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A new design platform streamlines electronics system development from component selection to software development by integrating hardware, software, and lifecycle data into a single digital environment. Renesas 365 is built around Altium 365, a design suite that provides seamless access to component sources and intelligence while connecting all stakeholders throughout the creation process.
Embedded system developers often struggle due to manual component searches, fragmented documentation, and siloed design teams. Renesas 365 addresses these challenges by connecting Altium’s cloud-connected system design platform with Renesas’ components for embedded compute, connectivity, analog, and power applications.
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Renesas 365, built around Altium’s system design platform, streamlines development from component selection to lifecycle management. Source: Renesas
Renesas CEO Hidetoshi Shibata calls it a first-of-its-kind solution. “It’s the next step in the digital transformation of electronics, bridging the gap between silicon and system development.” Renesas has joined hands with the company it acquired last year to redefine how electronics systems are designed, developed, and sustained—from silicon selection to full system realization—in a connected world.
Here is how Renesas 365 works in five steps.
- Silicon: Renesas 365 will ensure that every silicon component is application-ready, optimized for software-defined products, and seamlessly integrated with the broader system.
- Discover: This part powered by Altium enables engineers to find components as well as complete solutions from Renesas’ portfolio for faster and more accurate system design.
- Develop: Altium powers this part to provide a cloud-based development environment to ensure real-time collaboration across hardware, software, and mechanical teams.
- Lifecycle: Also powered by Altium, this part establishes persistent digital traceability to facilitate over-the-air (OTA) updates and ensure compliance and security from concept to deployment.
- Software: This part provides developers with artificial intelligence (AI)-ready development tools to ensure that the software is optimized for their applications.
The final part of Renesas 365 offerings demonstrates how a unified software framework covering low- to high-compute performance can help developers create software-defined systems. For instance, these development tools enable real-time, low-power AI inference at the edge. They can also track compliance and automate OTA updates to ensure secure lifecycle management.
This cloud-connected system design platform can aid developers in everything from component selection to embedded software development to OTA updates. Meanwhile, it ensures that existing workflows remain uninterrupted and supports everything from custom AI models to advanced real-time operating system (RTOS) implementations.
Renesas will demonstrate this system design platform live at embedded world 2025, which will be held from 11 to 13 March in Nuremberg, Germany. The company’s booth 5-371 will be dedicated to presentations and interactive demonstrations of the Renesas 365 solution.
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