Company Profile:
Renesas
Headquartered in Buckinghamshire, UK, Renesas Technology Europe has offices in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany (3 offices), Israel, Italy, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and Turkey.
In Europe, Renesas focuses on automotive (control, networking, infotainment), wireless (GSM, CDMA and Bluetooth), smart card and industrial microcontroller applications.
It employs over 150 engineers to develop solutions for the European market and to assist customers with application development. Renesas is a leading supplier in smart card ICs in Europe. Europe is the world's largest market for automotive electronics and microcontrollers, and is the region of most design influence for wireless electronic products. Feedback from customers in this market has great influence on Renesas' product development. For further information, visit Europe visit http://eu.renesas.com.
Latest Renesas Products
Renesas gives RL78 MCU 12-bit A/D converter
January 30 2012 - Renesas Electronics has expanded its RL78 family of low cost microcontrollers with the RL78/G1A 16-bit MCUs that integrate new analogue peripherals... more
Renesas adds resolver sensor interface to V850 MCU
January 19 2012 - Renesas Electronics has a 32-bit microcontroller, the V850E2/PJ4-E, which incorporates an on-chip resolver sensor interface... more
Renesas offers µC/OS-III real-time kernel for V850 MCUs
November 28 2011 - The µC/OS-III kernel is able to run multiple high-priority tasks at the same time. The foundation of µC/OS-III is its optimised task manager which supports both pre-emptive and round-robin scheduling... more
Renesas 32-bit microcontroller with improved graphics
June 17 2011 - Renesas Electronics is offering a 32-bit microcontroller with improved graphics and network functionality for automotive, industrial and consumer applications that include an LCD panel. The SH7734 MCU features an Open VG compliant graphics accelerator and a Gigabit Ethernet controller.... more
Renesas reduced pin-count MCUs for LCD control
February 01 2011 - Optimised for low power designs, the R8C/LA3A and LA5A MCUs comprise a total of two groups with 32 pins and 52 pins integrating up to 64kbyte of programmable flash memory... more
Renesas 55V power mosfets get package shrink
January 24 2011 - Renesas Electronics has announced a number of N-channel power Mosfets with voltage tolerances of 40 and 55V... more
Renesas adds USB 2.0 controller to R8C MCUs
December 09 2010 - Renesas Electronics now offers flash microcontrollers (MCUs) with a built-in USB 2.0 host/function controller... more
Renesas mosfets have 4.8mohm R(DS)on
August 05 2010 - The range includes N-channel mosfets with voltage ratings of 40 and 60V and P-channel mosfets with a voltage rating of –30V... more
Renesas RX610 microcontrollers based on RX CPU core
March 12 2010 - Renesas Technology has started full production of RX610 microcontrollers which are based on its new unifying RX CPU core.... more
Renesas Linux & BSP for multimedia
December 08 2009 - At no additional cost, there is a Linux Board Support Package (BSP) featuring an up-to-date Linux kernel, compiler and tool-chain versions, as well as all the drivers needed for a quick start... more
Renesas ups MCU memory for VGA graphics
November 04 2009 - Renesas Technology has introduced eight versions of the SH7266 and SH7267 32-bit MCUs with a 50% increase in on-chip SRAM size of 1.5Mbyte... more
Renesas SuperH 1 MCU with 3.75Mbyte flash
October 23 2009 - Renesas Technology has introduced the SH72546R SuperH 1 Family microcontroller designed for use in automotive engine and transmission control systems... more
Renesas offers quick start for QVGA TFT drive design
August 11 2009 - It combines the R32C/111 starterKit and a TFT-add-on-board developed by Segger... more
Renesas has Segger RTOS and TCP/IP stack for SH7670
August 04 2009 - Renesas Technology, working with Segger, has launched a TCP/IP stack, embedded graphical user interface and real-time operating system (RTOS) for Renesas' SH7670 SuperH microprocessor... more
Renesas SH-Mobile HD1 mobile phone application processor
May 07 2009 - Renesas SH-Mobile HD1 mobile phone application processor provides full HD video recording and playback support.... more
Renesas SH/Tiny Flash microcontrollers in 16Kbyte version
May 05 2009 - Renesas Technology Europe has added 16Kbyte Flash versions to its line of low pin count, SH/Tiny Flash microcontrollers. ... more
Renesas RX610 microcontrollers for embedded systems
March 27 2009 - Renesas Technology announced the first RX Family microcontroller (MCU) products built around the RX CPU for embedded systems. ... more
Renesas SDK1725 development starter kit
March 20 2009 - Renesas Technology and German firm Port have launched a SDK1725 starter kit for the development of dual CAN applications. ... more
MPC Data and Renesas Little Blue Linux development kits
March 18 2009 - MPC Data and Renesas Technology Europe have announced the Little Blue Linux range of professional embedded Linux software development kits (SDK’s). ... more
Renesas enhanced H8S 16-bit CISC microcontroller range
March 17 2009 - Renesas Technology Europe has enhanced its H8S family of 16-bit CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) microcontrollers with the addition of the H8S/2424, H8S/2426, H8S/2426R, H8S/2454, H8S/2456 and H8S/2456R groups.... more
Renesas SH-Navi dual core SoC device
