Renesas 365 is intended to streamline electronics system development from silicon selection through to system lifecycle management and while it will be demonstrated at Embedded World in Nuremberg next week it is not expected to be available until early 2026.
This announcement is being seen as significant as it follows on from Renesas’ acquisition of Altium. Built on the Altium 365 platform, Renesas 365, Powered by Altium, looks to eliminate inefficiencies, connect teams and ensure digital continuity, so accelerating development and enabling engineers to build better, smarter products.
Embedded system development often suffers from manual component searches, fragmented documentation, and siloed teams so Renesas 365 looks to address these challenges by connecting Altium’s cloud platform with Renesas’ embedded compute, analogue & connectivity, and power portfolio.
By integrating hardware, software, and lifecycle data into a single digital environment, it will be possible to streamline workflows, accelerate time to market, ensure digital traceability and real-time insights, while improving decision-making from concept to deployment.
“The introduction of Renesas 365 is a major milestone toward Renesas’ Digitalization vision. We envision making electronics design accessible to broader market to allow more innovation by creating an Electronics System Design and Lifecycle Management platform together with Altium,” said Hidetoshi Shibata, CEO of Renesas. “Renesas 365 transforms how intelligent, connected electronic systems are designed, developed, and sustained.”
Renesas 365 is built on five interconnected solution pillars, ensuring seamless system-level integration and continuous digital context throughout the product lifecycle:
Silicon –Renesas 365 ensures that every silicon component is application-ready and optimised for software-defined products. Whether for ultra-low-power IoT devices or demanding AI-driven applications, Renesas 365 delivers silicon that seamlessly integrates with the broader system.
Discover – Powered by Altium, Discover enables engineers to find not just components but complete solutions from Renesas’ comprehensive portfolio for faster and more accurate system design.
Develop – Powered by Altium, Develop provides a multidisciplinary cloud-based development environment, ensuring real-time collaboration across hardware, software, and mechanical teams.
Lifecycle – Powered by Altium, Lifecycle establishes persistent digital traceability, enabling seamless over-the-air (OTA) updates and ensuring compliance and security from concept to deployment.
Software – Provides AI-ready development tools to ensure software-defined systems are optimised for modern applications.
Renesas 365 is aligned with emerging industry trends by providing a unified software framework for software-defined systems spanning low- to high-compute performance; AI-ready development tools that enable real-time, low-power AI inference at the edge; and advanced security, compliance tracking, and automated OTA updates to ensure secure lifecycle management.
According to Renesas, the Renesas 365 will help to bridge the gap between silicon and system development and by ensuring seamless collaboration, real-time decision-making, and persistent system context, it will help to redefine how electronics systems are designed, developed, and sustained.
