SuperH Core Licensing

Renesas Electronics took over the SuperH™ CPU core licensing business of SuperH, Inc. in October, 2004. SH-4 and SH-5 CPU core design kits, which were originally designed and developed by SuperH, Inc. are now available from Renesas Electronics.

Please refer to our press release for more details.

Features

• SH-4 and SH-5 CPU cores are available.
• SuperH™ CPU cores are available in both synthesizable and hard macro styles.
• SuperH™ CPU cores can be ported to Renesas and also to semiconductor foundry processes, such as TSMC and UMC.
• Compact SH4-500 group cores and SH4-400 group cores are available, as well as standard powerful SH4-200 group cores with FPU and MMU. Please refer to the superh.com SH-4 page for details on each CPU core group .
• SuperH CPU core design kits including sample scripts, documents and test environments. Please refer to design kit page for details.
  
  
  For more details, please contact us at: info-superh-core@renesas.com .

Product overview

Renesas is also a Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) licensing company, developing and delivering products in the following areas:

SuperH CPU cores:
A family of RISC CPU cores designed for multimedia System-on Chip (SoC) devices. The 32-bit SH-4 family and 64-bit SH-5 families are available today. The SH-4 CPU cores integrate a vector floating point unit enabling audio, speech and graphics applications to be ported. The SH-5 family uses its 64-bit datapaths to deliver multimedia processing capability via its SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) instructions. Each family includes a range of hard and soft core products. For more details go to CPU architecture

SuperHyway Bus™:
A VSIA/VCI compliant on chip interconnect infrastructure designed to give developers a scalable high bandwidth, low latency interconnect. A set of configuration tools are available for licensees to develop SuperHyway based designs. Interfaces to other standards such as AMBA and CoreConnect enable users to mix peripherals from different IP libraries. For more details go to SuperHyway

Development tools:
A set of development tools based around the open source GNU and Linux enabling licensees to develop application software for SuperH based SoC devices. Renesas packages these tools with its simulators in to the Architecture Evaluation Design Kit (AEDK) which includes all the software needed to write and debug software for the SuperH CPU core.

Renesas has an extensive 3rd party program and details can be found at Partner Program

Contacts

Licensing team

Email : info-superh-core@renesas.com