Renesas currently employs multiple PCB design tools across the company, in part because different companies that Renesas has acquired over the past several years have brought their own legacy software into the company.
As Renesas integrates components from these different groups into system solutions, a uniform PCB design tool will help to streamline board designs used for demonstrating and evaluating the company’s ‘Winning Combinations’ and other product kits. The aim is to reduce complexity, improve cost structure and speed up time to market.
Renesas’ Winning Combinations are engineering-vetted designs integrating embedded processing, analogue, power, and connectivity. They allow customers to take advantage of an elevated platform for their design ideas, accelerating product development cycles and lowering overall risk in bringing designs to market.
Renesas now offers more than 400 Winning Combinations for a wide range of customers and markets.
Altium 365 is a cloud-based PCB design platform. With Altium 365, users can collaborate with stakeholders and other participants while maintaining IP security and keeping designs under revision control. Users can organise designs, libraries, and participants in one place while sharing links to designs for real-time collaboration.
With the use of CAD-specific intelligence, data can be stored and accessed online.
Renesas said that it will publish all its products’ ECAD libraries to the Altium Public Vault.
With features such as manufacturer part search on Altium 365, customers can choose Renesas parts directly from the Altium library for faster time to market.
“Renesas has made a commitment to digital transformation and making the customer design process easier,” said Chris Allexandre, Senior Vice President, CSMO and Head of the Global Sales and Marketing Unit at Renesas. “The ECAD tool migration is an important step in our journey, and we look forward to continuing collaboration and to strengthening our partnership with Altium.”
“This migration tightly aligns with Renesas’ solution and digitalisation strategy, which includes Quick-Connect Platforms and other strategic initiatives,” said DK Singh, VP Renesas System and Solution Team. “This development workflow harmonization will enable internal global collaboration and make it easier for customers to integrate Renesas products and solutions into their systems.”
Renesas said that it would continue to offer full support to customers leveraging ECAD design platforms other than Altium and provide ECAD libraries for other ECAD tools as needed by customers.
