Overview

DJ equipment is a device for playing back, mixing, and scratching music from CD and audio data as if they were from a vinyl record. DJ equipment is mainly made up of two DJ players and one DJ mixer. Although mainly used in North America and Europe until now, recently sales numbers of DJ equipment are increasing in emerging countries such as Russia and Brazil. In addition, although mostly used by businesses such as discos, due to the appearance of low-cost products private users are also increasing in number.

Renesas Electronics simplifies the development of DJ equipment with SH7260 Series 32-bit RISC microcontrollers and RZ/A Series Arm ^® core microprocessors with functions necessary for DJ equipment built-in, and a lineup of power supply ICs, various standard ICs, optoelectronics devices, and so on.

SH7260 Series microcontrollers and RZ/A Series microprocessors are built around a high-performance CPU core and integrate on-chip peripheral functions, such as USB, a CD-ROM decoder, an SD memory card interface, and a serial sound interface.

In addition, a variety of middleware products, such as an MP3 encoder/decoder, are available, allowing for flexible extension of functions and reducing the time required for system development.