Renesas Electronics America and Express Logic announce RZ Express program to drive development of HMI apps

EE LIVE, SAN JOSE, USA: Renesas Electronics America, a leading supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, and Express Logic Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOSs), announced the new RZ Express program-an optimized package of high-performance microprocessors (MPUs), easy-to-use RTOS, and comprehensive middleware solutions ideal for high-resolution displays used in the design of human-machine interface (HMI) applications.

The RZ Express program offers embedded designers developing a commercial application with any Renesas RZ/A1 high-performance MPU the chance to obtain a valuable single-product license for Express Logic's ThreadX RTOS. This includes any Express Logic middleware components required to complete the application-NetX, USBX, FileX, and GUIX.

Additionally, free software support and maintenance is provided for 90 days. The RZ Express program brings together a powerful hardware platform and a leading commercial RTOS to help reduce design and execution risk by providing a proven path to high- performance user interfaces.

"Using the Express Logic RTOS and middleware, including GUIX, helps designers quickly and effectively build differentiated HMI solutions on top of the Renesas RZ/A1 hardware platform," said Ritesh Tyagi, VP of marketing for Renesas Electronics America. "The RZ/A1 MPUs have been optimized for HMI applications and, when used with GUIX and the Express Logic middleware, provide an optimal solution for high-resolution displays."

Renesas RZ/A series of MPUs combine a high-performance ARM® Cortex-A9 processor with up to an industry-leading 10MB of on-chip RAM to support faster device control, digital audio and video-signal processing, and much more. The large on-chip RAM removes the need for external SDRAM, enabling low-power, cost-effective embedded display applications at up to WXGA resolution. The RZ/A MPUs can also drive two displays and execute code in-place from cost-effective QSPI flash memory.