The focus of the Doctor Micro blog remains microcontrollers (MCUs), but today I'd again like to step away from a technology discussion and share a bit more with you about Renesas's employees and how they enabled an amazingly quick recovery from the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that hit Japan back in March. Renesas has provided an inside look into the recovery operation and even produced a video with first-hand accounts from…

While I typically focus on RX and RL78 microcontroller (MCU) topics in this Doctor Micro blog, I’m going to offer up a bit of coverage about the impact of the March earthquake and tsunami on Renesas and its employees, and the recovery process. It was the Naka factory in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki that suffered the greatest damage. Renesas initially expected that it would take six months to get the fab lines restarted. The employees…