What is Lab on the Cloud (LotC)?

Lab on the Cloud is a remote test lab that users can access 24/7 to explore their proof of concept boards and drive system functionality. There are over 40 Renesas proof-of-concept boards available for engineers, from applications spanning motor control, electric vehicle systems, air quality monitoring, and even advanced face, object, and voice recognition. The Proof of Concept boards and advanced test instruments are connected directly through the cloud and can be monitored through live video streaming. Engineers can leverage an easy-to-use graphical user interface to remotely control boards and equipment from anywhere. Lab on the Cloud will boost the designer's confidence in Renesas' solutions for real-world applications.

Lab on the Cloud Quick Start Guide

Who can Access?

Lab on the Cloud is available for any myRenesas user to access. Save time and jump-start your design.

How to Access?

Select the Proof of Concept board you would like to explore, click Start Live Test, and start your interactive session with your selected solution.

Lab on the Cloud: Save time and jump start your design online

Renesas' Lab On The Cloud is a remote test lab that users can access 24/7 to explore their proof of concept boards and drive system functionality. The proof of concept boards and advanced test instruments are connected directly through the cloud and can be monitored through live video streaming. Engineers can leverage an easy-to-use graphical user interface to remotely control boards and equipment from anywhere. Save time and jump-start your design today.

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High Voltage Battery Management System

This is a battery management solution, for a 20 – 28 cell battery. It has a daisy chain feature, RS-485 to external PC and takes command line interface commands.

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GreenPAK Advanced Development Board

This solution highlights a versatile programmable NVM that integrates many functions into a single custom circuit reducing BOM and power consumption.

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Touchless Sensor Solution

This solution is suitable for home appliances and provides non-contact touch operation at various programmed distances using the RA2E1 32-bit MCU.

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High Voltage Synchronous Buck-Boost Controller

This solution uses the ISL81801 synchronous full bridge buck-boost for a wide range (9V – 80V) of input voltage and 100 – 600kHz switching frequencies.

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High Precision Analog Measurement

This solution shows the integrated analog front end (AFE) of the RX23E MCU and features low noise and low drift for a high precision sensor measurement.

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Mbed™ Based Image Processing Solution

This image processing solution utilizing the RZ/A2M MPU, featuring an Arm® Cortex®-A9 CPU designed for embedded artificial intelligence (e-AI) based imaging, shows very high-speed processing using Dynamically Reconfigurable Processor (DRP) technology.

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Mini Power Monitor - A Panel Meter Solution

This mini metering solution accurately measures power consumption, voltage, current, time, and CO2 emission values of electric appliances.

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Power Line Communication

This solution uses a small PLC modem module to control lighting on a DC power line to show very high speed (1Mbps) communication over a 1km distance.

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RZ/V2M SMARC: Object Detection Solution

AI-only Accelerator (DRP-AI), 4K-compatible Image Signal Processor (ISP), Vision-AI ASSP for real-time human and object recognition.

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Smart Asset Tracking Label

The smart asset tracking label is optimized with ultra-low power devices and several standby options for minimal current draw.

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Smart Rangefinder Solution

This wireless rangefinder measures the distance from an observer to a target and is optimized for handheld applications.

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HMI Solution Board with High-end 32-bit MCU RX Family

This reference design can be operated via voice command, perform audio playback, and has a GUI display with WQVGA (480x272) on RTOS simultaneously.

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48V Mobility Solution

A high-voltage powertrain system with modularly integrated wired/wireless charging, a battery management system and optional Bluetooth® wireless connectivity.

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RAJ306010 Prototyping Motor Control Board

This solution uses a motor control IC for a BLDC vacuum control motor running at 24V, shows efficiency improvement using a self-adaptive dead time feature.

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Multi-sensor Network Platform for ASI-5

This solution uses the RA2A1 32-bit MCU and shows Renesas’ unique ASi4U-v5 transceiver chip communicating via an ASi-5 bus with multiple sensors.

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RX13T Motor Control Solution

This BLDC motor control solution shows 24V FOC sensorless and smooth operation using the highly precise IPS2200 inductive position sensor.

