Renesas Electronics today announced the availability of six new 4th-generation (X4 generation) V850-based S-series microcontrollers (MCUs), ideally suited to car infotainment systems and networking. The new products include two MCUs from the V850E2/SG4-H group with 100 pins, two MCUs from the V850E2/SJ4-H group with 144 pins and two MCUs from the V850E2/SK4-H group with 176 pins.

Renesas Electronics has announced the availability of its new 32-bit microcontroller (MCU), the SH7734, with improved graphics and network functionality for automotive, industrial and consumer applications that include an LCD panel. The SH7734 MCU features an Open VG conformant graphics accelerator and a gigabit Ethernet controller.

Renesas Electronics, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, and its subsidiary, Renesas Mobile Corporation, an innovative supplier of advanced cellular semiconductor solutions and platforms, today announced the availability of its new 32-bit microcontroller (MCU), the SH7734, with improved graphics and network functionality for automotive, industrial and consumer applications that include an LCD panel. The SH7734 MCU features an ...

Renesas Electronics America Inc today announced three new intelligent power devices (IPDs), the µPD166011, µPD166013 and µPD166014, for use in automotive lighting systems for turn signals and brake light applications. The new IPDs integrate into a single package, power metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (Power MOSFETs) as switching elements and control circuits for protection and self-diagnostic functions.

Adjustable to Match the Required LED Drive Voltage, Allowing Approximately 20 Percent Reduction in Power Consumption

Renesas Electronics Corporation have announced the availability of five 16-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), the RL78/I1A family, that implement in a single chip the LED control, power supply control, and communication functions required in LED lighting fixtures.

NEC LCD Technologies Ltd. together with Renesas Electronics Europe have introduced two new transflective colour thin film transistor (AM-TFT) LCD modules for industrial applications and applications requiring indoor and outdoor viewability. The display modules, a 6.5-inch SVGA (800 x 600) (part number NL8060BC16-01) and a 10.4-inch XGA (1024 x 768) (part number NL10276BC20-10), incorporate NLT’s proprietary super-reflective natural light TFT (S...

NEC LCD Technologies Ltd together with Renesas Electronics Europe has announced the introduction of two new 7.2-inch 3D colour thin film transistor (AM-TFT) LCD modules for industrial display applications, the NL8060BH18-01 and NL8060BH18-02. The modules incorporate NLT’s proprietary HDDP (horizontally double-density pixels) technology and are targeted for use in a variety of industrial applications such as 3D CAD/CAM, technical/user manuals, b...

Renesas Electronics, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced that the cumulative total shipment of the company's SuperSpeed Universal Serial Bus (USB 3.0) host controllers has reached 30 million units worldwide as of May 19, 2011. This achievement comes only a year and a half after starting mass production of the world's first USB host controller (µPD720200) in September 2009, and is the landmark that establishes ...

Renesas Electronics, has announced the availability of the digital ambient illuminance sensor, the PH5551A2NA1, with an industry-leading compact and thin package. The PH5551A2NA1 device is the company’s first entry into the market for ambient illuminance sensors and incorporates Renesas Electronics’ technology expertise accumulated in the development and commercialization of photo detector IC products for CD, DVD, and BD players.

Renesas Electronics has announced the availability of an IGBT drive optocoupler product, the PS9402, featuring an integrated insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT, Note 1) protection function. The PS9402 optocoupler comprises a gallium-aluminium-arsenide (GaAlAs) LED as the light emitting element, a photodetector IC, and an IGBT protection circuit.

Renesas announced the availability of the digital ambient illuminance sensor, the PH5551A2NA1, with an industry-leading compact and thin package.

Following the announcement made on April 22, 2011, Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) today released a second updated preliminary schedule for its Naka wafer fabrication factory in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki.

Renesas announced today for its RL78 microcontroller family new compiler support from IAR Systems, as well as real-time operating systems (RTOS) from Micrium and CMX Systems.

Renesas Electronics Corporation and TELEFUNKEN Semiconductors GmbH & Co. KG today announced that they have signed an agreement under which Renesas Electronics America Inc. will sell its semiconductor wafer fabrication facility in Roseville, California, to TELEFUNKEN Semiconductors International LLC, a company that includes TELEFUNKEN Semiconductors GmbH. The sale price is approximately 53 million U.S. dollars, and the closing for the sale is plan...

Real time top view application using 4 vehicle-mounted cameras

Renesas Electronics today announced the availability of its two new SuperSpeed Universal Serial Bus (USB 3.0) xHCI host controllers for electronic devices such as PCs and digital TVs that feature faster effective data transfer speeds and reduced power consumption in low power mode.

Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced its support of the newly released Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact 7 operating system for the company's systems-on-chip (SoCs) including the R-Car series of SoCs to offer new functionality and a development environment that supports the quick creation of small, smart, securely connected devices. Standard, familiar tools extend the reach that Windows developers have into new categories of small, po...

Renesas Electronics Europe today announced that it will expand its Solid State Lighting (SSL) support infrastructure to provide dedicated support for the Remote Device Management (RDM) protocol. The announcement underlines Renesas Electronics’ commitment to developers and users of intelligent lighting controls, particularly for lighting-related communications. This new level of support expands Renesas Electronics’ family of dedicated lighting...

Renesas Electronics today introduced the first products in the new RX200 Series of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) with embedded Flash memory that extend its very successful RX MCU family into the realm of ultra-low power and wide-voltage range operation.