Düsseldorf, November 20, 2015 — Renesas Electronics Europe, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, and TMG TE, one of the leading service providers in industrial communication technology, today announced the PROFIBUS slave stack availability for the R-IN Family. Renesas Electronics Europe and TMG TE have expanded their partnership to provide system solutions for Renesas’ R-IN32M3 Series of industrial Ethernet communication application specific standard product (ASSP) and RZ/T1 Group of microprocessors (MPUs). In addition to the extensive set of industrial Ethernet Protocols, an optimized PROFIBUS slave implementation is now available.
PROFIBUS is a fieldbus communication standard in industrial automation. Developed in the 1980s in Germany, PROFIBUS has become established as a leading technology. There are currently over 50 million installed PROFIBUS devices in the process and manufacturing industries all over the world, a number that shows the importance of the PROFIBUS market today.
“Although industrial Ethernet technologies have the highest growth rates within industrial automation, PROFIBUS continues to grow, adding 3.5 million new nodes worldwide in 2014 alone,” said Niels Trapp, Senior Director Segment Solutions at the Industrial Communications Business Group with Renesas Electronics Europe. “This shows a significant customer demand that we are addressing together with our partner TMG TE. Our goal is to support our customers by offering rich software functionality and added-value services right out of the box, which reduces our customers’ prototype development time.”
“Our cooperation with Renesas resulted in delivering leading industrial network technology to industrial automation businesses world-wide,” says Klaus-Peter Willems, Managing Director at TMG TE.
Renesas’ R-IN Engine is an integrated processor subsystem that includes both Ethernet and RTOS hardware accelerators. It was specifically developed for industrial applications, where high speed and real-time communication as well as low power consumption are some of the highest priorities. The R-IN Engine is featured in the R-IN32M3 Series as well as the RZ/T1 Group.
The R-IN Engine runs PROFIBUS slave on an ARM ® Cortex ®-M3 processor with enough headroom to run additional applications. The integrated real time OS (HW-RTOS) dramatically reduces the burden of the CPU and improves the interrupt response time with minimal jitter. The combination of the CPU and the HW-RTOS results in ultra-high-speed real-time responsiveness five to ten times that of a conventional software real-time OS.
The R-IN Engine already supports a variety of industrial Ethernet communication standards, such as EtherCAT®, CC-Link IE®, EtherNet/IP®, PROFINET® and Modbus®.
About TMG Technologie und Engineering GmbH
TMG TE is one of the leading service providers in industrial communication technology and focused to PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, PROFIBUS and IO-Link as well as TCI, FDT and EDD. TMG TE is member of PROFIBUS International, ODVA and the IO-Link community and is accredited as competence centre for PROFINET, PROFIBUS and IO-Link. TMG TE possesses own basic technology and has already realized various master and device integrations based on own or partners' technology. Further information can be found at http://www.tmgte.de / [email protected]
About Renesas Electronics Europe
Renesas delivers trusted embedded design innovation with complete semiconductor solutions that enable billions of connected, intelligent devices to enhance the way people work and live – securely and safely. As the number one global supplier of microcontrollers, and a leader in A&P and SoC products, Renesas provides the expertise, quality, and comprehensive solutions for a broad range of Automotive, Industrial, Home Electronics (HE), Office Automation (OA) and Information Communication Technology (ICT) applications to help shape a limitless future.
Renesas Electronics Corporation was established in 2010 and is headquartered in Japan.With over 800 hardware and software alliance partners worldwide, it has the industry’s largest local support network. Renesas Electronics’ European structure is comprised of three business units – the Automotive, the Broad-based and the Industrial Solution Business Unit.
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Remarks
ARM ® Cortex ® is a registered trademark of ARM Limited. EtherCAT® is a registered trademark and patented technology, licensed by Beckhoff Automation GmbH, Germany. CC-Link IE® is a registered trademark of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, EtherNet/IP® is a trademark of ControlNet International under license by ODVA, PROFINET® is a registered trademark of PROFIBUS and PROFINET International (PI) and Modbus® is a registered trademark of Schneider Automation Inc. All other registered trademarks or trademarks are the property of their respective owners
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