Explore Renesas Software Solutions
Renesas software packages are tailored to specific product families, providing engineers with the essential components to begin development. Whether you're working with microcontrollers, processors, or specialized boards, each package delivers the right mix of drivers, middleware, and documentation aligned to your chosen device. This product-focused approach ensures compatibility, simplifies integration, and enables faster prototyping and deployment.
RA Arm Cortex-M MCUs
Enhanced RA Family software offers scalable, high-quality tools for embedded systems, streamlining development with flexibility and ease of use.
RZ 32 & 64-bit MPUs
Linux and RTOS-based tools tailored for high-performance RZ processors in AI, HMI, and industrial control applications.
RX 32-Bit Performance/Efficiency MCUs
Comprehensive software suite for RX MCUs including FreeRTOS, cloud connectivity, and motor control support.
Wireless Connectivity
Renesas offers mature, low-power Bluetooth and Wi-Fi software stacks with dev kits and mobile apps enabling seamless, secure integration into smart IoT devices.
Clocks & Timing
Includes PTP Clock Manager and RICBox tools for precise timing, synchronization, and clock configuration in embedded systems.
GreenPAK Programmable Mixed-Signal
Configurable ICs that reduce component count, board space, and power use—ideal for fast, flexible mixed-signal circuit design.
Software Partners & Support
A curated ecosystem of trusted software partners and support delivering commercial-grade building blocks that work out-of-the-box with Renesas products, accelerating secure, scalable, and standards-compliant development across IoT, industrial, and automotive domains.
Renesas Ready Partner Network
The Renesas Ready Partner Network is an extensive and curated network of trusted technology partners that deliver commercial-grade building blocks that work out of the box with Renesas Products.
R-Car Consortium
The R-Car Consortium (RCC) is a membership-based organization that pursues and creates optimal solutions through collaboration with various partners centered on R-Car.
Renesas GitHub
Access Renesas software and comprehensive documentation on GitHub to streamline your design process, accelerate development, and ensure seamless integration across your projects.
Software List
| Title | Name | Description | Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3D Surround View With and Without GPU | Software Package | GPU version (R-Car H3 / M3) • 4x 2MP @ 30fps input • 4k @ 60fps output • Cogent color harmonization • Dynamic 3D bowl, dynamic blend zones • Transparent car (Historical view) • Detection features IMR version (R-Car V3H / V3M) • 4x 2MP 30fps input | Cogent Embedded Inc. |
| AI Accelerator: DRP-AI | Software Package | DRP-AI is Renesas' dedicated hardware that provides high performance and low power consumption, and the ability to respond to the rapid evolution of AI. | Renesas |
| Automotive BMS Application Model & Software | Software Package | BMS application models and software reduce the effort and time required to develop applications to estimate State Of Charge and State Of Health. | Renesas |
| Automotive SoC Consulting Service | Software Package | R-Car Online Consultation is a service where you can receive various consultations regarding R-Car V3H and R-Car V3M. We propose various solutions according to the customer’s situation, such as consultation for customers who are considering R-Car for the first time, learning of image recognition and deep learning using R-Car, and construction of evaluation environment. With this development consulting service for automotive SoC, we will shorten the introduction time of customers and solve problems at an early stage. | Hitachi Industry & Control Solutions, Ltd. |
| Automotive Sound Recognition (SWS) | Sound / Voice | The Reality AI solution uniquely combines both hardware and software to give passengers a new level of protection. | Renesas |
| Bluetooth® Low Energy Protocol Stack for RL78 Family | Protocol Stack | Bluetooth v4.2 certified protocol stack (Target device: RL78/G1D) | Renesas |
| Bluetooth® Low Energy Protocol Stack for RX family | Protocol Stack | Bluetooth v5.0 certified protocol stack [Target device: RX23W] | Renesas |
| Crypto Library | Security / Crypto | Robust encode library to ensure security for all types of system developments | Renesas |
