YH8SPB Renesas Electronics America, YH8SPB Datasheet - Page 3

• Manufacturer Part Number: YH8SPB
• Description: DEMO PLATFORM H8/300H 10MHZ
• Manufacturer: Renesas Electronics America
• Series: H8®r
• Type: MCUr

Specifications of YH8SPB

• Contents: Demo Board
• For Use With/related Products: R8C/Tiny
• Lead Free Status / RoHS Status: Contains lead / RoHS non-compliant

1. Introduction
As the electronics market continues toward a commodity market, the cost associated with a
design has shifted from hardware to software. With the reduction in cost of the hardware, more
concern is being placed on the design and sustainability of the application. In many cases, the
development time for the software component has exceeded 75 percent of the design cycle and, as
such, the cost associated with the development of an application has rooted itself in software.
Knowing this, it’s no wonder that most engineers consider the selection of development tools and
the access to pre-developed code, such as drivers, middleware and sample projects, as a primary
decision factor when selecting a processor vendor. Therefore, after suitable microcontrollers
(MCUs) or microprocessors (MPUs) have been identified, the focus of attention shifts to the
software tools, drivers, sample code, etc., all of which must be evaluated before the best device
for the system can be selected. A project’s success truly depends not only on the quality of the
code produced for the embedded design, but also on the quality and usability of the software tools
used by the engineers who develop that code.
To engineers, having access to information about the latest tools and software is obviously critical
in making their embedded project successful. Historically, to do this, hardware companies sent an
engineer to the customer’s site to discuss and demonstrate the capabilities of devices and support
products — a manpower intensive solution that has to be scheduled in advance, but works well.
Now, there is an alterative method to enable engineers to get a great, self-guided interactive
demo/tutorial, conveniently, whenever it was best for them to do so.
Analysis of the evaluation kits available on the market revealed that most of the development
forethought had been placed on the hardware. If a user’s guide was provided, it was either too
simplistic or contained errors — or, worse, both. Moreover, a range of concerns were noted, any
of which could result in a frustrated engineer and poor rating for the device being evaluated. In
some cases, the experience was so bad that the kit was likely to be discarded before the evaluation
was finished. Among the problems discovered were the following:
conveniently learn the capabilities of advanced, easy-to-use software for designing and
1. Installation procedures were often clumsy, and overly burdened with mouse clicks and
2. Software tools failed to install correctly.
Creating an interactive, multimedia method that allows engineers to quickly and
erroneous user inputs.
Analysis of the Innovative Subatomic Particle
Jeff Waldman, Distribution Marketing Manager, System LSI Business Unit
Rob Dautel, Eco Systems Manager, System LSI Business Unit
Demonstration Platform
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debugging embedded systems.
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