My taxes are filed and spring is in the air. As the late James Brown sang, “I feel good!” Now is a great time for me to to apply that new burst of energy into developing a new project with the Renesas Synergy e2 studio Integrated Solutio...

Graphics and analysis – It’s hard to get sexier than that in the app development world.  With the power duo of GUIX Studio and TraceX in the Renesas Synergy e2 studio Integrated Solution Development Environment (ISDE) and Synergy Pla...

Flash back a few decades to my dad taking me into the garage for the first time to see his vast collection of shiny tools. Drill. Bench vise. Soldering iron. I loved each and every one of those tools and greatly appreciated him showing me how to use ...

Professor_IoT has returned! I know you’ve been waiting with bated breath to learn about the Final Four (there’s that accidental – or was it? – March Madness reference again) attributes of the Renesas Synergy Software Package (...

  Think about the semiconductor biz and many things come to mind. Wafers, fabs and production equipment, obviously. Boards and kits, no doubt. Development, debugging and testing tools – sure as heck hope so. Fundamental or way cool innova...

I’m an “abstraction” thinker when it comes to development so kudos to Renesas for giving me the Synergy Software Package (SSP) with both the ability to do most of my coding above the API while also providing the flexibility for me t...

And now it’s time to introduce the star of our show… Ladies and gents, the Renesas Synergy Software Package! You can call it the SSP for short. SENSIBLE ME: Um, Prof, rein it in! You’re an IoT app developer, not a master of ceremon...

Monday was Leap Day so I can’t think of a better theme for those of you who have a clear Synergy Platform project in mind and are ready to leap forward with a Synergy solution that can fast-track your end product development (we Synergy Starter...

If you weren’t in Nuremberg, Germany last week, you missed a big Renesas Synergy Platform coming out party. Walking into the exhibit hall from any of the three entrances, you couldn’t miss the Renesas Synergy banners (those marketers sure...

This post is dedicated to all of you developers that have no bloody clue what product you are going to develop using the Synergy Platform  . . . yet.  We all start out in this place so don’t feel bad.  In fact, your situation is ...

As an applications developer, it’s hard to beat the experience of downloading and launching a new software release. It’s like Christmas (or Hanukah for my Jewish tribe members). But there’s one thing even more thrilling in the early...

Before we get into Synergy Platform documentation, I think it’s timely to reinforce the importance of documentation. It’s all about following the instructions, dude. Just follow them and you won’t have to apologize left and right fo...

If you’ve been reading my previous missives and gotten this far, I will assume you are now up-and-running with a development project on the Synergy Platform. Congratulations! This is the really fun part. Creating something new and useful! But, ...

So, thanks to Renesas Synergy Xplorer, you’re officially oriented and ready to roll. To speed your journey, I’d like to share my experience getting started with the Synergy Platform. Let me know how your experience compares to mine! ...

My parents taught me long ago that understanding the context I am operating in before diving into a new challenge would maximize my productivity (and reduce my stress). I call this context “the big picture.” So call me a stickler, but I l...

So now that you know who I am and what makes me tick, let me share some of my experience with Renesas and the Synergy Platform. What first excited me about the opportunity to work on the Synergy Platform with the Renesas IoT BU was the company’...

I work as a consultant to the IoT BU at Renesas and some people have referred to me as “The Professor” so feel free to call me Professor_IoT. During the past 20 years, I’ve worked for a variety of companies here in the heart of Sili...