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2D Barcode and Face Recognition Evaluation Kit

A camera solution using the RZ/A2M's high-speed image processing and DRP technology for detecting faces and barcodes, supports an on-board emulator for fast development.

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Precision Weight Scale

The RX23E MCU's 24-bit ADC precisely (0.1%) measures the weight in this low BOM count solution, which can be used in medical applications.

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Horizone: RA6M3 Evaluation Kit

This solution that consists of an RA6M3 MCU board with rich connectivity and multiple sensors allows data to be visualized through the Avnet IoTConnect platform's API.

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High Efficiency IoT Battery System

This cost-effective, wide application solution shows the ISL9122A ultra-low IQ buck-boost regulator, where the output voltage is adjustable using I2C.

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Industrial CAN Sensor Network

This solution shows the RA2L1 MCU's CAN capability using an isolated RS-485 transceiver to give connection, encryption and decryption between multiple boards and sensors.

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Capacitive Liquid Level Indicator

This reference design solution shows water level measurement using a capacitive touch electrode and the capacitive touch sensor unit feature of the RX130 MCU.

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Multi-Purpose Air Quality Sensor Solution

This is a multi-sensor solution demonstrating indoor air quality (ZMOD4410), outdoor air quality (ZMOD4510) or refrigerator air quality (ZMOD4450).

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FemtoClock®2 Evaluation Board

An automated system, remotely placed for users to evaluate phase noise performance of a specific clock configuration on a board using a phase noise analyzer.

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Surveillance Camera with CMOS Sensor

The solution demonstrates a CMOS image sensor (CIS) board with phase-detection autofocus (PDAF) and a high-performance image signal processing (ISP) board.

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IEEE 1588 Solution

IEEE 1588 solution that demonstrates the clock synchronization up to <50nSec between Master and Slave to reconstruct accurate synchronization signals for 5G networks.

Household Smoke Detector

This smoke detector solution using the RAA239101 low-power AFE IC with the RL78/G12 MCU includes peripherals and features for a photoelectric smoke detector system.

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Simplified Contactless Thermometer

The solution demonstrates a working IR thermometer using analog thermopile sensor functionality in the low power RL78/I1B MCU.

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80V Dual Synchronous Buck Controller Evaluation Board

This solution shows the transient, line and Load regulation capability of the ISL81802 80V, high voltage, dual synchronous buck controller.

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Supercapacitor Based Terminal Backup Power Supply

This reference design has a wide input voltage range which supports 4.5V to 40V with 1A to 20A output. It uses a supercapacitor as a backup power supply.

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Flexible MCU-based 6-Channel Power Sequencer

This reference design allows users to perform two functions, a power-up sequence and a power-down sequence, using the GUI targeted for their specific application.

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MPPT Based Solar Battery Charger

Solar battery charger with operating range of 8V to 40V, supporting 12V lead acid battery for output currents up to 7A.

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USB PD with Turbo Boost

This board supports USB Power Delivery (PD) Specification Rev. 3.0 and USB-Type C. The R9A02G011 USB PD controller performs authentication to accept USB Type-C.

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Buck- Boost Last Gasp Power Supply for Energy Meter

This design uses an ISL85403 synchronous buck or boost-buck controller in the buck-boost configuration to extract power from a supercapacitor (as low as 0.1V).

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Standard 4-20mA Loop - Industrial Receiver

This board uses a standard 4-20mA loop to transmit data over large distances in industrial environments. It is resistant to surrounding noise.

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Arduino Shield Sensor Board

This sensor board with an Arduino Shield™ interface is used on interface-equipped microcontroller reference boards and supports multiple sensors.

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Scalable HMI SMARC SoM with AI

This solution is a Linux-based AI development platform using the RZ/G2 MPU which is suitable for human machine interface (HMI), 3D animation or 4K UHD playback.

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Digital Illuminometer

This solution is composed of a 32-bit RA2A1 MCU, an integrated light sensor (ISL29035) and OLED display. It can be used to measure Light Lux levels.

