Renesas joins the bandwagon of IOT platform vendors

To the growing list of IOT platform vendors, the new addition is Renesas. Renesas makes a lot of IOT specific semiconductor chips such as microcontrollers. It is important to provide a IOT platform for a company such as Renesas to support its broad range of 8-bit to 32-bit microcontroller chips using both licensed IP core such as ARM and also its proprietary IP cores. The platform named Synergy integrates a fully qualified software package and intuitive APIs. The new platform allows embedded systems developers to start product development at the API level allowing them to be more innovative and add differentiated features. “Engineering teams used to spend valuable development time writing software ranging from low-level peripheral drivers to complex communication and specialty stacks. This resulted in months of engineering resources spent integrating, testing, and maintaining software that didn’t differentiate the end-product in the market,” said Ali Sebt, Senior Vice President, Renesas Electronics Corporation. “By enabling engineers to start design at the software API level and enjoy a real-time control system without the need to build any baseline functionality, the Renesas Synergy platform accelerates embedded development, inspires innovation and enables differentiation.” Renesas made this platform a complete one, so that engineers are not required to purchase any...