Renesas Microcontroller & Microprocessor Product and Development Tool - help you design and debug high-quality embedded systems in
less time at less cost
Renesas microcontrollers (MCUs) and microprocessors (MPUs) enable system designs that have major advantages for a wide span of
applications. Renesas MCUs and MPUs offer outstanding combinations of performance, functionality and power dissipation at compelling price points.
Overview of Our Development Systems
Utilising Realtime OSs and Software Components
Realtime OSs have made a big contribution to reducing software development times. For the H8 family and SuperH family,
Renesas offers the HI series realtime OS which is compliant with the µITRON 4.0 specifications. For the M16C and M32C series and M32R family,
Renesas has a µITRON 3.0 compliant OS. These realtime OSs will be combined by 2004. The first phase of this is the provision of a common
configuration and a common debug interface. The core will comply with the µITRON 4.0 specifications.
In addition to µITRON, operating systems such as OSEK and Windows CE are supported and many of Renesas's partner companies offer products for
Renesas microcomputers that use these and other OSs. Many different operating systems including VxWorks from Wind River, OS-9 from RadiSys,
Nucleus PLUS from Mentor Graphics, Linux, and others can be used. In addition to the OS, use of upstream tools and software components including
middleware such as drivers and protocol stacks are a key to efficient software development.
Product Range Spans from Full Emulators to OCD Emulators
Renesas provides two types of emulator: full emulators and OCD (on-chip debugging) emulators. The full emulators include the E8000,
E6000H, E6000, PC7501, and PC4701U (Figure 4). Renesas supplies OCD emulators that comply with the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation SDI (Scalable
Debug Interface) specification, as well as OCD emulators from Hitachi, Ltd that include the E10A, which complies with the microcomputer H-UDI
(User Debugging Interface) specification, and the proprietary E10T.
See figure below for emulator product range
A number of different solutions are available that allow software testing at an early stage
A cycle-accurate simulator is available for all 8 to 32-bit microcomputers from Hitachi, Ltd. This integrates with HEW and allows
program performance evaluation, debugging, and other testing to be performed in a graphical environment. A similar simulator-debugger is available
for 8 to 32-bit Mitsubishi Electric Corporation microcomputers.
A co-verification environment is available that combines the SuperH core (SH-4, SH2-DSP, and SH3-DSP) and M32R core with the Menter Graphics Seamless
CVE. These tools make it easy to create a simulation environment for custom chips that are based on the SuperH core or M32R core.
For both general-purpose microcomputers and special-purpose microcomputers, if you are using an existing chip, early-stage evaluation can be performed
using reference boards. More than 6000 of the Solution Engine evaluation boards for the SuperH family, which are produced by Hitachi, Ltd ULSI Systems,
have been shipped. A reference kit is also available for the M32R. A Solution Engine for the M16C and M32C series will be available in the future.
The T-Engine board and µT-Engine board are also available (figure below). The T-Engine is a solution that uses a realtime OS (T-Kernel) on a standardized
CPU board to assist the efficient development and distribution of middleware and makes rapid application development possible. Renesas T-Engine and
µT-Engine boards include versions for both the SuperH and M32R.
