Renesas choose Altium as PCB design software for its internal work

Renesas, the global automotive semiconductor leader who makes world's leading microcontroller chips has announced that it has standardized development of all printed-circuit board (PCB) design on the Altium 365 cloud-based platform from Altium, LLC, an exclusive PCB design software solutions provider competing with Cadence and Siemens. Chipmakers generally provide reference designs and test kits in the form of ready to use boards to test their chips. So a lot of board development happens internally. For that purpose and any other such circuit design, Renesas selects a single PCB design software helping Renesas to integrate components from its different business groups Renesas had recently acquired. Renesas says a uniform PCB design tool will streamline board designs used for demonstrating and evaluating reducing complexity, improving cost structure and faster time to market.

Renesas calls its reference designs as "Winning Combinations" which are engineering-vetted designs integrating company's embedded processing, analog, power, and connectivity. Renesas can also share its PCB design related data to its customer to speed up designs and lowering overall risk in bringing designs to market. Renesas now offers more tha...