Renesas Electronics and Renesas Mobile intro SuperH MCU supporting high-resolution displays and Gigabit Ethernet

TOKYO, JAPAN: Renesas Electronics Corp. and its subsidiary, Renesas Mobile Corp. 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. The MCU features built-in Open VG 1.1 2D graphics display functions, allowing animation-like displays to be implemented with minimal amounts of memory to improve human-machine interfaces (HMI) in application equipment.

To provide high speed data communications, the SH7734 MCU also includes a built-in Ethernet controller with data rate of 1 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) To support higher performance systems and system miniaturization, 16 versions of the SH7734 are available including offerings with and without an SD memory card interface.

It has become increasingly common for equipment that includes a display to require advanced graphics functionality. In addition to higher performance and higher resolution LCD panels, more and more products, from OA equipment, home appliances, games, through security systems, also acquire information from multiple external sources over a network and display it in a variety of different ways.

This has created a strong demand for graphics functions such as those in the Open VG to implement even more complex HMIs. To address these needs, single-chip solutions are demanded that not only provide high-functionality and high-resolution display functions and high-speed network connectivity, but also integrate powerful peripheral functions that can contribute to system miniaturization.

While Renesas Electronics already mass produces MCUs with built-in display function and these products have been widely adopted in applications that include displays, Renesas Electronics meets the increased and future market demands by releasing the SH7734 MCU, which integrates both an Open VG conformant graphics accelerator and a Gigabit Ethernet controller.