February 18 2009 - Renesas Technology has introduced a dual-core system-on-chip (SoC) device with graphics and image recognition processing on-chip.... more
Renesas SH72531 automotive microcontroller
January 20 2009 - Renesas has introduced a 90nm 120MHz 32bit automotive microcontroller. ... more
Renesas R2J15116FP digital amplifier
December 15 2008 - Renesas has announced a 15+15W digital audio amplifier IC that supports IIS digital input. ... more
Renesas SH74504 and SH74513 32-bit MCU
November 18 2008 - Automotive driver-assist microcontrollers feature direct RAM input interfaces.... more
Renesas licenses Yitran’s 150kbit/s technology for narrowband
November 11 2008 - Renesas has licensed Yitran’s high speed 150kbit/s power line communications technology for its family of narrowband communications devices.... more
Renesas Technology Europe H8SX/1725F 32-bit CISC MCU
October 28 2008 - High speed MONOS Flash 32-bit MCU aimed at safety-critical automotive and medical applications.... more
Renesas SH77721 first in SH-NaviJ series of SoCs
October 16 2008 - Renesas Technology SH77721 as first-phase product in SH-NaviJ Series of SoCs for low- to middle-range car navigation systems.... more
Renesas SH-2A-based SuperH microcontroller
October 13 2008 - SH-2A-based SuperH microcontroller for mid-range motor control and inverter applications.... more
Renesas MCUs for high security M2M wireless comms apps
October 01 2008 - Renesas Technology has a range of microcontrollers for high security M2M (machine-to-machine) wireless comms applications, such as the AE470G.... more
Renesas AE470G secure MCU for M2M wireless communication apps
September 26 2008 - Renesas Technology releases AE470G secure MCU for machine-to-machine wireless communication applications.... more
Renesas reference design for SH7722 multimedia processors
September 15 2008 - Renesas Technology has teamed with German company Emtrion to create a reference design for its SH7722 multimedia processors.... more
Renesas Technology SH72544R SuperH1 microcontrollers
August 04 2008 - Renesas Technology's SH72544R SuperH1 microcontrollers are designed for use in automotive engine and transmission control systems.... more
Renesas Technology 16-Bit MCUs with on-chip flash memory
July 25 2008 - Renesas Technology has released 14 MCUs in the M16C Family with on-chip flash memory for automotive body and chassis control applications.... more
Renesas Technology R8C/Tiny Series 16-Bit MCUs grow by 36 models
July 16 2008 - Renesas Technology Europe has announced the addition of a total of 36 new models (72 type names) in 12 groups featuring enhanced functions and higher package pin counts. ... more
Renesas Technology high-frequency power Mosfets
July 09 2008 - Renesas Technology’s latest high-frequency power Mosfets, designed for use in the transmitter power amplifier of handheld wireless equipment, the devices achieve 60% added power efficiency in the RQA0010 at 3.6V and 55% in the RQA0014. ... more
Renesas Technology range of R8C/Tiny 16-bit microcontrollers
June 30 2008 - Renesas Technology has announced availability of a range of R8C/Tiny 16-bit microcontrollers which are being targeted as application specific parts for low end motor control, lighting and small appliances.... more
Renesas high-performance 32-bit MCUs for digital audio and graphical apps
May 28 2008 - With 1Mbyte of on-chip SRAM, the SH7262 and SH7264 provide a video display controller and digital video input pins for use with graphical and video display applications. ... more
Renesas offers support for starter kit
February 11 2008 - Xilinx has expanded its portfolio of no-fee intellectual property (IP) cores for its FPGAs.... more
Renesas Technology develops dual-core processors
February 05 2008 - Renesas Technology Europe today announced the development of the SH7786 group of dual-core processors built around twin SH-4A CPU cores.... more
Renesas adds to SuperH family
January 16 2008 - 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.... more
Renesas 16-bit H8 microcontroller-based evaluation platform
November 26 2007 - Renesas introduces 16-bit H8 microcontroller-based evaluation platform that demonstrates an LCD direct drive capability for supporting QVGA size TFT and STN LCD panels.... more
Renesas RX family of cisc microcontrollers
November 15 2007 - Renesas Technology completes design of CPU core for next-generation microcontrollers, and introduces details of 'RX family'... more
Renesas enhanced 16-Bit secure MCUs five times faster for smart cards
November 14 2007 - 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. ... more
Renesas SH-Mobile application processors for Digital TV on mobiles
October 16 2007 - Renesas Technology improves line-up of SH-Mobile application processors for digital TV capable mobile phones... more
Renesas microprocessor delivers 2.8 GFLOPS to industrial applications
September 25 2007 - Renesas Technology Europe has announced the immediate availability of the SH7780 microprocessor that delivers Pentium-class floating point performance into consumer and industrial markets.... more
Renesas Technology microcontrollers aimed at motor control applications
September 14 2007 - Renesas Technology is aiming its H8/36079LF microcontroller, with on-chip oscillators, analogue inputs and timers, at motor control in industrial applications.... more
Renesas high performance 3V micros provide motor control solution
September 03 2007 - 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. ... more
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