The industry-first solution simplifies electronics system development by integrating hardware, software, and lifecycle management into a unified platform.
Renesas Electronics Corporation and Altium have introduced Renesas 365, Powered by Altium, an industry-first solution designed to streamline electronics system development from silicon selection to lifecycle management.
Following Renesas’ acquisition of Altium, Renesas 365 combines Renesas’ semiconductor expertise with Altium’s cloud-based design platform. Built on Altium 365, it eliminates inefficiencies, connects teams, and ensures digital continuity—accelerating development and enabling smarter product design.
Electronics development often involves manual component searches, fragmented documentation, and disconnected teams. Renesas 365 addresses these issues by integrating Renesas’ embedded compute, analog, connectivity, and power portfolio with Altium’s cloud-based design environment. The result is a unified platform that streamlines hardware, software, and lifecycle management while enabling real-time collaboration and traceability, accelerating time to market, and improving decision-making from concept to deployment.
Renesas 365 is built on five interconnected pillars, ensuring seamless system-level integration throughout the product lifecycle:
- Silicon – Optimized for modern applications, from low-power IoT devices to AI-driven systems.
- Discover – Enables engineers to find complete solutions from Renesas’ portfolio for faster system design.
- Develop – A cloud-based environment supporting real-time collaboration across hardware, software, and mechanical teams.
- Lifecycle – Ensures persistent digital traceability, OTA updates, compliance, and security.
- Software – Provides AI-ready development tools for software-defined systems.
Renesas 365 is designed to meet future industry needs by providing a unified software framework that supports a wide range of compute performance, from low-power devices to high-performance systems, along with AI-ready tools for real-time, low-power AI inference at the edge. It also ensures advanced security, compliance tracking, and automated over-the-air (OTA) updates for seamless and secure lifecycle management.
“The introduction of Renesas 365 is a major milestone toward Renesas’ Digitalization vision. We envision making electronics design accessible to the 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’ expertise in embedded semiconductor solutions and Altium’s leadership in electronics design and collaboration will enable a first-of-its-kind solution. Renesas 365 transforms how intelligent, connected electronic systems are designed, developed, and sustained.”
