Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Renesas Electronics America expands ecosystem for RL78 MCU family

ESC Silicon Valley 2011, SANTA CLARA, USA: Renesas Electronics America Inc. announced for its RL78 microcontroller family new compiler support from IAR Systems, real-time operating systems (RTOS) from Micrium and CMX Systems, and Wi-Fi (802.11n) support from Redpine Signals Inc.

“To support the market’s needs for industry-standard development tools and middleware solutions, Renesas Electronics America has teamed up with select technology partners,” said Ritesh Tyagi, director of microcontroller product marketing, Consumer & Industrial Business Unit, Renesas Electronics America. “The RL78 family’s outstanding low-power characteristics and extensive line-up combined with a well-established ecosystem offer designers world-class solutions for 8- and 16-bit embedded systems.”

IAR Systems’ Embedded Workbench provides a highly optimized C and C++ compiler for the RL78 MCU family and supports the E1 on-chip debugger and IECube in-circuit emulator tools, both from Renesas Electronics. Additionally, the Embedded Workbench comes bundled with C-SPY® real-time debugger, and the instruction simulator.

"We’re pleased in our partnership with Renesas Electronics by adding development tools support to the new RL78 series of MCU devices. Our industry-standard IAR Embedded Workbench will bring a complete ecosystem development environment for the RL78 MCUs, and we are able to provide Renesas Electronics customers with high-quality service and technical support,” said Nadim Shehayed, US general manager, IAR Systems.

“Embedded designers can gain a competitive edge by using Micrium’s feature rich, reliable, efficient, compact and scalable µC/OS-II and µC/OS-III kernels which have been ported to the RL78 family of processors,” said Jean Labrosse, founder, president and CEO of Micrium. “Battery-operated, power-sensitive and environmentally conscious applications can further benefit from Micrium’s µC/OS-II's and µC/OS-III's ability to easily enter the RL78 MCUs’ SNOOZE and HALT modes when idling.”

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