Renesas Electronics and Sunwoda Power Reach Collaboration Agreement to Jointly Develop BMS and Gateway Solutions

Recently, Renesas Electronics and Sunwoda Power Technology Co., Ltd. reached a cooperation consensus and jointly announced that they will work together to design automotive BMS and gateway solutions for the fast-growing electric vehicle (EV) market. Targeting Tier 1 automotive parts suppliers and OEMs, the two parties will develop interconnected gateways and RH850 MCU-on-chip BMS solutions based on Renesas Electronics R-Car system-on-chip (SoC) .

According to the agreement, Renesas will provide Sunwoda with the latest R-Car SoC, RH850 MCU, analog and power products, as well as related technical support to assist it in developing a new generation of in-vehicle connection gateway systems and BMS products. The two parties will regularly share product development roadmaps, product specifications and market-related information.

Group photo of the signing parties

Fourth from left: Luo Yan, Vice President of Supply Chain, Automotive Electronics Division, Sunwoda | Fifth from left: Lai Changqing, Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing, Renesas

With the mission of "innovation drives the progress of the new energy world", Sunwoda is committed to contributing wisdom and strength to the realization of the "dual carbon" goal, and has built six major business sectors: 3C consumer batteries, power batteries, energy storage systems, smart hardware, smart manufacturing and industrial Internet, and third-party testing services. With the vision of being based in Shenzhen and serving the world, Sunwoda has currently deployed multiple production and manufacturing bases in Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Hubei, India, Vietnam, Hungary, Morocco and other places.

Renesas offers a full range of semiconductor solutions with its broad product portfolio and application expertise accumulated through years of successful collaboration with global automotive customers. Our automotive solutions cover traditional areas such as powertrain, chassis, body, and connectivity/infotainment, as well as the latest transformation drivers in the automotive industry such as ADAS/autonomous driving, electric vehicles, and gateway/domain control. In the future, the two parties plan to cooperate not only in the fields of gateways and BMS, but also in a wide range of automotive applications such as on-board computers and automatic parking assistance systems (APA) and body control modules (BCM). In recent years, Renesas Electronics has been designing and producing microcomputers for MCUs in areas of safety requirements, and is committed to continuously investing in the expertise and equipment required for the development of cutting-edge new products to meet the high demand for safety in today's connected products.

Signing ceremony