Renesas is new Multicore Association board member

"Renesas is a leading innovator in the areas of microcontrollers and SoCs for applications spanning automotive, audio-visual devices, communications, and factory automation. Renesas involvement with the Multicore Association, especially focused on our new Software-Hardware Interface for Multi-Many Core standard, will provide very well-rounded guidance and a practical perspective on designing with multicore technology," comments Markus Levy, Multicore Association President.

Fumio Arakawa, Chief Professional, CPU Development Department, Core Technology Business Division, 1st Solution Business Unit of Renesas Electronics, commented: “Renesas strongly supports the MCA and its mission to guide the long-term development of open standards for multicore solutions. Our history is marked by a commitment to innovation that's truly useful for customers, as well as dedication to open standards and a broad ecosystem that furthers industry-wide collaboration. Our work with MCA supports that commitment. As we advance the technology within our products based on multicore and manycore architectures, it will become critical for our development tool partners to have a standardized interface to the hardware – this in turn will benefit our customers and support quicker time to market.”

The Multicore Association provides three levels of membership, with executive board, working group, and university members. The executive board helps determine the overall direction of the organization. Working group members are eligible to work on any of the working groups. University members may participate in any of the Multicore Association’s ongoing development work.