Renesas Electronics

Renesas Electronics Corporation
ルネサス エレクトロニクス株式会社

Type	Public (KK)
Traded as	TYO: 6723
Industry	Semiconductor
Predecessor	NEC Electronics Corporation, Renesas Technology Corporation
Founded	November 1, 2002 (2002-11-01) (Started operation on April 1, 2010)
Headquarters	Tokyo (registered head office: Kawasaki), Japan
Key people	Yasushi Akao, Representative Director, President Masaki Kato, Representative Director and Executive Managing Vice President[1]
Products	Microcontrollers, Power MOSFETs, mixed-signal ICs, IGBT, Diodes, small signal transistors, display driver ICs, compound semiconductors, ASIC, ASSP
Employees	46,000 (Consolidated)[2]
Website	www.renesas.com

Renesas Electronics Corporation Global Headquarters, Nippon Building, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Renesas Electronics Corporation (ルネサス エレクトロニクス株式会社, Runesasu Erekutoronikusu Kabushiki Gaisha^?) TYO: 6723 is a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer. It is based in Tokyo and has manufacturing, design and sales operations in around 20 countries^[3]. Renesas is one of the world's largest manufacturers of semiconductor systems for mobile phones and automotive applications. It is the world's largest manufacturer of microcontrollers and the second largest manufacturer of application processors.^[4] Renesas is also known for LCD drivers, RF ICs, mixed-signal integrated circuits and system-on-a-chip semiconductors.

The largest stockholders and their ownership ratio of Renesas are as follows^[5].

NEC Corporation (TYO: 6701)	33.97%
Hitachi, Ltd. (TYO: 6501)	30.62%
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TYO: 6503)	25.05%

History

Renesas Electronics started operation in April 2010, through the integration of NEC Electronics Corporation and Renesas Technology Corporation. NEC Electronics was established in November 2002 by a spin-off of the semiconductor operations of NEC. Renesas Technology was established on April 1, 2003, as a joint venture of Hitachi, Ltd. (55%) and Mitsubishi Electric (45%).

In April 2009, Renesas Technology and NEC Electronics reached a basic agreement to merge by around April 2010.^[6]

On April 1, 2010 NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology merged forming Renesas Electronics which became the fourth largest semiconductor company according to iSuppli published data.^[7]

Products

The product range includes a wide variety of semiconductor components, such as:

• System LSIs
  • Microcontrollers/microprocessors (including smart cards)
  • ASICs
  • Logic ICs
  • Analog ICs
• Discrete devices (diodes, Power MOSFETs, thyristors and triacs, transistors)
• Memory ICs (Flash, SRAM)

M16C Microcontroller Family

M16C microcontrollers

The M16C is a 16-bit embedded microcontroller originally developed and manufactured by Mitsubishi Semiconductor. It is available in a number of different versions with various amounts of flash memory and uses the same instruction set across the range which allows engineers to keep the same code base and development tools.

R8C microcontrollers

The R8C is an 8-bit microcontroller with a 16-bit ALU. It was developed as a cost-effective version of the M16C. It retains the M16C's 16-bit CISC core architecture and instruction set, but trades performance for size by reducing the internal data bus from 16-bits to 8-bits. It is available in a number of different versions with up to 128KB of flash memory and SRAM.^[8]

All R8C microcontrollers have an internal ring oscillator and can be used without external resonators. Common interfaces are UART and the R8C/22 and R8C/23 devices have CAN interfaces. Some devices have internal data flash memory, which is meant as a replacement for serial EEPROM, although it handles fewer write cycles than a real serial EEPROM. R8C devices also feature on-chip debugging (see In-circuit emulator).

R32C microcontrollers

The R32C is a 32-bit microcontroller originally developed by Renesas as a 32-bit version of the M16C. It is available in a number of different versions with up to 1MB of flash memory and up to 48KB of RAM.

H8 Microcontroller Family

See also: H8 Family

H8 is the name of a large family of 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers originally developed in the early 1990s by Hitachi Semiconductor.

RX Microcontroller Family

The RX family of 32-bit CISC microcontrollers was introduced in 2009 and is marketed as a successor to the M16C and R32C products.^[9]

SuperH Microcontroller Family

See also: SuperH

SuperH is a 32-bit embedded RISC microcontroller originally developed and manufactured in the early 1990s by Hitachi Semiconductor.

V850 Microcontroller Family

See also: V850

V850 is a 32-bit embedded RISC microcontroller originally developed and manufactured by NEC, succeeded by V850 variants named V850ES, V850E, and V850E2 which run uClinux.

78K0 Microcontroller Family

78K0R Microcontroller Family

RL78 Microcontroller Family

RL78 Family is Renesas Electronics' microcontroller family combining advanced features from both the 78K and R8C families to deliver low power consumption and high performance.

AUTOSAR MCAL

Renesas developes AUTOSAR MCAL solutions for several devices. see also About AUTOSAR

References

1. ^ "Executive Team". Renesas Electronics Corporation. Jun 2011. http://www.renesas.com/comp/profile/executive_bios/. Retrieved 22 July 2011. 
2. ^ "Company profile". Renesas Electronics Corporation. April 2011. http://www.renesas.com/comp/profile/. Retrieved 21 April 2011. 
3. ^ "Renesas Electronics Corporation Commences Operations". Renesas Electronics Corporation. 1 April 2010. http://www.renesas.com/press/news/2010/news20100401a.jsp. Retrieved 21 April 2011. 
4. ^ Stefan Constantinescu (18 February 2008). "Renesas became the world's number 2 supplier of application processors practically overnight". http://www.intomobile.com/2008/02/18/renesas-became-the-worlds-number-2-supplier-of-application-processors-practically-overnight.html. Retrieved 2009-05-21. 
5. ^ "Distributions of Shareholders and Shares". Renesas Electronics Corporation. 1 April 2010. http://www.renesas.com/ir/stock/overview.html. Retrieved 2011-04-21. 
6. ^ "Renesas, NEC reach basic agreement to merge: Nikkei". Reuters. 23 April 2009. http://www.reuters.com/article/innovationNews/idUSTRE53M7B020090423. Retrieved 2009-05-21. 
7. ^ "Renesas Electronics is biggest 'non-memory' chip firm". ElectronicsWeekly.com. 2 April 2010. http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/04/02/48342/renesas-electronics-is-biggest-non-memory-chip-firm.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-03. 
8. ^ "Renesas R8C Microcontroller". Microcontroller.com. http://www.microcontroller.com/Embedded.asp?did=163. 
9. ^ "RX Family". Renesas Electronics. http://www.renesas.com/products/mpumcu/rx/rx_landing.jsp. Retrieved 8 May 2011. 

External links

• Renesas Electronics