Renesas and Altium jointly launch "Renesas 365 Powered by Altium"

Renesas Electronics, together with Altium, a global provider of advanced electronics design software, announced the launch of Renesas 365 Powered by Altium (" Renesas 365 "), a pioneering solution for the electronics industry. Designed to optimize the entire process of electronic development from chip selection to system lifecycle management. The transformative solution will be unveiled at the Embedded Expo in Nuremberg, Germany, on March 11-13 at Booth 5-371, and is expected to be available in early 2026.

The launch of Renesas 365 marks an important milestone in Renesas' acquisition of Altium, highlighting the transformative potential of the technology convergence between the two companies. Renesas 365, built on the Altium 365 platform, is designed to eliminate inefficiencies, enable team collaboration, facilitate solution discovery and ensure digital continuity, thereby accelerating development and empowering engineers to build better, smarter products.

Leading the future of electronic systems innovation

Renesas 365 will address long-standing challenges in the electronics industry. Embedded system development usually faces the problems of manual component search, document fragmentation and team collaboration barriers. Renesas 365 addresses these challenges by integrating the Altium advanced cloud platform with Renesas' comprehensive product portfolio, including embedded computing, analog and connectivity, and power. Optimize workflows by integrating hardware, software, and lifecycle data into a single digital environment, speed product to market, ensure digital traceability and real-time insights, and improve the entire decision-making process from concept to deployment.

Hidetoshi Shibata, CEO of Renesas, said: "The launch of Renesas 365 is an important milestone in realizing Renesas' digital vision. By creating an electronic systems design and lifecycle management platform with Altium, we hope to make electronic design easily accessible to the broader market, inspiring even more innovation." Renesas' expertise in embedded semiconductor solutions, combined with Altium's experience in electronics design and collaboration, will create this groundbreaking industry solution. Renesas 365 will revolutionize the way intelligent, connected electronic systems are designed, developed and continuously optimized."

Five core pillars

Renesas 365 is built on five interconnected solution pillars that ensure seamless system-level integration and continuous digital connectivity throughout the product lifecycle:

Silicon - The foundation of modern electronics solutions, Renesas 365 ensures that every chip is application-ready and optimized for software-defined products. Whether targeted at ultra-low power iot devices or AI-driven applications with high performance requirements, Renesas 365 offers chips that seamlessly integrate with the overall system.

Discover - Powered by Altium, the Component sourcing portal not only helps engineers quickly find components, but also complete solutions from Renesas' comprehensive product lineup to accelerate system design and improve accuracy.

Develop - Powered by Altium, the Electronics Collaborative Development platform provides a multi-domain cloud-based development environment that ensures real-time collaboration between hardware, software and mechanical teams.

Lifecycle - Powered by Altium, the full lifecycle management program establishes persistent digital traceability for seamless and smooth over-the-air (OTA) updates and ensures compliance and security from concept to deployment.

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

For the next generation of electronic innovation

Renesas 365 is designed to drive the next generation of electronics innovation, closely aligned with emerging industry trends. By providing a unified software framework to meet the diverse needs of software-defined systems from low to high computing power; Equipped with AI-enabled development tools, enabling edge devices to achieve real-time, low-power AI reasoning; Advanced security, compliance tracking, and automated over-the-air (OTA) updates ensure full lifecycle security management from design to deployment.

Setting 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 a connected world - from chip selection to complete system implementation.