| Custom Board Support Package Creator | Software Package | Command-line tool within e2 studio for creating custom board support packages (BSPs) that ensure proper boot up and application initialization. | Renesas |
| Data Flash Driver | On-chip Flash Memory | Block type Device Drivers for data flash embedded microcontrollers | Renesas |
| DRP Library for RZ/A2M FreeRTOS™ Software Package | Software Package | Software package for the RZ/A2M | Renesas |
| DRP-AI Extension Pack (Pruning Tool) | Imaging | The DRP-AI Extension Pack provides a pruning function optimized for RZ/V2H and RZ/V2N, which can be used in combination with the training code written with the use of PyTorch or TensorFlow. | Renesas |
| DSP Library for RX Family | DSP / FFT | Software library that implements numeric operation function used in DSP with general purpose MCU | Renesas |
| e² studio for Renesas Synergy™ | Software Package | The e² studio ISDE is specifically designed for the Synergy Platform and offers tools for three phases of the software design process: preparation phase, build phase and debug phase. | Renesas |
| FAT File System | File System | FAT file system, Original file system | Renesas |
| FAT File System [M3S-TFAT-Tiny] for the RL78 Family | File System | FAT file system for RL78 Family | Renesas |
| FAT File System [M3S-TFAT-Tiny] for the RX Family | File System | FAT file system for RX Family | Renesas |
| FAT file system software library middleware for the RZ/A Series | File System | PC compatible FAT file system software library for RZ/A series | Renesas |
| FFT Library for RL78 Family | DSP / FFT | Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) Library | Renesas |
| Firmware Update module | Security / Crypto | By using the firmware update module, users can easily incorporate firmware update functionality and secure boot functionality into their applications. | Renesas |
| Flash Access Driver (FAD) | On-chip Flash Memory | The Flash Access Driver (FAD) provides simple operation as an API (FAD function) to handle flash memory operations by calling the FAD functions within the application. | Renesas |
| Go Configure Software Hub | Software Package | Go Configure Software Hub provides development support for a variety of products, including GreenPAK configurable mixed signal matrix and ForgeFPGA™ devices. | Renesas |
| GreenPAK Designer (Legacy) | Software Package | GreenPAK Designer development software enables a completely graphical design process, requiring no programming language or compiler allowing a designer to configure, program, and test custom GreenPAK samples in minutes. | Renesas |
| HI1000/4 Real-time OS for H8SX, H8S Family | ITRON OS | μITRON4.0 Specification real-time OS for H8SX, H8S Family [Required IDE :High-performance Embedded Workshop] | Renesas |
| HI7000/4 Real-time OS for SuperH Family | ITRON OS | μITRON4.0 Specification real-time OS for SH-1,SH-2,SH2-DSP,SH-2A,SH2A-FPU [Required IDE :High-performance Embedded Workshop] | Renesas |
| Hypervisor Xen BSP (elinux.org) | Software Package | This link goes to the Xen BSP page for R-Car S4 Starter Kit on eLinux wiki. It explains how to build the Xen BSP included in the R-Car S4 SDK. | Renesas |
| I²C Serial EEPROM Driver | Serial Memory | Device Drivers for I²C Bus Serial EEPROM R1EX24xxx Series, R1EV24xxx Series and HN58X24xxx Series | Renesas |
| IAR Embedded Workbench® for Renesas Synergy™ | Software Package | Develop with an advanced configuration and analysis development environment that includes power debug capabilities and a highly optimizing compiler. | Renesas |
| ICUMX Loader and Flash Writer Package for R-Car S4 Starter Kit | Software Package | This is the ICUMX Loader and Flash Writer Package for the R-Car S4 Starter Kit. | Renesas |
| INTEGRITY® RTOS | Software Package | The INTEGRITY® RTOS is built around a partitioning architecture to provide embedded systems with total reliability, absolute security, and maximum real-time performance. | Green Hills Software LLC |
| ISP Solutions for R-Car V3H & R-Car V3M | Software Package | R-Car V3x ISP solutions, ISP Pipeline • Raw data correction • Lens correction • Noise reduction • Demosaic • Exposure control • White balance • Color correction • Color space conversion: RGB or YUV output PC Tuning Tools • Real-time Tuning • Off-line Tuning | Cogent Embedded Inc. |
