Renesas Technology Corp. has announced the following changes in its management team, to take effect on April 1, 2009. The new appointments are subject to approval of the general shareholders’ meeting to be held before the end of March, 2009.

Renesas Technology Corp. has announced a variety of structural reforms that will be undertaken to reinforce its business structure as part of the company’s key strategy in achieving growth from FY2009 onward.

Renesas Technology Europe has announced the SH7776 (SH-Navi3), a dual-core system-on-chip (SoC) device with on-chip enhanced graphics functions and a high-performance image recognition processing function for the next generation high-performance car information terminals. The device integrates two SH-4A high-performance 32-bit CPU cores on a single chip and achieves a superior processing performance of 1,920 million instructions per second (MIPS)...

Renesas Technology Europe and Luleå University of Technology announced today the results of their partnership commenced in 2007 when the University joined the Renesas University programme. Focusing on real demand from industry, staff and students at the University’s EISLAB have aimed their development projects at embedded internet system (EIS) applications. One of these developments has now been taken into commercial production. It is an inte...

Renesas Technology Europe today announced the HD Video Middleware, which will facilitate the development of applications for the SH-Mobile application processor supporting recording and playback of video in the 1280 × 720-pixel High Definition (HD) resolution. The new middleware will be available from April.

Renesas Technology Europe has announced the SH72531, a 32-bit MCU designed for powertrain control of automobile engines and transmissions. The device features a high-speed operation of up to 120 MHz and 1.25 megabytes of on-chip high-speed flash memory.

Renesas Technology Europe has announced the R2J20651NP Integrated Driver-MOSFET. Available in a 40-pin QFN 6 mm x 6 mm package, the device is designed for use in the CPU and DDR type SDRAM power supplies used in PCs and servers and achieves, what is believed to be, the industry’s highest power supply efficiency of 96.5% at Vin = 5 V, Vout = 1.8 V.

Renesas Technology has announced the development of logical and physical layer intellectual property (IP) conforming to PCI Express Base Specification Revision 2.0 (PCI Express 2.0), a high-speed serial interface standard.

Renesas Technology Europe has announced that it has become a contributing member of the HomePlug Powerline Alliance, the only global standard that addresses high speed and low speed powerline networking applications. Contributor members help set HomePlug's direction in an advisory capacity to the Board of Directors. In addition, such members become actively involved in working groups or may also chair on the working group committees.

Renesas has announced the R2J15116FP, a compact, high-performance digital amplifier supporting IIS*1 digital audio signal input with a built-in 24-bit audio DSP. It is intended for use in thin flat-screen TVs employing LCD or plasma display panels.

Renesas has transferred all shares of the former Renesas Semiconductor Europe (Landshut) GmbH (RSEL), to Silicon Foundry Holding GmbH (SFH). As of today, the former RSEL facilities in Landshut are owned by SFH, a Germany-based company specializing in semiconductor pure-play foundry services.

Renesas Technology Europe today announced a major expansion of its popular M16C microcontroller platform*1 with the addition of USB 2.0 device class support. The M16C/6C group comprises 16 different models, and the new devices are fully compatible with earlier versions. The USB 2.0 specification compliant, 12 Mbps full-speed interface supports the standard transfer types of control, bulk and interrupt. The supporting FIFO is 584 bytes. Featuring ...

Renesas Technology Europe today announced an expansion of its popular M16C Platform microcontroller*1 lineup with 16 low voltage models that can operate down to 1.8V. These devices, especially trimmed versions of the M16C/60 group, are fully compatible with previous products.

Renesas Technology Europe today announced the availability of 64-pin QFP, 80-pin QFP and 100-pin 5.5mm x 5.5mm LGA package versions of its popular 32-bit CISC R32C/111 microcontroller. The R32C/100 series is the top-level product series in the M16C Platform, *1 which is a CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) microcontroller. The core is upward compatible with existing CPU cores in the platform, and also provides improvements in operation proce...

Renesas Technology Europe announces the introduction of the SH7205 to the SuperH microcontroller Family. The device is the first true dual core microcontroller available from Renesas Technology for consumer and industrial applications. It is intended for a wide range of mass-market products including digital audio/visual, office automation, factory automation, and any other systems requiring connectivity, motor control functionality, and high per...

Renesas Technology Europe has announced the SH74504 and SH74513, 32-bit MCUs with embedded flash memory for automotive driver-assist system control applications. Designed around Renesas’ SH-4A CPU core, they have been developed specifically for driver-assist systems such as those capable of obstacle detection and collision avoidance.

Renesas Technology Europe today announced that it has commenced development of low power and fast SRAM products that are specifically suited to automotive applications. They are available as 4, 16, or 32Mbit low power SRAM and 4Mbit fast SRAM devices. Sample shipments will commence during June 2009 followed by mass production during July 2009.

NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, and Renesas Technology today announced that they have expanded the licensing agreement on NXP’s MIFARE technology. This agreement is aiming to build momentum for the availability of advanced payment and Near Field Communication (NFC) offerings in contactless infrastructures.

Renesas Technology Europe announced today the signing of a license agreement to use Yitran’s high speed 150kpbs PLC technology in its expanding family of narrowband PLC communications devices.

Renesas Technology Europe announced today the immediate availability of the H8SX/1725F 32-bit CISC MCU. The device has a split embedded MONOS*1 Flash module, 256KByte high speed Flash for code and 16KByte high endurance Flash for data. The speed of the code Flash is 12.5ns, with a roadmap to deliver 10ns capability in 2009, when the device will be available in a 90nm shrink version.