Renesas joins the Multicore Association as board member

The Multicore Association, a global non-profit organisation focused on developing standards that help speed time to market for products that involve multicore implementations, has announced that Renesas Electronics Corporation has joined the consortium as an executive board member.

“Renesas involvement with the Multicore Association, especially focused on our new Software-Hardware Interface for Multi-Many Core (SHIM) standard, will provide very well-rounded guidance and a practical perspective on designing with multicore technology.

“Renesas strongly supports the MCA and its mission to guide the long-term development of open standards for multicore solutions,” said Dr Fumio Arakawa, Chief Professional, CPU Development Department, Core Technology Business Division, 1st Solution Business Unit of Renesas Electronics Corporation.

“Our history is marked by a commitment to innovation that’s truly useful for customers, as well as dedication to open standards and a broad ecosystem that furthers industry-wide collaboration. Our work with MCA supports that commitment. As we advance the technology within our products based on multicore and manycore architectures, it will become critical for our development tool partners to have a standardised interface to the hardware - this in turn will benefit our customers and support quicker time to market.”

The Multicore Association is working to enable the widespread adoption of multicore processor-based implementations by setting standards for how systems will be utilised and programmed. As a semiconductor design innovator, Renesas will help the Multicore Association drive standards for deploying multicore solutions in high-performance embedded systems. The Multicore Association provides three levels of membership, with executive board, working group and university members. The executive board helps determine the overall direction of the organisation. Working group members are eligible to work on any of the working groups. University members may participate in any of the Multicore Association’s ongoing development work.