MPUs offer high computational performance of 1000DMIPS

25th February 2016

Renesas

Jordan Mulcare

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Renesas Electronics Europe and TES Electronic Solutions (TES) have announced the availability of the TES Guiliani-LITE prepaid HMI production package for Renesas’ RZ/A Series of embedded MPUs. In addition to high computational performance of 1000DMIPS, the RZ/A Series from Renesas offer the optimal feature set for medium-range HMIs, such as those found in the white goods arena, in industrial and medical terminals as well as countless security applications.

In these applications, RZ/A MPUs optimise HMI performance and system cost with differentiated features like one of the world’s biggest embedded SRAMs of 10MB, a 5x AXI bus, an integrated OpenVG1.1 2D graphics engine and a dedicated LCD controller that drives up to two WXGA screens concurrently.

The RZ/A series of MPUs provides MPU level performance with the same easy design environment as MCUs. The typical design process starts with the selection of a specific MPU, the OS, the integrated development environment (IDE) and a GUI framework, which together form a complete HMI system solution. While the evaluation and development software packages of the required software components and tools usually come free of charge to developers, significant costs can arise in production.

Renesas Electronics now simplifies HMI by offering a complete, prepaid HMI system solution for RZ/A series devices. This offer specifically applies to the TES Guiliani-LITE production package for RZ/A MPUs, FreeRTOS V8.2.3 and e2studio V4.2.0 with compiler gcc GNUARM-none V15.0.

The prepaid Guiliani-LITE HMI production package is available for free commercial use in production. The 'lite' version can easily be upgraded to the 'full' version of the Guiliani Software package.

TES Guiliani is a C++ HMI framework designed to meet today’s user expectations for smartphone-like HMIs on highly cost-driven embedded systems. Being OS- and CPU-agnostic and without requiring an expensive hardware GPU, it covers a wide range of cost efficient MCUs and MPUs and is a suitable fit with Renesas’ RX MCUs, RZ/A embedded MPUs and RZ/G high-end industrial MPUs. Guiliani is delivered with a customisable and extendable set of modern widgets and features like wheels, gauges, animations, transition effects, multi-language support and skinning.

By default, applying modern graphics processing features - like sub-pixel accurate rendering, anti-aliasing, scaling, filtering and blending in combination with smart redraw and caching mechanisms - provides an eye-catching and high-performance visual experience. Guiliani’s PC drag and drop editor and simulator support rapid HMI design and prototyping, resulting in fast development cycles.

Mohammed Dogar, Senior Manager MCU/MPU Solution Marketing, Industrial & Communications Business Unit, Renesas Electronics Europe, mentions that: “TES’ Guiliani GUI framework helps to implement a quasi 3D user experience on a 2D HMI and brings a smartphone feeling to countless industrial applications.”

Thomas Hase, Senior Business Development Manager, TES, said: “By providing a complete, ready-to-run HMI system solution - consisting of the RZ/A Series devices, FreeRTOS, e2studio IDE and our Guiliani-LITE HMI framework - Renesas’ offer generates significant value on the HMI vendor side, as no other license fees or royalties need to be paid by the licensee.”