Düsseldorf, 17 February 2015 – Renesas Electronics Europe, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, is expanding its collaboration with IS2T, a leading provider of state-of-the-art software technology for embedded systems, to simplify software complexities for emerging Internet of Things (IoT) markets. With their latest collaboration, Renesas Electronics and new Alliance Partner member IS2T extend the support of the MicroEJ® software platform from the RX microcontrollers (MCUs) to the latest Renesas RZ/Agroup of microprocessors (MPUs). The RZ/A features an ARM Cortex A9 CPU that clocks at 400MHz, up to 10Mbytes of on-chip SRAM, a TFT LCD interface with graphic accelerators, and numerous communication peripherals.
Renesas and IS2T’s ambition is to offer Java and C/C++ developers an embedded software platform that drastically lowers costs of building application software. That software platform contributes to easily expand product ranges, build a consistent and improved user experience across several devices, and accelerate specification process for HMI-based applications specifically targeted by the Renesas RZ product family. Typical markets include building automation, smart appliances, industrial control, gateways, and concentrators. The scalability of the MicroEJ software platform allows the same application to run on a wide range of Renesas RX MCU and RZ MPU devices with various operating systems, depending on cost/performance constraints. Renesas and IS2T will also provide support for the Renesas RZ-A1 Renesas Starter Kit (RSK) board featuring a graphic display.
“Software complexity for embedded design will be a challenge as emerging IoT markets continue to solidify and grow. As an embedded solutions leader, we recognize these challenges and are working with strategic partners to simplify the design experience for customers working with our MPUs and MCUs,” said Mohammed Dogar, Senior Manager, Renesas Electronics Europe. “We are pleased to expand our partnership with IS2T and bring MicroEJ embedded software platform to our innovative RZ MPUs, enabling customers to move their embedded devices from prototype to market quickly and with confidence. Thanks to our partnership with IS2T, we are bringing development cost control to our customers and a speedier time-to-market without any sacrifice on the performance of the device.”
“By using the combined solutions from both Renesas and IS2T, a customer can save on development costs, and accelerate revenues by improving time to market. The MicroEJ platform reduces software complexity, and enhances Renesas portfolio capabilities, scalability, and software components reuse, resulting in much better software productivity, which is required by all companies today”, said Dr. Fred Rivard, CEO, IS2T. “For the past year, IS2T and Renesas have collaborated to support MicroEJ on the Renesas RX MCUs. Extending that support to the RZ-A1 MPU, with its 10 Mbytes of embedded RAM and 1000 MIPS, we will bring the MicroEJ software platforms to an unheard level of performance, allowing customers to bring new products designed with Renesas MCUs/MPUs to market quicker than ever.”
About Renesas and the IS2T MicroEJ
MicroEJ encompasses the entire embedded software lifecycle management – prototyping, development and testing – powered by a development environment simulating the target hardware. It offers access to the Java technology within a very small footprint and can run a Java engine (Virtual Machine) on the RZ MPU without requiring external DRAM, enabling high-level programming while reducing cost and complexity.
The MicroEJ software platform provides a set of extensions to accelerate development: human-machine interface (HMI) and user experience, numerical for digital signal processing, Internet of Things (IoT) for networking, and remote device management.
The rich, easy-to-use, and ultra-efficient UI provides a set of thread-safe graphic libraries using the model-view approach, enabling PC-based simulations and code re-use over multiple Renesas’ part Numbers, allowing for full re-use overall products and accelerating prototyping, development and automatic testing.
About the Renesas Alliance Partner Program
The Renesas Alliance Partner Program consists of more than 800 companies that complement a customer’s in-house design and development expertise with additional design consultants, software partners, programming houses, tool vendors and manufacturing companies that all team to speed time to market.
Availability
The MicroEJ® software platform is available now for RZ/A MPUs. Graphics demos featuring the MicroEJ GUI capability are also available.
For more information on MicroEJ® for RZ and access to the evaluation version, visit: http://www.renesas.eu/applications/key_technology/human_interface/rz_hmi_solution/index.jsp or
http://www.is2t.com/renesas/
About IS2T
Headquartered in Nantes, France, IS2T is the editor of the MicroEJ software platform and related tools, to design smart and flexible embedded applications, and deploy them to a wide range of devices from resource-constrained embedded systems, to mobiles, and beyond. IS2T is experiencing a strong and steady growth in a large variety of industries including home appliances, communication devices, energy, automotive, medical, aerospace, industrial control, metering, and building automation.
More information can be found at http://www.is2t.com/
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About Renesas Electronics Europe
Renesas Electronics is the world’s number one supplier of microcontrollers and a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, including system-on-chip and a wide range of discrete analogue and power devices. Established in 2010, Renesas Electronics combines the collective semiconductor expertise of Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric and NEC Electronics, encapsulating more than 200 years’ experience.
Renesas’ products are the result of decades of research and investment into semiconductor technology and customer solutions. Today, they provide pioneering platforms for the advancement of the Smart Society, embedding intelligence, connectivity, safety and security in solutions for cars, homes, buildings and factories. In Europe, Renesas complements its cutting-edge technology with resources that foster customer proximity and span the entire product lifecycle. These include the European Technology Centre, which designs innovative solutions specifically for Europe, and the European Quality Centre in Düsseldorf, which provides technical support to customers throughout the region. Renesas also operates an effective ecosystem, comprising the industry’s largest local support network and an extensive network of over 800 hardware and software alliance partners.
Headquartered in Japan, Renesas Electronics has subsidiaries in 20 countries worldwide. More information is available atwww.renesas.eu
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