To spur embedded design creativity and competition, Renesas Electronics has launched the Renesas RX Design Contest, featuring the new RX family of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) and a robust software support environment, provided by Renesas Electronics and its Alliance Partner community. This includes CMX Systems, IAR Systems, Micrium, Micron Technology, SEGGER, Rowebots and TotalPhase. The Renesas RX Design Contest provides an open, creative env...

The RX CPU core was designed to provide both superb MCU performance and powerful signal-processing capabilities, bolstered by the industry’s fastest embedded Flash memory – all while achieving very low power consumption.

Langer EMV and Renesas Electronics announced today that the RX600 microcontroller (MCU) family is the most robust MCU Langer EMV has ever tested against environmental noise. Langer EMV, an independent testing company, confirmed the outstanding electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) performance of Renesas Electronics’ RX62T MCU.

Renesas Electronics, formed in April this year from NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology, hosted an Industrial Open Day conference in Barcelona on the 14th-16th October 2010. This unique event, organised in cooperation with NEC LCD Technologies, brought together over one hundred and twenty five market-leading companies and allowed them to experience the latest technology developments from Renesas Electronics, thus providing a platform for conti...

Renesas announced the availability of two new 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), the SH7268 and SH7269. They deliver increased functionality and enable a smaller-size solution for digital car audio, consumer, and industrial applications that drive a colour TFT-LCD. These new MCUs share the following features: (1) large-capacity 2.5 megabyte (MB) on-chip SRAM that is almost double the size of the predecessor SH7266 MCU, allowing display of WVGA resol...

The first public demonstration of it in action will be at the Renesas DevCon on the 11th October, where Renesas will present a FreeRTOS training course. This follows three new ports being created for Renesas' new RX62N microcontrollers. The RX62N also launch at the Renesas DevCon.

Renesas today announced new objectives to strengthen the company’s compound semiconductor business, which includes opto devices formed by compound semiconductor such as gallium arsenite (GaAs), and microwave devices. Renesas Electronics plans to: (1) Acquire and retain the global top market shares (Note 1) with photocouplers, RF (radio frequency) switch ICs and other focused products. (2) Launch new gallium nitride (GaN)-based semiconductor pr...

Renesas today announced the availability of its new control IC (part number μPD168891) for automotive light emitting diode (LED) headlights. The main features of the μPD168891 IC are (1) an integrated current-control function for constant-current drive of LEDs as well as a pre-driver function for driving external metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs); (2) integrated protection functions essential for automotive a...

Renesas Electronics, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the development of a new 32-bit V850™ CPU core, the V850E2H, that enables both real-time control and signal processing performance on a par with digital signal processors (DSPs). It is designed to meet demand for better processing performance in embedded systems such as factory automation (FA) equipment and automotive control units for engine control.

Renesas today announced the availability of two new 32-bit All Flash microcontrollers (MCUs), with processing performance of 1024 Dhrystone MIPS (million instructions per second, Note 1) at a clock speed of 200 megahertz (MHz), the world’s highest among the existing 32-bit dual-core MCUs with embedded flash memory. The new MCUs have two built-in CPU core, 64 kilobytes (KB) of random access memory (RAM) available for each core, 2 megabytes (MB)...

Renesas today introduced its new measures to strengthen the company’s system-on-chip (SoC) business for social infrastructure, especially the network and the industrial infrastructures, that support the cloud-computing era.

Renesas today announced the availability of its 1.1 gigabit memory devices for use in networking equipment including switches and routers for the next-generation Ethernet standard (100GbE) and beyond. The new network memory devices provide low power consumption, large capacity and high speed in one chip. Compared to Renesas Electronics’ existing 288 megabit (Mbit) low-latency DRAM devices, the new devices feature 4 times more memory capacity, a...

Renesas Electronics Corporation today introduced its new measures to strengthen the company's power device business.

Renesas Electronics today announced the release of 56 new 8-bit microcontrollers within the R8C/Lx Series. The new R8C/LAxA product groups offer ultra-low power consumption ranked among the best in the industry along with the company’s low-power K0 (8-bit) and K0R (16-bit) MCUs. TheR8C/Lx MCUs comprise a total of four groups ranging from 32 to 80 pins and up to 64 kilobytes (KB) of programmable flash memory. Sample shipments of the first produc...

Renesas Electronics, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the development of the RJK0222DNS and RJK0223DNS, two power semiconductor devices with ultra-compact packages for use in DC/DC converters (Note 1) that provide power to the MCU/CPU, memory, and other circuit blocks of products such as servers and notebook PCs.

Renesas today announced the M306S0F8DGP, the newest product in its M16C/6S series of microcontrollers (MCUs). The new MCU includes integrated modems to enable low data rate communication using existing power lines. It is a competitively-priced device with 64 kilobytes (KB) flash memory and a robust powerline communication modem. It is designed to cope with significant noise, distortion and other powerline phenomena and is suitable for street lig...

Renesas today introduced its new measures to expand the company’s microcontroller (MCU) business faster than the market growth rate. Since Renesas Electronics Corporation was formed on April 1, 2010 through a merger between NEC Electronics Corporation and Renesas Technology Corp., the company has studied ways to draw out maximum synergies for its MCU business, both in the business direction and in its product portfolio. Now, Renesas Electronics...

Renesas Electronics, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced that its latest Universal Serial Bus 3.0 (USB 3.0) xHCI (eXtensible Host Controller Interface) host controller (part number µPD720200A) and USB 3.0 intellectual property (IP) core (IP: NBU3DEVG1) have passed USB 3.0 compliance and certification testing by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF). The “Certified SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0)” certification from...

Renesas today introduced business strategies on its system-on-chip (SoC) business for mobile and multimedia applications, areas that are expected to extend across various fields and are suitable for the company to best bring out its strengths. Renesas Electronics’ 2nd SoC Business Unit engages in SoC businesses for mobile applications including mobile devices, smartphones and netbooks, automotive information systems including car navigation sy...

Renesas and SoftAtHome today announced their collaboration to offer a complete low cost set-top box (STB) reference solution that accelerates the time-to-market of hybrid IPTV / terrestrial, satellite and over-the-top (OTT) services. The jointly-developed solution combines Renesas Electronics’ EMMA™3SL/P system-on-chip (SoC) and the SoftAtHome Operating Platform. It will be demonstrated on Renesas Electronics booth in Hall 1, Stand F56 at IB...