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.

Renesas Technology Europe announced today an expansion to its successful SH708x-line-up with a version of the SH7083F Flash microcontroller in a compact 10x10mm and 1.4mm thickness BGA package. This device delivers 104 Dhrystone MIPS out of its 256Kbyte/512KByte embedded MONOS Flash memory and yet takes up only 140mm3. Such a level of CPU performance has so far not been available to applications with extreme space constraints such as sensors, cam...

Renesas Technology Europe has announced two new microprocessors in the SH-Mobile series for application processing targeting digital TV capable mobile phones. The SH-MobileL3V2 and SH-MobileUL incorporate a high-performance, low-power multi-CODEC video processing IP from Renesas. Both devices support MPEG-4, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) encoding & decoding and VC-1 decoding, achieving 30 fps (frame per second) performance at VGA definition.

Renesas Technology Europe has announced two new microprocessors in the SH-Mobile series for application processing targeting digital TV capable mobile phones. The SH-MobileL3V2 and SH-MobileUL incorporate a high-performance, low-power multi-CODEC video processing IP from Renesas. Both devices support MPEG-4, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) encoding & decoding and VC-1 decoding, achieving 30 fps (frame per second) performance at VGA definition.

Renesas Technology Europe has announced the immediate availability of the SH7780 microprocessor that delivers Pentium-class floating point performance into consumer and industrial markets. The device is ideal for applications requiring high-end graphics and so features a floating point unit (FPU) tailored for that purpose. Furthermore it consumes only 2.5W, is available in a -40 to 85 degree C version, integrates PCI, has a long life time, and ...

Renesas Technology and Quantum Research Group have announced that the two companies are collaborating to develop innovative capacitive touch sensing solutions. This agreement gives customers the benefits of QRG’s expertise and innovative QProx technology on Renesas’ MCU families, backed by their high quality, production capacity and supply chain reliability.

Renesas and its alliance partner Embedded Office have announced the immediate availability of a µC/OS-II Board Support Package (BSP) for the M3A-HS19G59 board. The board is based on the SH7619 device that features Ethernet MAC&PHY and a 160 DMIPS SH2 RISC CPU core, as well as many other peripherals. The device is comparable in cost to an Ethernet NIC with PHY and so offers the CPU and peripherals ‘for free’, in comparison.

Renesas Technology Europe’s H8/36079LF microcontrollers offer a completely integrated solution for a wide range of applications, with everything on chip that users need, including oscillators, analogue inputs and timers. The micros are ideal for low cost motor control applications, including white goods such as washing machines and dishwashers, also industrial applications, and for compressors and fans.