The Japanese company Renesas Electronics has announced the release of 16-bit RL78 / F24 and RL78 / F23 microcontrollers intended for automobiles. They are designed to operate as sensors and actuators, and are interesting in that they are positioned to support the development of advanced technologies in the next generation...
Renesas Electronics introduced the ClockMatrix 2 family of chips – high-performance and accurate multichannel synchronizers for 400 and 800 Gbit / s optical transport and wired network applications. Building on ClockMatrix devices introduced in 2019 for 5G wireless and 100/200 Gbps wired applications, the second generation family features improved performance....
At the IEDM 2021 international conference this week, Renesas Electronics announced the development of two technologies that reduce the energizing time of a write operation to Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (STT-MRAM). With the accelerated proliferation of IoT in recent years, it has been argued, there has been a strong demand...
Renesas has expanded its portfolio of low-noise amplifiers and beamforming transmitters with three dual-beam ICs: F6121 for Ku-band satellite communications, F6122 for Ka-band satellite communications and F6123 for Ku-band radars and line-of-sight communications. Their advantages include best-in-class power consumption and noise figure, small size and ease of integration. The new...
Renesas recently unveiled two dual-polarized beamforming ICs optimized for 2×2 antenna architectures for 5G mmWave and broadband wireless connections. They are said to offer best-in-class performance in the n257, n258 and 261. The more integrated F5288 and F5268 (8T8R) transceivers are packaged in 5.1 x 5.1 mm BGA packages and...
Renesas Electronics this week unveiled a group of RH850 / U2B microcontrollers designed to meet the growing need to integrate multiple applications on a single chip and implement a single electronic control unit (ECU) for the evolving electro-electronic (E / E) architecture. Providing a combination of high performance, flexibility, noise...
Renesas Electronics recently announced the development of a new generation of microcontrollers that will support the recently adopted Bluetooth 5.3 Low Energy (LE) specification. They will join the Renesas Advanced (RA) family of 32-bit Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers, joining the RA4W1 Bluetooth 5.0 LE microcontrollers introduced last year. Renesas expects to...
Renesas Electronics has announced that its R-Car H3 and R-Car M3 SoCs have been selected by Toyota Motor for the next generation of car multimedia systems. Toyota’s next-generation multimedia system will debut for the first time in the Lexus NX, scheduled for release in November 2021. It is planned that...
Renesas Electronics, one of the world’s largest suppliers of chips for automotive electronics, said it plans to continue ordering its products from contract manufacturers, despite the Japanese government trying to revive local semiconductor manufacturing. Although the Tokyo-based company makes some of the chips in-house, it relies on overseas manufacturers such...
Renesas Electronics has unveiled an innovative automotive gateway solution that includes R-Car S4 SoCs and Power Controllers (PMICs). According to the manufacturer, this solution can serve as the basis for next-generation car computers, communication gateways, domain servers and application servers. It meets the high demands of the automotive industry in...
Renesas Electronics has unveiled the RX140 32-bit ultra-low power microcontroller group that complements the entry-level RX100 series. The RX140 microcontrollers, built on the powerful Renesas RXv2 processor core, clocked at up to 48 MHz, perform 204 points in the CoreMark test, which is about twice the result of the RX130...
Renesas Electronics has unveiled the RAA2S425x family of ICs for automotive pressure measurement systems. According to the manufacturer, these chips provide high-precision amplification and sensor-specific signal correction in automotive braking systems, transmissions and HVAC systems. The RAA2S425x family is highly integrated with advanced digital and analog features that greatly simplify...
Renesas this week unveiled the RX671 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) group, which combines high performance and rich functionality with touch and voice recognition capabilities for a non-contact human machine interface (HMI). Part of the RX600 series, the RX671 microcontrollers are based on the RXv3 processor core, clocked at 120 MHz. The...
Japanese chip maker Renesas Electronics today reported a 115% increase in operating profit between January and June compared to the same period last year. Growth has been recorded as the company is recovering from a devastating fire at its main plant. Renesas had an operating profit of $ 600 million...
Renesas Electronics, renowned for its advanced semiconductor solutions, and Syntiant, a deep learning chip for intelligent voice and sensor processing in edge devices, have announced joint development of a multimodal AI and voice-controlled solution. It allegedly enables contactless interaction and image processing in artificial intelligence-based IoT systems and edge systems...
Panasonic will soon cease production of a key component for home solar power plants due to a global shortage of semiconductor products. At the end of June, the manufacturer sent a notice to customers that it would postpone the supply of power conditioners or stabilizers. This is how the consequences...
