Subatomic Particle Board Demonstration Platform

As the electronics market continues toward a commodity market, the cost associated with a design has shifted from hardware to software. With the reduction in cost of the hardware, more concern is being placed on the design and sustainability of the application. In many cases, the development time for the software component has exceeded 75 percent of the design cycle and, as such, the cost associated with the development of an application has rooted itself in software.

These trends have lead to the development of the Renesas Subatomic Particle Board (SPB) demonstration platform, a new concept that obsoletes the previous norm in evaluation kits. While giving engineers a much more pleasant and productive experience, it is likely to enhance fair and unbiased evaluations of hardware devices and tools and increase the value of the kit to users.

Find out more about the Renesas Subatomic Particle Boards

• Press Release 14 Apr 2008: Renesas Technology Introduces Industry’s First Interactive Software and Hardware Demonstration Platforms, the “Subatomic Particle Boards” for Microcontrollers
• Whitepaper: Analysis of the Innovative Subatomic Particle Demonstration Platform

Learn more about Renesas MPUs, MCUs and development tools

• Renesas Rulz: Online developer's forum
• Renesas Interactive: Online training

View the 6-part video presentation
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• Renesas Corporate Overview (13MB)
• Renesas Ecosystem Overview (10MB)
• Online Training at RenesasInteractive.com (11MB)
• Subatomic Particle Board hardware Overview (7MB)
• Introducing HEW, our software IDE (9MB)
• Subatomic Particle Board Activity Center Overview (20MB)