components, firstly designers can integrate and differentiate their products by adding new features and functionality all in one compact device as small as 1.0 mm x 1.2 mm. The PCB footprint can be significantly shrunk, fewer components also mean reduced track routing complexity and higher reliability with fewer solder connections. Another advantage is the reduction in power consumption GreenPAK offers by powering fewer discrete devices and dynamically managing power within the device itself, this makes GreenPAK ideal for battery powered equipment where it is possible to extend battery life and achieve longer run time.
GreenPAK makes it much easier to adapt designs and add new features as they are needed during the design cycle or life cycle of the end product. This can often be achieved without changing the fundamental board layout allowing designers to quickly make new working prototypes in minutes. The GreenPAK ecosystem of hardware and software development tools makes it simple to exploit the power of silicon without engineering charges and long lead times, allowing designers to achieve a faster time to market. There is even a “cookbook” available which enables designers to see where a GreenPAK can be used within their projects. The cookbook outlines different techniques and provides completed applications to help designers start using GreenPAK in no time at all. Another important attribute of GreenPAK is that it allows greater protection of the circuit design and associated Intellectual Property (IP), because the circuit configuration is embedded within the IC and can be protected by disabling the read-back of the NVM, it is much more difficult for the design to be reverse engineered.
And finally, one extremely relevant topic currently is the constrained availability and long lead-times for some of the discrete devices commonly used in a circuit. GreenPAK can help alleviate these challenges by emulating and integrating those discrete component functions into one device, at the same time reducing the PCB component count helping to save further costs in purchasing and administration through greater BoM management efficiencies and reduced stock holding. The design flexibility, small device sizes and cost effectiveness of GreenPAK create a compelling solution for designers.
Development tools
Renesas has a comprehensive suite of hardware and software development tools available for GreenPAK. A standard development board is available where pre-soldered GreenPAK devices on a low-cost DIP adapter board can be installed allowing for quick circuit design development.
For more experienced users and as the design starts to move to the next stage, the GreenPAK advanced development board enables users to program blank surface mount devices via a socket adapter board, these programmed devices can then be soldered directly onto the end user’s PCB for quick prototypes and proof of concept designs.
design and pre-programming of the GreenPAK device, contact Anglia for more information on this service. Anglia’s engineering team can offer support to designers with their extensive experience of circuit design across a wide range of applications and functional blocks, they can offer advice and support at component and system level. This expertise is available to assist customers with all aspects of the product design and component selection, providing hands on support and access to additional comprehensive Renesas resources including technical application notes and reference designs.
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www.anglia-live.com to see the full range of Renesas products available from Anglia.
Both development boards connect to a PC via USB. The GreenPAK designer software development tool is used to configure the GreenPAK devices. It is free to download and uses a simple intuitive GUI that enable developers to start quickly creating designs.
A huge range of support material including product presentations, tutorial videos, application notes and the aforementioned cookbooks are also available which demonstrate some common functions to get developers up and running quickly.
Design support
Anglia offers support for customer designs with free evaluation kits, demonstration boards and samples of Renesas products via the EZYsample service which is available to all registered Anglia Live account customers. A full design service for larger volume projects is also offered by Renesas which can take care of the schematic
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