The e2studio development environment will be demonstrated at Renesas’ booth, hall 1 / 1-336, at the Embedded World show in February. With the release of the e2studio, developers of Renesas’ RL78, RX and V850 families of MCUs can now benefit from Eclipse based debugging capabilities as well as the established CDT functionality. Support for the SH-2/2A RISC MCUs is also in development and will be released shortly.

Over the last few years, significant momentum has built up...

The new MCU is a derivative of Renesas' P Series of MCUs and belongs to the 32-bit V850™ RISC MCU Family. It incorporates Renesas' V850E2 CPU core, which provides excellent real-time operation, and is equipped with a rich set of peripheral functions for motor control. Renesas' P Series of MCUs is widely adopted as motor control system solutions for automotive applications. With the combination of P Series' dual core lockstep and on-chip...

Renesas began supplying the new reference board to partner companies today and plans to submit business proposals to those companies offering content distribution services and manufacturers of consumer products.

With the adoption of worldwide digital TV broadcasting in recent years, Internet-based video distribution and web services are expected to grow in popularity. At the same time, the number of devices capable of connecting...

Renesas has proven experience in developing flash MONOS (metal oxide nitride oxide silicon) technology with high quality and reliability. Renesas was notably also the first to launch the 90nm automotive flash MCU products in 2007.

Renesas flash MONOS technology is scalable while providing both high reliability and high performance at the same time. Evaluation results available from 40nm flash test devices prove that excellent...

The Siemens Supplier Awards 2011 [presented by Barbara Kux, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG, Head of Supply Chain Management and Chief Sustainability Officer] are expressions of the joint efforts aimed at innovative solutions, which are advantageous to suppliers and Siemens alike - and thus also benefit Siemens’ customers.

With this accolade Siemens honors suppliers’ efforts to optimize processes in the shared supply chain in the categories ‘Best Overall’, ‘Breakthrough /...

Within a month of the earthquake in north-eastern Japan in March 2011, Renesas Electronics succeeded in reopening all factories except for the Naka facility, located nearest to the earthquake’s epicentre, which sustained significantly more damage. The company quickly diverted production to its other factories and outsourced part of the production to external foundries all while repairing the Naka factory and keeping customers informed of...

USB 3.0 achieves data transfer speeds that are up to 10 times faster than the previous version of the standard, enabling more rapid and efficient transfers of data to and from external storage devices. Renesas has led the industry by introducing the world’s first USB 3.0 host controller in May 2009, and the company’s lineup of USB 3.0 host controllers has been broadly adopted by customers worldwide with total shipments already exceeding...

Lithium-ion batteries are used in a wide range of portable equipment, from cell phones to digital still cameras, media players, personal navigation devices and tablet PCs. Lithium-ion batteries have a high energy density and can contribute to equipment miniaturization. At the same time, however, they can generate excessive heat and catch fire if they are overcharged. For this reason, JEITA (Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association) has formulated guidelines that...

The company is now providing a cross-referenced list to help customers identify the Renesas optocoupler that corresponds to the device they usually order.  

Customers wishing to obtain the list can register at:

 http://www.renesas.eu/opto-xref.

Thomas Krieg, Managing Director Marketing at Rutronik, presented the award to Renesas on behalf of all of its distribution partners. Krieg said the award was a token of the distributors’ appreciation of Renesas’ careful management of product supplies and its rapid recovery following the earthquake in Japan in March 2011.

Caption (from left to right):
Achim Mescher, Sales Director of Distribution Europe, Renesas Electronics Europe GmbH
Markus Krieg, Managing...