November 14, 2019, Shenzhen, China – Renesas Electronics Corporation, the world’s leading supplier of semiconductor solutions, today announced that it is based on Renesas’ unique SOTB (Silicon on Thin Buried Oxide) process technology. The Energy Harvesting Embedded Microcontroller (MCU) RE won the 2019 MCU Product of the Year Award by Aspencore, a well-known media group in the global electronics technology field. This award has received more than 100 candidate products from well-known semiconductor suppliers in the industry. Through the evaluation of Aspencore editors, more than 10 products were selected as finalists, and finally RE stood out and won the product award.

Renesas’ energy-harvesting chip RE uses the revolutionary SOTB process technology, which enables users to achieve low operating and standby currents at the same time, as well as high-speed operation at low voltages. The 32-bit CPU core of the RE01, the first product group of the RE family officially released by Renesas on October 31, enables users to power devices that require only trace amounts of energy in ambient energy fields such as light, vibration, or liquid flow , so as to realize the intelligent function. SOTB embedded controllers are used in biomonitor or outdoor environmental sensing applications to remove noise from signal data, enabling applications to perform high-precision sensing and data judgment. Because it eliminates the need for battery maintenance in a large number of applications, it provides direct help for the realization of the Internet of Everything in real life. To learn more about Renesas’ SOTB-based RE product family, please visit here.

Tomomitsu Moka, Senior Vice President of Renesas Electronics Corporation and Chairman of Renesas Electronics China, said, “We are very proud that RE has won the MCU Product of the Year Award. The ultra-low power function based on the SOTB process technology is very suitable for For IoT. RE will contribute to the development of various IoT-oriented applications through ambient energy generation and the combination of sensors and wireless devices.”

The Worldwide Electronics Achievement Award (WEAA) recognizes companies and individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the innovation and development of the global electronics industry. For more information on WEAA, please visit here.

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