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  Automotive battery management system (BMS) design has evolved as battery chemistry, reliability and technology have stabilised, writes Niall Lyne, senior product line director in the Automotive Business Unit at Renesas Electronics

Renesas has announced the ISL78083, a highly integrated power management IC (PMIC) that simplifies power supply design for use in multiple HD camera modules, reducing development cycles, BoM cost and supply chain risks. The automotive camera PMIC accepts direct-from-battery (36-42V) or power-over-coax (15-18V) supply sources and supports output currents up to 750mA per output. This power level offers ample headroom for existing image sensors up to seven megapixel and future sensors with even higher resolution.

Renesas has announced its ISL91301B Power Management IC (PMIC) is designed into the latest Google Coral products. They include the Mini PCIe Accelerator, M.2 Accelerator A+E Key, M.2 Accelerator B+M Key, and System-on-Module (SoM). Google Coral integrates seamlessly into processes at any scale, helping designers create a variety of local Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions for several industries.

Renesas has announced that its power solutions, as well as timing solutions from IDT, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Renesas, support the Xilinx Versal Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) devices featured on the Xilinx VCK190 evaluation kit and the Renesas VERSALDEMO1Z power reference board. Built on 7nm process technology, according to the company, Versal is the industry's first ACAP platform that addresses the needs of a wide range of applications in data centre, automotive, 5G wireless, and wired and defence markets.

WattShare enables smart devices, such as smartphones, to charge wirelessly and then, to provide power wirelessly to accessory devices, such as smart watches and wearable devices, and earbud cases.

Renesas has announced five new 8.2mm creepage photocouplers that are, according to the company, the world’s smallest isolation devices for industrial automation equipment and solar inverters. With a package width of 2.5mm, the RV1S92xxA and RV1S22xxA photocouplers reduce PCB mounting area by 35% compared to competitive couplers. They help designers shrink equipment size, increase robot axes, and improve factory floor productivity.

Renesas has introduced the RX23W - a 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) featuring Bluetooth 5.0 for IoT endpoint devices such as home appliances and healthcare equipment. By combining Bluetooth 5.0 with Renesas’ Trusted Secure IP on its popular high performance RX MCU family, Renesas offers customers an optimised single-chip solution for system control and wireless communication, while also providing a more secure way to answer the Bluetooth security risks such as eavesdropping, tampering, and viruses.

  Renesas has announced the development of the R-IN32M4-CL3 IC for industrial Ethernet (IE) communication. Renesas’ latest industrial network device heralds support for CC-Link IE Time Sensitive Networking (TSN), a communication standard for next-gen Ethernet TSN technology.

Renesas has recently introduced the ASI4U-V5 ASSP - according to the company it is the industry’s first silicon solution to fully implement the ASi-5 (Actuator Sensor Interface version specification version 5) standard for industrial network equipment. ASi-5 offers performance and usability over ASi-3, delivering 1.27 ms cycle time, 200m cable length and 96 slaves per segment.

Renesas has announced the first ten ready to use partner solutions that support the RA MCU Family of 32-bit Arm Cortex-M MCUs. RA MCUs deliver optimised performance and ease of use with the Flexible Software Package (FSP) and partner building block solutions that work out-of-box to address a range of IoT endpoint and edge applications.

Renesas has introduced its RE Family, which encompasses the company’s current and future lineup of energy harvesting embedded controllers. The RE Family is based on Renesas’ proprietary SOTB process tech, which dramatically reduces power consumption in both the active and standby states, eliminating the need for battery replacement or recharging.

  Renesas Electronics has announced the ability to simplify the device-to-cloud experience for IoT developers. Renesas’ extensive secure embedded design experience will be combined with easy and seamless out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Azure RTOS across Renesas’ microcontroller (MCU) and microprocessor (MPU) portfolio.

Renesas Electronics has unveiled the Renesas Advanced (RA) Family of 32-bit Arm Cortex-M MCUs. RA MCUs deliver the ultimate combination of optimised performance, security, connectivity, peripheral IP, and easy-to-use Flexible Software Package (FSP) to address the next generation of embedded solutions. To support the new family, Renesas has built a comprehensive partner ecosystem to deliver an array of software and hardware building blocks that will work out of the box with RA MCUs.

The Dynamically Reconfigurable Processor (DRP) is runtime-reconfigurable hardware that combines the flexibility and expansion capability of a software programmable CPU with the performance and efficiency of dedicated IP. 

  Power designers have to efficiently power and cool data centre and networking equipment, while ensuring minimal electricity usage, says Chance Dunlap, Renesas Electronics

Renesas Electronics has announced four new RX651 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) supplied in ultra-small 64-pin BGA and LQFP packages. The new lineup expands Renesas’ popular RX651 MCU Group with a 64-pin (4.5x4.5mm) BGA package that reduces footprint size by 59% compared to the 100-pin LGA, and a 64-pin (10x10mm) LQFP that offers a 49% reduction versus the 100-pin LQFP.

Renesas Electronics has announced three new 15Mbps photocouplers designed to withstand the harsh operating environments of industrial and factory automation equipment. The trend toward higher voltage, compact systems is driving stricter International safety standards and eco-friendly solutions that require smaller ICs with lower power consumption.

Renesas has announced it has developed an AI accelerator that performs CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) processing at high speeds and low power to move towards the next generation of Renesas embedded AI (e-AI), which will accelerate increased intelligence of endpoint devices. A Renesas test chip featuring this accelerator has achieved the power efficiency of 8.8 TOPS/W (Note 1), which according to the company, is the industry's highest class of power efficiency.

Renesas Electronics has introduced the RX72M Group of RX microcontrollers (MCUs) featuring an EtherCAT slave controller for industrial Ethernet communication. The new flagship product group for the Renesas RX family offers a high performance, single-chip MCU solution with large memory capacities for industrial equipment requiring control and communication functions such as compact industrial robots, programmable logic controllers, remote I/O, and industrial gateways.

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, has announced the development of a new flash memory technology that achieves larger memory capacities, higher readout speeds, and over-the-air (OTA) support for automotive microcontrollers (MCUs) using the next-generation 28nm process.