On March 6, 2025, Beijing, China - Renesas Electronics (TSE: 6723), a global semiconductor solution provider, and Altium, a global advanced electronic design software supplier, jointly announced the launch of "Renesas 365 Powered by Altium" (hereinafter referred to as "Renesas 365"), a groundbreaking solution for the electronics industry aimed at optimizing the entire process of electronic development from chip selection to system lifecycle management. This transformative solution will be showcased at booth 5-371 at the Nuremberg International Embedded Exhibition in Germany from March 11th to 13th, and is expected to be launched in early 2026.

The release of Renesas 365 marks an important milestone in Renesas' acquisition of Altium, highlighting the transformative potential brought about by the technological integration between the two parties. Renesas 365, built on the Altium 365 platform, aims to eliminate inefficient processes, achieve team collaboration, facilitate solution exploration, and ensure digital continuity, thereby accelerating the development process and empowering engineers to create higher quality and smarter products.

Leading the future of electronic system innovation

Renesas 365 will be committed to addressing the long-standing challenges in the electronics industry. Embedded system development often faces issues such as manual component searching, fragmented documentation, and barriers to team collaboration. Renesas 365 addresses these challenges by organically integrating Altium's advanced cloud platform with Renesas' comprehensive product portfolio, including embedded computing, simulation and connectivity, and power supply. By integrating hardware, software, and lifecycle data into a unified digital environment to optimize workflows, accelerate product launch, ensure digital traceability and real-time insights, and improve the entire decision-making process from concept to deployment.

Hidetoshi Shibata, CEO of Renesas, stated that the launch of Renesas 365 is an important milestone in realizing Renesas' digital vision. We hope to collaborate with Altium to create an electronic system design and lifecycle management platform that enables a wider market to easily engage in electronic design, thereby stimulating more innovation. Renesas' expertise in embedded semiconductor solutions, combined with Altium's experience in electronic design and collaboration, will jointly create this groundbreaking industry solution. Renesas 365 will completely change the way intelligent interconnected electronic systems are designed, developed, and continuously optimized

Five core pillars

Renesas 365 is built on five interconnected solution pillars, ensuring seamless system level integration and continuous digital connectivity throughout the entire product lifecycle

Silicon - As the foundation of modern electronic solutions, Renesas 365 ensures that every chip is ready for application and optimized for software defined products. Whether it is for ultra-low power IoT devices or AI driven applications that require high performance, the chips provided by Renesas 365 can seamlessly integrate with the overall system.

Discover – Powered by Altium， The component sourcing portal not only helps engineers quickly locate components, but also enables them to find complete solutions from Renesas Electronics' comprehensive product lineup, thereby accelerating system design and improving accuracy.

Develop – Powered by Altium， The electronic product collaborative development platform can provide a multi domain cloud based development environment, ensuring real-time collaboration between hardware, software, and mechanical teams.

Lifecycle – Powered by Altium， The full lifecycle management solution establishes persistent digital traceability to achieve seamless and smooth over the air (OTA) updates, ensuring compliance and security from concept to deployment.

Software - Provides AI optimization development tools to ensure that software defined systems can meet the needs of modern applications.

Facing the Next Generation of Electronic Innovation

Renesas 365 aims to drive innovation in the next generation of electronic products, closely aligned with emerging industry trends. Adapt to the diverse needs of software defined systems from low to high computing power by providing a unified software framework; Equipped with AI enabled development tools, empowering edge devices to achieve real-time, low-power AI inference; Simultaneously possessing advanced security, compliance tracking, and automated over the air (OTA) update capabilities to ensure full lifecycle security management from design to deployment.

Establishing a new industry standard: connecting chips and systems

Renesas 365 is not only a technological innovation, but also an important step in the digital transformation of the electronics industry, bridging the gap between chip and system development. By ensuring seamless collaboration, real-time decision-making, and continuous system context, Renesas and Altium will redefine the way electronic systems are designed, developed, and continuously optimized in the interconnected world - from chip selection to complete system implementation.

Experience the powerful features of Renesas 365 at the International Embedded Exhibition

At this international embedded exhibition, Renesas will present Renesas 365 through vivid live demonstrations, showcasing its powerful capabilities as a unified industry solution for modern electronic development. This seamlessly connected cloud platform will help engineers easily transition from conceptual design to prototype management, and then to device cluster management.

Attendees will experience firsthand how Renesas 365 optimizes the entire design process from chip selection to embedded software development, to edge AI and over the air (OTA) updates. The seamless integration of this platform ensures the continuity of existing workflows, supporting everything from customized artificial intelligence models to advanced real-time operating system (RTOS) implementations such as PX5 RTOS, helping to bridge the software gap between MCU and MPU fields.

Welcome to the International Embedded Exhibition (November 13, 2023, Nuremberg, Germany) to learn about Renesas 365. In addition, Renesas and Altium will showcase more innovative products at their respective booths.

Renesas 365： Booth 5-371, specifically designed for the Renesas 365 solution, will feature Renesas 365 demonstrations and interactions.

Renesas Electronics: Booth 1-234 will showcase Renesas' comprehensive advanced semiconductor solutions through product introductions, functional demonstrations, and customer seminars.

Altium： Booth 4-305 will showcase Altium's advanced solutions aimed at supporting businesses of all sizes, all stakeholders, and various applications within the Altium ecosystem.

About Renesas Electronics

Renesas Electronics (TSE: 6723), with technology making life easier, is committed to creating a safer, smarter, and more sustainable future. As a global microcontroller supplier, Renesas Electronics integrates expertise in embedded processing, simulation, power supply, and connectivity to provide complete semiconductor solutions. The successful product portfolio accelerates the launch of automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT applications, empowering billions of connected smart devices to improve people's work and lifestyle. For more information, please visit renesas.com. Follow Renesa's WeChat official account to find more exciting content.

About Altium

Altium Limited is a subsidiary of Renesas Group, headquartered in San Diego, California, USA. It is a global software company dedicated to accelerating electronic innovation. Altium provides digital solutions to maximize the productivity of electronic design, connect all stakeholders throughout the design process, provide seamless access to component resources and information, and manage the entire electronic product lifecycle. The Altium ecosystem has accelerated the implementation process of electronic products in various industries and enterprises of all sizes.

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