Renesas Electronics Corporation, a provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced that it has standardized the development of all printed circuit board (PCB) designs on the Altium 365 cloud-based platform from Altium, LLC, a global software company headquartered in San Diego. Diego, California.
Renesas currently employs several PCB design tools across the company, in part because different companies it has acquired in recent years have brought their own legacy software into the company.
As Renesas integrates components from these different groups into system solutions such as Winning Combinations, a uniform PCB design tool will streamline board designs used to demonstrate and evaluate these Winning Combinations and all other product kits – resulting in reduced complexity , improved cost structure and faster time to market.
Renesas' winning combinations are engineering-approved designs that integrate embedded processing, analog, power and connectivity. They enable clients to leverage an elevated platform for their design ideas, accelerating product development cycles and reducing the overall risk of bringing designs to market.
Renesas now offers more than 400 winning combinations for a wide range of customers and markets.
“Renesas is committed to digital transformation and facilitating the customer design process,” said Chris Allexandre, senior vice president, CSMO and head of global sales and marketing at Renesas. “The ECAD tool migration is an important step in our journey and we look forward to continued collaboration and strengthening our partnership with Altium.”
Altium 365 is one of the leading cloud-based PCB design platforms. With Altium 365, users can collaborate with stakeholders and other participants while maintaining IP security and projects under revision control. Users can organize projects, libraries, and participants in one place while sharing links to projects for real-time collaboration. With the use of CAD-specific intelligence, data can be stored and accessed online.
Renesas will publish all ECAD libraries for its products in the Altium Public Vault. With features like manufacturer parts search in Altium365, customers can choose Renesas parts directly from the Altium library for faster time to market.
“This migration is fully aligned with Renesas' solution and digitalization strategy, which includes Quick-Connect platforms and other strategic initiatives,” said DK Singh, vice president of Renesas' systems and solutions team. “This harmonization of the development workflow will enable global internal collaboration and make it easier for customers to integrate Renesas products and solutions into their systems.”
Renesas will continue to fully support customers using ECAD design platforms other than Altium and provide ECAD libraries for other ECAD tools as needed by customers. We are strengthening our partnership with Altium, and this unification of the ECAD tool is the first chapter of our journey as we work on multiple initiatives to strengthen our “broader and deeper” go-to-market strategy.
“Renesas is a truly global leader in the semiconductor business, with one of the broadest product lines in the industry and a design presence that spans the globe,” said Marc Boonen, chief commercial officer at Altium. “We are proud that Renesas has chosen Altium 365 as its platform of choice and we look forward to working together to deliver high-quality integrated solutions faster and more cost-effectively than ever before.”
