Renesas, the world's largest supplier of industrial microcontrollers, has expanded its Synergy Platform with a new family of devices based around the ARM Cortex-M0+ to accelerate time to market, reduce total cost of
ownership and remove many of the obstacles engineers face when designing
devices for the Internet of Things (IoT).
The expansion includes the launch of the S124 Group of Synergy Microcontrollers (MCU) with ultra-low power operating characteristics
and precise analogue signal acquisition and generation for sensor
applications. An updated version of the Synergy
Software Package (SSP) and the e2 studio Integrated Solution Development
Environment (ISDE) tool supports the new devices with optimisations for the ThreadX real time operating system.
The S124 family is based on Renesas’
proprietary ultra-low power technology consuming just 70.3 µA per MHz of MCU
clock speed for extremely long battery life in low power and battery-powered
portable applications. These MCUs carry advanced analogue signal capabilities with
14bit ADC, 12bit DAC and
low power comparators. User interface applications are supported with more than
30 channels of capacitive touch sensing inputs. Connectivity includes USB-FS and CAN interfaces, plus safety and security are assisted with
on-chip support for SRAM parity checking, a NIST-compliant True Random Number
Generator (TRNG), and AES-256 cryptography with chaining.
The MCU packages are as
small as 4 mm x 4 mm for space-constrained end-products such as smart edge-node IoT sensors, home appliance control, and point-of-sale
terminals.
“The Synergy Platform continues to grow in value to both developers and their end-customers,” said Mark Rootz, Marketing Director of Renesas’ Internet of Things Business Unit, Renesas Electronics America. “This new S124 Synergy MCU Group is another example of platform growth that brings ARM Cortex-M0+ based MCUs to the lower end of the application spectrum while remaining completely scalable and compatible with the companion Cortex-M4 based Synergy MCUs. Software support for these new S124 MCUs is there by expansion of the SSP enabling customers to quickly and easily migrate between all Synergy MCU groups as their needs change and still be able to re-use existing application code. We continue to evolve all elements of the Synergy Platform and build value as demonstrated here with new MCUs, new software, plus ever-growing tool and partner support for the platform.”
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| Peripherals for the S124 microcontrollers for IoT applications from Renesas |
Development support for the new S124 MCUs
and the DK-S124 development kit is provided in SSP version 1.1.0 and e2 studio
version 5.0. The SSP v1.1.0 has specific optimizations for the ThreadX real-time
operating system (RTOS) and the USBX communication stack to work efficiently
within the S124 MCU’s smaller memory sizes.
SSP v1.1.0 also includes enhancements for IPv6 networking
and services for connected devices, BSD-compatible socket layer support,
support for SSI audio and CAN communications, plus several additions to the
Application Framework.
e2 studio v5.0 is now built upon the latest updated eclipse
v4.5 (Mars release) plus it includes many new features to enhance automated
guidance for starting new Synergy Platform projects such as presenting all
building blocks of a project in a graphical stack representation for
simplification of workflow and providing complete visibility into overall
memory usage at a glance.
The platform expansion also includes five new Verified Software Add-ons (VSA) for home and industrial automation including Echonet, CANopen, and BACnet, plus
secure communications, and cloud services. The US-based VSA products are now available on the Synergy Gallery – Cypherbridge Systems SDKPac for
Synergy secure IoT and web connectivity including SSL/TLS, Icon Labs for
security services including firewall and secure boot, and Skkynet for secure
real-time data connectivity, on premise or cloud-based (SaaS).
The S124 controllers are now in mass production
status and will be available through Renesas sales channels in April 2016,
along with their development kits. An early preview of SSP v1.1.0 and e2 studio
v5.0 will be available on the Synergy Gallery at end of February 2016 with
final released versions available in April 2016.
This means three Synergy MCUs Groups in the Synergy MCU Family have
reached mass production status – the S124, S3A7, and S7G2 families – representing
30 individual Synergy MCU part numbers in a wide variety of memory and package sizes
ranging from 128 KB to 4 MB of flash memory. More MCU Groups are on the way, as
well as new qualified SSP software capabilities, tools, kits, solutions, and
verified partners.
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