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Renesas Electronics Introduces RX Functional Safety Solution with World’s First SIL3 Software Certification for Industrial Equipment

TOKYO, Japan ― Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced “RX Functional Safety”, a new solution for industrial applications that reduces the complexity of IEC 61508 SIL3 (Note 1) certification, an international standard for functional safety. Based on the RX family of microcontrollers (MCUs), the new solution provides advanced functional safety for industrial equipment, including functions for chip self-diagnostics, the world’s first (Note 2) SIL3-certified functional safety software and reference documents for users to develop the safety part of industrial applications. The complete functional safety support for industrial applications allows users to shorten the certification acquisition process by a year or more.

Featuring a dual-MCU configuration, RX Functional Safety will support all Renesas MCUs based on the RXv2 core to enable simple safety verification and a highly efficient diagnostics software. With the SIL3-certified software, the solution eliminates the need for users to develop functional safety software dependant to Renesas MCUs and allows them to focus on development of software for their own application components.

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