On May 17, HWI presented an all-day training seminar on the latest Renesas
Flexible Software Package (FSP) technology. On-site participants included
engineers from various companies with offices in Colorado, such as
Medtronic and II-VI Incorporated. Engineers from overseas also attended
remotely.
This training session was the first since the COVID-19 pandemic put a
damper on travel and events. Prior to the pandemic, HWI team members
often traveled both domestically and internationally to train other engineers
in the use of various Renesas technologies, including the RZ microcontroller
family and the Synergy family. In fact, HWI has been recognized by the
electronics giant as a Renesas Certified Training Center. As Michael Halleck,
Vice President of Software Product Development, likes to say, “We train the
folks who train the folks who use the Renesas chips and software stacks.”
Dev Mandya and John Taft from Renesas presented brief talks on Renesas’
history, the background of the Renesas Advanced (RA) family of
microcontrollers, and the FSP software for use with the RA MCUs. Lucia Fox
from AKI GIBB and Sarah Carlock at HWI were invaluable in coordinating the
event. Michael Halleck, along with Firmware Engineers, Ali Elhouderi and
Huan Nguyen, led the FSP training.
Topics for the May 17 seminar included an introduction to FSP, creating an
FSP project, and running the project code on a Renesas RA6M2
microcontroller evaluation kit. For engineers who mostly work with bare-
metal applications, there was also an afternoon lab session introducing
Microsoft’s real-time operating system, Azure RTOS.
The HWI team is looking forward to providing more training and to helping more engineers develop and deliver products with excited technologies such
as RA and FSP – there are more training plans in development, and we are eager to share them with future attendees!
If you or your team would be interested in participating in future trainings,
please reach out to us with the contact form at the bottom of this page or
call us at 303-833-3223.