Renesas Electronics America Inc. announced today for its
RL78 microcontroller family new compiler support from IAR Systems, real-time
operating systems (RTOS) from Micrium and CMX Systems, and Wi-Fi® (802.11n)
support from Redpine Signals, Inc.
“To support the market’s needs for industry-standard
development tools and middleware solutions, Renesas Electronics America has
teamed up with select technology partners,” said Ritesh Tyagi, director of
microcontroller product marketing, Consumer & Industrial Business Unit,
Renesas Electronics America. “The RL78 family’s outstanding low-power
characteristics and extensive line-up combined with a well-established
ecosystem offer designers world-class solutions for 8- and 16-bit embedded
systems.”
IAR Systems’ Embedded Workbench® provides a highly optimized
C and C++ compiler for the RL78 MCU family and supports the E1 on-chip debugger
and IECube in-circuit emulator tools, both from Renesas Electronics.
Additionally, the Embedded Workbench comes bundled with C-SPY® real-time
debugger, and the instruction simulator.
“We’re pleased in our partnership with Renesas
Electronics by adding development tools support to the new RL78 series of MCU
devices. Our industry-standard IAR Embedded Workbench will bring a complete ecosystem
development environment for the RL78 MCUs, and we are able to provide Renesas
Electronics customers with high-quality service and technical support,”
said Nadim Shehayed, U.S. general manager, IAR Systems.
“Embedded designers can gain a competitive edge by
using Micrium’s feature rich, reliable, efficient, compact and scalable
µC/OS-II and µC/OS-III kernels which have been ported to the RL78 family of
processors”, said Jean Labrosse, founder, president and CEO of Micrium.
“Battery-operated, power-sensitive and environmentally conscious
applications can further benefit from Micrium’s µC/OS-II’s and µC/OS-III’s
ability to easily enter the RL78 MCUs’ SNOOZE and HALT modes when idling.”
CMX Systems, a well-known supplier of real-time operating
systems, has ported its CMX-RTX operating system to Renesas Electronics’ RL78
MCU family. “We are pleased to provide Renesas Electronics RL78 MCU
customers access to our small-footprint, low-latency RTOS,” said Chuck
Behrmann, CEO of CMX Systems. “The CMX-RTX is a truly preemptive,
multi-tasking RTOS offering one of the smallest footprints, fastest context
switching times, and lowest interrupt latency times available.”
Renesas Electronics America and Redpine Signals have jointly
developed 802.11a/b/g/n wireless-connectivity solutions to add low-power,
single-stream 802.11n Wi-Fi capability to embedded systems that use Renesas
Electronics’ RL78 MCUs. “Redpine is pleased to extend its close
collaboration with Renesas Electronics into offerings for the new RL78 MCU
family”, said Venkat Mattela, CEO of Redpine Signals.