Arrow Electronics has announced the introduction of ARIS, a ready-to-use Internet of Things (IoT) hardware and software platform that enables users to get their IoT applications up and running quickly with the Renesas Synergy™ development framework. Arrow developed the ARIS board in conjunction with the Italian design house Reloc.
The Renesas Synergy™ Platform helps accelerate IoT designs by making it easier and quicker to start development with a fully qualified and optimized combination of hardware and software that encourages innovation and product differentiation. The combination of the Arrow ARIS board and Renesas Synergy™ software platform elements enables developers to reduce time to market and decrease the total cost of ownership of a product over its lifetime.
Based on a Renesas Synergy S7 MCU with 240MHz ARM Cortex-M4 core, the ARIS board has a host of features that equip it for IoT operations. A 3-axes accelerometer and 3-axes gyroscope deliver position and motion sensing information; humidity and temperature sensors provide environmental feedback. Communication with other devices and the Cloud is enabled via an Ethernet 10/100 port, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE 4.1/4.2) and Wi-Fi b/g/n support. NFC tag functionality is also included along with a crypto bootloader and support for over-the-air (OTA) firmware updates.
The Renesas Synergy™ Software platform includes an operating system, a variety of qualified stacks, libraries and consistent APIs that simplify and speed up the development process.
David Spragg, vice president semiconductor marketing and engineering, Arrow EMEA commented: “Product developers want to devote their resources to the elements of their application that differentiate them from their competitors. The combination of the Arrow ARIS board and Renesas Synergy™ Platform allows developers to get started quickly and concentrate on their own area of specialism rather than having to recreate the basic building blocks.”
