Renesas 365, Powered by Altium, a first-of-its-kind industry solution introduced that accelerates electronics system development from silicon selection to system lifecycle management, has been introduced by Renesas Electronics and Altium. This game-changing solution is anticipated to be accessible in early 2026 and will be showcased at embedded world, Booth 5-371, March 11–13, in Nuremberg, Germany.
This introduction highlights the revolutionary potential of their combined knowledge and represents a significant moment after Renesas acquired Altium.
Based on the Altium 365 platform, Renesas 365, Powered by Altium, speeds up development and gives engineers the tools they need to create better, more intelligent products by removing inefficiencies, bringing teams together, facilitating solution discovery, and guaranteeing digital continuity.
Pioneering the Future of Electronics Systems Innovation
Renesas 365 will address persistent issues in the industry. Development of embedded systems frequently suffers from segregated teams, disjointed documentation, and laborious component searches.
Renesas 365 tackles these issues by integrating Renesas’ extensive embedded computation, analog & connectivity, and power portfolio with Altium’s cutting-edge cloud platform.
Workflows will be streamlined, time to market will be accelerated, digital traceability and real-time insights will be ensured, and decision-making from concept to deployment will be improved by combining hardware, software, and lifecycle data into a unified digital environment.
Five Integrated Pillars
Renesas 365 is built on five interconnected solution pillars, ensuring seamless system-level integration and continuous digital context throughout the product lifecycle:
- Silicon – Serving as the foundation for modern electronic solutions, Renesas 365 ensures that every silicon component is application-ready and optimized for software-defined products. Whether for ultra-low-power IoT devices or demanding AI-driven applications, Renesas 365 delivers silicon that seamlessly integrates with the broader system.
- Discover – Powered by Altium, Discover enables engineers to find not just components but complete solutions from Renesas’ comprehensive portfolio for faster and more accurate system design.
- Develop – Powered by Altium, Develop provides a multidisciplinary cloud-based development environment, ensuring real-time collaboration across hardware, software, and mechanical teams.
- Lifecycle – Powered by Altium, Lifecycle establishes persistent digital traceability, enabling seamless over-the-air (OTA) updates and ensuring compliance and security from concept to deployment.
- Software – Provides AI-ready development tools to ensure software-defined systems are optimized for modern applications.
Addressing the Next Generation of Electronics
By offering a unified software framework for software-defined systems with low- to high-compute performance, AI-ready development tools that facilitate real-time, low-power AI inference at the edge, and advanced security, compliance tracking, and automated OTA updates to ensure secure lifecycle management, Renesas 365 is geared toward the next generation of electronics innovation and in line with emerging industry trends.
Setting a New Industry Standard: Connecting Silicon to Systems
Beyond just a technical breakthrough, Renesas 365 is the next phase in the digital transformation of electronics, bridging the gap between system development and silicon. Renesas and Altium will revolutionize the design, development, and maintenance of electronics systems—from silicon selection to complete system realization—in a connected world by guaranteeing smooth cooperation, real-time decision-making, and persistent system context.
Experience the Power of Renesas 365 at embedded world
At embedded world, Renesas will bring Renesas 365 to life with a dynamic live demo, showcasing its power as a unified industry solution for modern electronics development. This seamless, cloud-connected platform enables engineers to move effortlessly from concept to prototype to fleet management.
Attendees will experience firsthand how Renesas 365 streamlines the design process, from silicon selection to embedded software development to Edge AI and over-the-air updates.
The platform’s seamless integration ensures that existing workflows remain uninterrupted, supporting everything from custom AI models to advanced RTOS implementations like PX5 RTOS, helping to bridge the software gap between MCU and MPU worlds.
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See Renesas 365 at embedded world 2025, March 11-13, in Nuremberg, Germany. Renesas and Altium will also feature additional product innovations at their respective booths.
Renesas 365: Booth 5-371 Dedicated to the Renesas 365 solution, Booth 5-371 will feature live Renesas 365 presentations and interactive demonstrations.
Renesas: Booth 1-234 Showcasing products across Renesas’ comprehensive portfolio of leading-edge semiconductor solutions with presentations, demos, and customer meetings.
Altium: Booth 4-305 Featuring its industry-leading solutions designed to support businesses of all sizes, all stakeholders, and all applications across the Altium ecosystem.
Leadership Comments
“The introduction of Renesas 365 is a major milestone toward Renesas’ Digitalization vision. We envision making electronics design accessible to 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.”
