chip ZigBee silicon, the AND TR design kits are tuned to provide optimum RF performance in the most demanding situations and have been tested for interoperability at ZigBee Smart Energy interoperability events. Competitively priced, the design kits include “TestZED�...

Renesas Electronics Corporation has announced the availability of a new SiGe:C heterojunction bipolar transistor (SiGe:C HBT, Note 1), the NESG7030M04, for use as a low-noise amplifier transistor for wireless LAN systems, satellite radios, and similar applications. This device uses a process that adopts newly-developed silicon-germanium: carbon (SiGe:C) materials (Note 2) and achieves the industry-leading low-noise performance.

Renesas Electronics Europe, announced that it has received VDE (the German Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies) certification for its IEC60335-compliant self-test software for the RX600 and RL78 microcontroller families. The latest self-test CPU software routines developed for the RX600 and RL78 families are fully compliant with IEC60730-1 regulations and have now been certified by VDE. VDE is widely recognized for i...

Renesas Electronics, announced the availability of a new SiGe:C heterojunction bipolar transistor, the NESG7030M04, for use as a low-noise amplifier transistor for wireless LAN systems, satellite radios, and similar applications. This device uses a process that adopts newly-developed silicon-germanium: carbon materials and achieves industry-leading low-noise performance.

Renesas Electronics today announced the availability of the company’s 6 new 32-bit microcontrollers, the SH726A and SH726B. The new MCUs are designed to lower the system cost of products, such as car and home audio systems and industrial equipment, while reducing the mounting area. The SH726A and SH726B devices are new members of the SH7260 family of MCUs with large-capacity on-chip SRAM.

Renesas Electronics today announced the availability of 32 new RL78/F12 16-bit microcontrollers (MCUs). These contribute to reduced system power consumption and higher performance for automotive control systems, including keyless entry, power window control, mirror control, and other applications.