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Renesas Electronics Showcases Industrial IoT Innovation for Connected Factories at IMTS 2018
Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced
semiconductor solutions, will showcase its embedded innovation for the connected
factory and Industrial IoT (IIoT) environments at the 2018 International
Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS), which takes place September
10-15 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois.
During IMTS, Renesas will demonstrate several high-performance connected
solutions featuring its RZ/N1
group of microprocessors (MPUs) and ICs
for EtherCAT®, highlighting ways to
increase efficiency, automation and security in industrial networking
environments.
Technology Demonstrations
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Renesas RZ/N1 Time Sensitive Networking (TSN)
TSN
is the next-generation IEEE (News - Alert) 802.1 deterministic Ethernet standard for
the IIoT that will unify the various fieldbuses into a single network
infrastructure. This TSN demonstration highlights the RZ/N1 MPU as a
TSN endpoint with time-synchronized communication that bridges the IT
and OT domains and acts as a "gateway" that supports the TSN features
of robustness, redundancy, and real-time operation required in the
manufacturing (OT) domain, yet is compatible with IT bandwidth
requirements.
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Network Security for Endpoints
Ethernet
and IP protocols provide visibility to the outside world, enabling
remote monitoring and time-based analytics, and iproving overall
efficiencies for connected factories, while also creating new security
challenges. One solution: Design in security at the endpoint and
network devices - typically resource-constrained embedded devices -
rather than adding layers of IT-level network security. Renesas will
demonstrate the design-in approach leveraging the RZ/N1 MPU with a
network security framework that integrates an industrial-grade
firewall and TLS, together with intrusion detection components to
detect, report, and act on anomalous network traffic.
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Distributed Motion with Renesas EC-1 EtherCAT
ASSP
One of the leading Industrial Ethernet protocols
for automation applications, EtherCAT requires data cycle times as low
as = 100 µs, and low communication jitter. This demo highlights the
high-performance capabilities of EtherCAT, with a distributed EtherCAT
network and Renesas EtherCAT slave devices driving motors/discs
spinning in tight synchronicity, while exploring the cost benefits of
combining the EtherCAT slave controller and a real-time processor.
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Real-time Industrial IoT Gateway (News - Alert)
Typical
IIoT systems use IT-based gateways, which aggregate data from multiple
systems and provide a cloud interface for trend analytics or remote
monitoring but lack the granularity of real-time network data in the
OT domain. The Renesas RZ/N1 enables an exchange of data between the
two domains, partitioning between leading industrial networks for
control, such as EtherCAT, Profinet, Ethernet/IP or even OPC UA, and
cloud/on-premise platforms for deeper analytics. At IMTS, Renesas will
highlight the RZ/N1 to demonstrate a secure, real-time, end-to-end
gateway solution communicating as an OPC UA server that can be
connected to any OPC UA client or to a cloud interface, extending the
IT definition of the "edge" of the network down to the real-time
domain of the machine itself.
For more information about Renesas, follow Renesas Electronics America
at @RenesasAmerica on Twitter (News - Alert) and https://www.facebook.com/RenesasElectronics.
About Renesas Electronics Corporation
Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:
6723) delivers trusted embedded design innovation with complete
semiconductor solutions that enable billions of connected, intelligent
devices to enhance the way people work and live-securely and safely. A global
leader in microcontrollers, analog, power and SoC products and
integrated platforms, Renesas provides the expertise, quality, and
comprehensive solutions for a broad range of Automotive, Industrial,
Home Electronics, Office Automation and Information Communication
Technology applications to help shape a limitless future. Learn more at renesas.com.
(Remarks) EtherCAT is a registered trademark and patented technology
licensed from Beckhoff Automation GmbH of Germany. All other registered
trademarks or trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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