Renesas Electronics (Renesas) provides community product forum paces as a support service to its users and customers. The primary aim is to provide product and design support to the broad market as well as a space to exchange ideas, tips, information, and techniques related to select products from the Renesas Portfolio. Like any community, our forums are most valuable when everyone follows a basic code of conduct when engaging content and other community members. These guidelines and rules are presented here so that, as a valued member of our community, you know what is expected of you and what you can expect from other participants when using the The Renesas Engineering Community. By registering as a member of our community you agree to follow these guidelines, in addition to the Renesas Web Site Terms of Use which can be found at in the footer of any Renesas web property.
If you are new to the community and are unsure about how to use the features and functions of our support forums, just let us know. The community Administrator and the Technical Support Team responsible for answering your questions are clearly identified by their Avatars – just click on our name and send us a private message.
For everyone's benefit, please stay on topic when replying to threads. These forums are specifically provided to allow Renesas customers get help and to help each other. Please refrain from discussing personal matters, abusing any company or product, or, in general, from posting in a manner unrelated to the resolution of issues regarding products from Renesas. Please avoid using slang and colloquial terms as these can easily be misunderstood by our multi-regional and therefor cultural membership.
Everyone wants to have a positive experience while on the community and Renesas strive to create a productive environment for our members seeking support on a particular product or design question. We understand that individual communication styles may vary however, please make sure that you are not detracting from any other user's experience in your manner of conduct on our forums. Please refrain from posting anything unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, harassing, threatening, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable or injurious to third parties. Your opinions are always welcome, however please be aware that ANY personal attacks and harassment ("flaming") in either the forums or through private messaging is not acceptable and will not be tolerated.
This community is provided as a service to Renesas customers and is not intended for the promotion of third-party services, products, websites, or organizations. Please refrain from posting content that would constitute advertising, junk mail, spam, or any other form of unauthorized solicitation.
It is unacceptable to post any material (i) that would infringe on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other proprietary rights of any party, (ii) that contains software viruses or any other computer code or files that are designed to disrupt, damage, or limit the functioning of any software or hardware, or (iii) that is deemed to be illegal by any local, state, federal, or international law, rule or regulation.
The majority of community members are happy to contribute to the resolution of posted questions however, remember that their advice and expressed opinion is theirs alone and you are responsible for deciding whether or not to follow it. If the advice given by a community user sounds incorrect to you, do not try it. Renesas is not responsible for any negative outcome as a result of incorrect advice or opinion provided by a community user should you choose to act upon it. In addition, to protect your privacy, you should not post personal information on our forums including your home address, age, or phone number. Furthermore, should any community user ask you for personal information, such as an account number, address, password, or credit card number, do not provide it. Renesas will NEVER ask for your personal information publicly on our forums or share your data!
Renesas does not generally edit, censor or otherwise moderate forum content posted by our members without cause violating our policies. However, Renesas retains the right, at its sole discretion, to limit users' access to the community and to remove material that, in the sole judgment of Renesas or a designated moderator, does not comply with the current User Guidelines or with the Web Site Terms of Use, or that is harmful, objectionable, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate for publication on our forums. Renesas also retains the right to assign such moderating right to some users of the platform. Renesas is not responsible for any failure or delay in removing such material. Moderators may take any action they deem necessary in their own judgment to support the User Guidelines and Web Site Terms of Use, and, in general, that can detract from the experience of other users or the purpose of the support community. Such actions may include moderating, editing or deleting material and banning individual users.