Renesas Technology has announced the R2A60281LG, an ultra-compact 2G/3G dual-mode radio frequency (RF) transceiver IC that supports both 2G and 3G modes used in cellular communications. The device integrates in a single chip most of the high-frequency signal processing functions required by mobile phone handsets. Sample shipments will begin in March 2008 in Japan.

Renesas Technology Corp, Sharp Corporation and Powerchip Semiconductor Corp today announced an agreement to establish a joint venture specializing in drivers and controllers for small- and mid-size LCDs. Consolidating the business operations of Renesas Technology and Sharp in this field, the new company will engage in the design, development, sales, and marketing of LCD drivers and controllers. Business operations related to these products will b...

Renesas Technology developed the award-winning MONOS (metal-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon) high-speed embedded Flash Technology to achieve 10ns read access time in its latest 90nm process generation.

Renesas Technology Europe has announced the development of the SH7786 group of dual-core processors built around twin SH-4A CPU cores. The SH7786 group is intended for high-performance multimedia systems, especially Car Information Systems (CIS) such as car navigation systems. It incorporates dual Renesas Technology SH-4A high-performance CPU cores to achieve superior processing power of up to 1920 million instructions per second (MIPS) (when o...

Renesas Technology Europe has announced the immediate availability of the SH7721 microprocessor for battery-operated devices that use TFT displays and feature-rich Linux user interfaces. The SH7721 SH-3-based microprocessor has 170 DMIPS performance, 32Kbyte unified cache and a five-stage pipeline. It integrates a TFT-controller with up to 1024x1024 resolution, depending on colour depth, and with an associated dedicated 2.4Kbyte line-buffer RAM ...

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Renesas Technology Corp. have announce that they have reached an agreement for Mitsubishi Electric to acquire buildings and its manufacturing facilities of Renesas’ Kumamoto factory.

Renesas Technology Europe announced today that their Power Line Communications solution, aimed at automatic meter reading (AMR), automatic meter management (AMM) and building automation applications, has passed the milestone of over 100,000 nodes in the field.

Renesas Technology’s Draco EDGE solution is to support Icera’s Espresso Cellular WWAN mini card platform, the company announced today. The Icera Espresso is an optimised Cellular WWAN mini-card reference platform that supports the next generation of broadband cellular integration to laptop PCs. The platform fully supports 3GPP release 5 multimode HSDPA that delivers peak data-rates of 3.6Mbps and is fully scalable to 7.2Mbps and HSUPA – w...

Renesas Technology Europe and its alliance partner Thesycon have announced the immediate availability of a complete USB stack support for the H8SX/1664-based, RSK1664 Renesas Starter Kit (RSK). The H8SX/1664 features a USB function and a 50 DMIPS H8SX CISC CPU core. From the PC side, Thesycon provides a generic USB device driver for Windows, called USBIO. This allows Windows application developers to control any kind of USB device. No DDK develop...

Renesas Technology Europe has launched its latest member of the SuperH line-up of products. The SH7285 has been designed for the high-end drives, AC servos and general-purpose inverter markets. It offers up to 768k of fast MONOS (Metal Oxide Nitride Oxide Silicon) embedded Flash enabling the CPU clock to run at 100MHz. It has all the features and characteristics necessary to control two high-end industrial drives.

Renesas Technology Europe has announced the availability of the SH7763 highly integrated microprocessor for sophisticated consumer applications such as high-end audio/video equipment, media servers and set-top-boxes. It is also suits telecom-based designs such as residential gateways, routers and IP-feature phones. In addition, the microprocessor is ideal for migrating designs from industrial PCs (IPC) to deeply embedded hardware. This would achi...

Renesas Technology Europe has introduced a total of eight products in four groups in the SH7670 group of the SuperH Family. These microprocessors each incorporate an Ethernet controller and USB 2.0 host on a single chip and are intended for applications such as digital audio visual, office automation, and factory automation systems requiring network connection functionality.

Renesas Technology Europe has announced enhancements to its H8SX family of 32-bit CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) microcontrollers. With the addition of the H8SX/1638 and H8SX/1648 groups, there are a total of eight models featuring a 50MHz maximum operating frequency, 50MIPS performance, and comprehensive on-chip peripheral functions. The enhanced family of microcontrollers offers a wide range of products ideal for varied systems in PC...

Renesas Technology Europe has introduced what it says is the first 16-bit H8 microcontroller-based evaluation platform that demonstrates an LCD direct drive capability for supporting QVGA size TFT and STN LCD panels. Because it can directly operate LCD panels, this advanced board eliminates the need for a separate LCD controller, decreasing overall system cost and shortening time to market.

Renesas Technology Europe has today announced the development of the RS-4 Series of 16-bit secure MCUs*1 for smart card applications in fields requiring a high level of security, such as credit or debit cards issued by banks or finance companies and ID cards. The RS-4 Series can deliver five times the processing performance of previous Renesas products of this type. The first products in the series are scheduled for release in the second quarter ...

MPC Data Limited, a leading Renesas Platinum Global Alliance Partner, has announced the immediate availability of a Windows CE 5.0 and a Linux 2.6 board support package for Renesas’ popular SH7780 32-bit SuperH® microprocessor. Both BSPs are targeted at the SDK7780 development platform, providing a choice of operating systems for engineers to design new products based on SH7780, shortening development time and getting products to market faste...

Renesas Technology Europe has added 32Kbyte Flash versions to its line-up of low pin count, SH/Tiny Flash microcontrollers. Adding the lower memory versions puts increased pressure on small DSPs with small memory integration. Renesas’ solution being a more flexible, cost effective solution than many advantages over DSPs.

Renesas Technology Europe today announced that it has completed the design of an innovative new CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) CPU architecture that will deliver what the company says is unmatched capabilities in code efficiency, processing performance, and power consumption for a future generation of Renesas’ CISC microcontrollers (MCUs). Products based on the new architecture will be branded as the ‘RX’ family.

Renesas, in partnership with some of its customers, is making a series of presentations at Cartes 2007 (13-15th November, Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibtion Centre, France) that will describe successful applications of secure, contactless smart cards. The company will also participate in the World Summit and will announce a new product family that has been developed for contactless and dualway applications.

Renesas Technology Europe has released the H8/38099F series MCU featuring a high performance 16-bit H8/300H CPU core. Offering extremely low power consumption combined with the flexibility of on-chip flash memory, these features make the H8/38099F ideal for many battery and line-powered applications.