SAN JOSE, Calif. — Renesas Technology America, Inc., and Micrium have announced a joint marketing program that allows customers buying the Renesas SH7216 SuperH™ microcontroller to obtain a free, single-product license for the high-quality Micrium real-time kernel, complete with email and phone technical support. Customers can also purchase middleware components at a 50% discount. The limited-time program¹ enables system engineers to quickly apply the power and functionality of the 100/200MHz, 32-bit RISC MCU in building/home automation and industrial motor control applications — and do so at less cost and with less engineering risk. The synergistic hardware/software combination enables customers to focus on the value-added features that differentiate successful electronic products.
Offering an advanced chip supported by commercial-quality third-party software
Commenting on the program, Ritesh Tyagi, director of marketing for the System LSI business unit at Renesas Technology America, Inc., said, “Our customers have frequently told us that they need commercial-quality, fully-supported third-party software for building reliable, scalable systems. Micrium, a platinum-level technology partner, has long supported SuperH microcontrollers. Now, qualified² customers can get a popular real-time kernel (μC/OS-II or μC/OS-III) at no cost when they purchase our SH7216 chip. Moreover, they can buy Micrium’s high-quality, feature-rich middleware at half price. These are compelling reasons to evaluate the SH7216 and design it into new generations of embedded systems.”
Delivering important monetary and engineering benefits
Jean Labrosse, president of Micrium Inc., said, “The SH7216 has tremendous application potential. System engineers can best tap the design opportunities it opens up by using our real-time kernel and middleware. In doing so, they gain significant monetary and engineering benefits because Renesas will cover, for a limited time, the cost of a µC/OS-II or µC/OS-III kernel when they purchase the microcontroller. Customers get 50% off our middleware products, too. The Renesas/Micrium hardware/software solution provides substantial ease-of-use and time-to-market advantages, while enabling system designs that achieve new levels of performance.”
Putting the SH7216’s great speed and extensive functionality to work
The SH7216 has up to 1MB of on-chip flash memory with 128KB SRAM, operates at 100 and 200MHz, incorporates an FPU, and achieves up to 400 DMIPS performance when executing out of the embedded flash memory. The 32-bit superscalar microcontroller provides a broad range of Ethernet, USB and CAN communication capabilities. Additionally, the chip integrates many optimized peripherals, including the functions needed for advanced motor control applications in AC servos, factory automation equipment and general-purpose inverters. A built-in 32KB data flash memory with background operation eliminates the need for external EEPROMs.
Micrium’s real-time kernels are compact, portable designs used in thousands of products, including safety-critical systems. Scalable and ROM-able, they support most MISRA-C rules, are third-party certified and ensure that run-time is guaranteed for OS tasks. The µC/TCP-IP, µC/USB Device, µC/File System, and µC/CAN middleware products that Micrium offers conform to applicable standards, are highly reliable, and put the processing power of the SH7216 chip to work with high efficiency.
About Renesas Technology Corp.
Renesas Technology Corp. is the world’s No.1 supplier of microcontrollers and one of the world’s leading semiconductor system solutions providers for mobile, automotive and PC/AV (Audio Visual) markets. It is also a leading provider of Power MOSFETs, Smart Card microcontrollers, RF-ICs, High Power Amplifiers, Mixed Signal ICs, System-on-Chip Devices (SoCs), System-in-Package Devices (SiPs) and more. Established in 2003 as a joint venture between Hitachi, Ltd. (TOKYO:6501)(NYSE:HIT) and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503), Renesas Technology achieved consolidated revenue of 702.7 billion JPY in FY2008 (end of March 2009). Renesas Technology is based in Tokyo, Japan and has a global network of manufacturing, design and sales operations in 16 countries with 25,000 employees worldwide. For further information, please visit www.renesas.com
About Micrium Corporation
Micrium Inc. provides the highest-quality embedded software components, offering the cleanest source code available, unsurpassed documentation and excellent customer support. The flagship product, µC/OS-II, and all other products in the complete line of software help shorten time-to-market throughout all product development cycles and are built to address today’s increased system design complexity. Additional information is available at www.micrium.com