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VersaClock® Programmable Clocks

This is an automated system to configure and evaluate the phase noise performance of the VersaClock® 7 family and generate preliminary addendum and orderable part number.

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Gas Flow Sensor Solution

This enables quick prototyping of the FS2012 mass air flow sensor module, where users can control the flow rate and capture the reading and linearity of sensor data.

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Codeless Solution for DA14531MOD

This solution is the most ideal way to quickly and easily get started developing applications and products using the DA14531 Bluetooth® Low Energy SoC.

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Ultra-Low Power Wi-Fi Module

This solution provides Command Line Interface (CLI) to control the DA16200's Wi-Fi performance. The Wi-Fi IoT Power Profiler Tool makes the current measurement easy and visual.

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3D Gesture Control

This solution demonstrates multiple capacitive proximity sensors used to detect hand gestures using a robotic arm. Up, Down, Right, Left, and Tap gestures can be tried by users.

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Voice Recognition Solutions

This reference design recognizes voice commands to initiate a corresponding operation. It uses a high-performance Arm® Cortex®-M4 core-based RA6M1 MCU.

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DALI-2 Lighting System Solution

In this solution, multiple slaves are controlled by a single master using DALI protocol over AWS. Users are guided step-by-step to set up communication through their AWS account.

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AMR Retrofit Module

This solution easily attaches the sensor board to any type of mechanical water meter with metalized index wheel and detects with it, both RPM as well as the rotation direction.

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RX Family DSP Solution

The RX family is suitable for applications requiring digital signal processing. This solution performs analog signal input, IIR filter, FFT, and HMI processing with a single microcontroller.

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HVPAK™ DC/Stepper Motor and LED Control Solution

The HVPAK SLG47105 Demo Board has been developed for testing designs based on SLG47105 with built-in DCM, Stepper Motor and LED.

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AC Servo Solution

This solution is a reference kit that enables easy initial evaluation and advanced development of motor control systems with high voltage 220V AC servo motor.

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Odor Detector

Implementation of this solution shows how the combination of a gas, temperature and humidity sensor solves the issue of odor detection, using an Android mobile app to provide notification.

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Absolute Inductive Position Sensor

This solution demonstrates a rotary encoder where users can measure the accuracy, Sine/Cosine, of a motor by controlling the speed and direction of the motor.

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Gigabit Industrial Ethernet SoM

This RZ/N2L, 2 Gigabit Ethernet PHY implementation can be seen through pings and LED blinking which show the transmission and Gigabit Ethernet connection.

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RZ/V2L Vision AI Platform

The SMARC 2.1 compliant SOM solution shows AI-enabled traffic analysis. It is an RZ/V-compatible platform for computer vision-based Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)  sensors and solutions.

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Smart Lock Solution

This smart door lock solution uses AWS IoT to operate a door and monitor the door’s status, such as opened or closed. Users can control these operations using a mobile app.

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Single Phase Energy Meter

With this lab, users can set various AC input and load conditions to measure error percentage with the Smart DLMS-based 1-phase energy meter solution, where communication with a meter through DLMS can also be observed.

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Featured Labs

AC Servo Solution
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Easily evaluate and develop motor control systems with this high-speed, high-precision, 220V AC Servo Motor solution.

HVPAK™ DC/Stepper Motor and LED Control Solution
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Test designs with a small, low power, HVPAK device, used for Mixed Signal & H-Bridge functionality, to drive a DC Motor, Stepper Motor, & LED.

RX Family DSP Solution
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Leverage a single microcontroller for analog signal input, IIR filtering, FFT, and HMI processing, ideal for any IoT application, and see the analysis results in real-time.

AMR Retrofit Module
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Retrofit any type of mechanical water meter with this AMR solution that detects RPM and rotation direction of the meter. Users can set phase difference & see signal waveforms.

VersaClock® Programmable Clocks
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Discover how easy it is to configure & evaluate the phase noise performance of the VersaClock® 7 family

DALI-2 Lighting System Solution
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Leverage AWS Web to connect & control groups of lights via the Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI) protocol