| JPEG Encode/Decode Software Library for RX Family | Imaging | JPEG Encode/Decode Software Library that comprises the JPEG Decoder and the JPEG Encoder | Renesas |
| M3S-DATFA | On-chip Flash Memory | Data flash driver (standard version) for R8C/2x, R8C/1x, and M16C/Tiny Series (only for data flash embedded microcontrollers) | Renesas |
| M3S-DATFB | On-chip Flash Memory | Data flash driver (small version) for R8C/2x, R8C/1x, and M16C/Tiny Series (only for data flash embedded microcontrollers) | Renesas |
| M3S-DATFRX | On-chip Flash Memory | Data Flash Driver for RX Family | Renesas |
| M3T-MR100/4 Real-time OS for R32C/100 Series | ITRON OS | μITRON4.0 Specification real-time OS for R32C/100シリーズ [Required IDE :High-performance Embedded Workshop] | Renesas |
| M3T-MR30/4 Real-time OS for M16C Series and R8C Family | ITRON OS | μITRON4.0 Specification real-time OS for M32C/80, M16C/80 Series [Required IDE :High-performance Embedded Workshop] | Renesas |
| MultiMediaCard / eMMC Driver for RX Family | eMMC | Device driver for controlling MultimediaCard using MultimediaCard Interface (MMCIF) built-in the MCU | Renesas |
| OpenCV Accelerator | Imaging | OpenCV Accelerator utilizes Renesas unique hardware DRP suitable for image processing as an image processing accelerator and improves user system performance by accelerating OpenCV image processing. | Renesas |
| PTP Clock Manager for Linux | Software Package | Supports IEEE 1588 and Synchronous Ethernet communication requirements. PTP Clock Manager features a clock servo and Packet Delay Variation (PDV) filter to meet the needs for G.8275.1 and G.8275.2 standards from the ITU-T. | Renesas |
| QNX's ASIL Real Time Operating System | Software Package | Blackberry provides ASIL compliant RTOS and BSP stack optimized for Renesas R-Car V3H & R-Car V3M. | QNX |
| R-Car Gen4 Flash Writer for Winbond Octal NOR Flash | Software Package | The Flash writer transfers some of binary images from Host PC via SCIF of R-Car Gen4 and writes the binary images to external flash memory. By applying the patch file to the Flash writer, it will be able to write to Winbond Octal NOR Flash (Part numbers: W35T02NW, W35T01NW, W35T51NW, W35T25NW). | Winbond Electronics Corp. Japan |
| R-Car Hardware using OpenCL and SYCL | Software Package | Codeplay's Solution for Renesas R-Car developers. ComputeSuite for R-Car™ enables developers to accelerate applications on R-Car hardware using OpenCL and SYCL. | Codeplay Software |
| R-Car S4 SDK for gateway | Software Package | R-Car S4 SDK is SW platform based on Linux and also common for R-Car S4 Spider board. Please download R-Car S4 SDK from R-Car S4 product page which this link guides to move to. NDA will be displayed before download of R-Car S4 SDK and acceptance of it is required for download. | Renesas |
| RA Flexible Software Package (FSP) | Software Package | FSP is an enhanced software package designed to provide easy-to-use, scalable, high-quality software for embedded system designs using Renesas RA Family of Arm Microcontrollers. Note: FSP with e² studio Installer (Platform Installer) will install the e² studio tool, FSP packs, GCC toolchain, and Segger J-Link drivers required to use this software. No additional installations are required. | Renesas |
| Renesas Bluetooth® Low Energy Mobile Application Suite | Software Package | Renesas’ comprehensive collection of Bluetooth® Low Energy mobile applications: SmartBond, SmartConfig, SmartConsole, SmartTags, and SUOTA | Renesas |
| Renesas Graphics Library (RGL) | Imaging | RGL is a library for graphics related functions of RH850/D1M. | Renesas |
| Renesas IC Toolbox (RICBox) | Software Package | The Renesas IC Toolbox (RICBox) software platform enables customers to configure Renesas devices on evaluation kits when attached to the computer running the software. | Renesas |
| Renesas MCAL | Software Package | Renesas' MCAL (Microcontroller Abstraction Layer) software drivers can be obtained as a stand-alone software package. | Renesas |
| Renesas Peripheral Driver Library | Software Package | Unified API library for controlling peripheral I/O modules on Renesas MCUs. For OS-less development. Target devices : RX220, RX610, RX62G, RX62N, RX621, RX62T, RX630, RX63T etc. (This software is bundled with the Renesas Starter Kits and Peripheral Driver Generator for the above devices.) | Renesas |