Many applications and products are required to be in the market for a long time and as such will need to have components supply to be able to support them for 10 years and beyond. This is especially so for applications like automotive, medical and industrial automation.
Renesas has a product longevity program (PLP) to address this requirement, this is especially so for its microcontrollers since this provides the brain for any embedded application and is not likely to find a 100% drop-in replacement without making changes, unlike memory or discrete components.
Today, I would like to introduce to you Renesas’ PLP for RX microcontrollers and where to find more detailed information, i.e., the date of termination for the support device. The RX MCU has more than 700 devices under this PLP program. All the RX general-purpose microcontrollers with LQFP packages (from 48-pin ~ 176 pins) support a minimum of 15 years for PLP and 10 years of PLP for BGA and LGA packages. The diagram below shows the lineup of the RX MCUs that have PLP in place.
You can check for RX MCU PLP products on each MCU series product page. Applicable products are indicated by a data display in the PLP column of the Product Option table. See the below diagram for an example.
More information on the Renesas Product Longevity Program (PLP).