Renesas Electronics Introduces Two Versions of the Third Generation R-Car Starter Kit

Tokyo, Japan, October 19, 2016 - Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), the world's leading semiconductor solutions provider, today announced the launch of two large-scale automotive computing systems for the increasingly complex era of autonomous driving. A new third-generation R-Car starter kit. These two kits make it easier for automotive software development engineers to get a development environment. The new R-Car Starter Kit is a highly specialized engineer "professional community" engaged in software development in the areas of image recognition and human machine interface (HMI), and often uses open source software to simplify the development of automotive Linux environments, allowing software engineers to All attention is focused on highly specialized and complex software development. In addition, these kits combine powerful computing performance with scalability for a wide range of computing applications. The new kits are designed to be simple and affordable, making it easy for software engineers and professionals in the community to get their tools for the development of advanced automotive applications.

Renesas Electronics R-Car M3 System on Chip

Renesas Electronics R-Car M3 System on Chip

Renesas Electronics R-Car Starter Kit

Renesas Electronics R-Car Starter Kit

One of the new starter kits features the new R-Car M3 System-on-Chip (SoC), the latest in the third-generation R-Car series, designed for simple, high-performance automotive computing systems. The R-Car M3 maintains software compatibility with existing high-end R-Car H3s and provides a platform that balances performance and cost to meet the greater demand for HMI and ADAS capabilities in more automotive segments.

The R-Car Starter Kit will be available in two versions: R-Car Starter Kit Pro (with evaluation board with R-Car M3 System-on-Chip) and R-Car Starter Kit Premier (with evaluation of high-end R-Car H3 System-on-Chip) board).

The scale and complexity of software development for in-vehicle infotainment systems is increasing as automakers are working to accelerate the development of autopilot systems and add new features to auto differentiated marketing strategies. As the number of new in-vehicle software developers grows, it is critical to retain outstanding and highly specialized software engineers and development environments that ensure the specific requirements of automotive software.

Renesas Electronics has developed a new R-Car Starter Kit to simplify the construction of automotive Linux platforms and QNX® development environments optimized for automotive systems, all of which are open sourced from automotive-specific Linux (AGL), GENIVI® (Note 2), etc. (OS) software (Note 1) Standardization. The starter kit is highly scalable and can be used in a wide range of software developments such as ADAS, infotainment, reconfigurable word instruments, integrated digital cockpits and more. Thanks to the powerful computing power of the R-Car system-on-chip in vehicle installation and advanced open source software, the new starter kit enables "professional community" software engineers to bypass low-level development tasks and focus on developing highly specialized complex software. Speed ​​up time to market for new automotive computing systems.

GENIVI Alliance Executive Director Steve Crumb said: "Renesas Electronics has always supported GENIVI to bring Linux and open source software to the automotive industry. Renesas Electronics' starter kit, together with the GENIVI development platform, will help developers develop accelerated innovation and meet the automotive industry. Software that requires functionality to fully integrate into a highly interconnected world.

"Renesas Electronics is actively active in the open source community. Since its launch four years ago, Renesas Electronics has been a strong supporter of automotive-specific Linux projects," said Dan Cauchy, executive director of automotive-specific Linux at the Linux Foundation. "The commitment to collaboration and ongoing efforts to build an AGL unified code base is helping us change the traditional automotive supply chain model."

Grant Courville, senior director of product management at QNX Software Systems, said: "Automotive manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers have been using QNX and Renesas electronics for more than a decade to build leading infotainment systems. With a new generation of high-performance Renesas Electronics R -Car on-chip system and QNX's ISO 26262 certified operating system and tools to create highly integrated, scalable, safety-certified ADAS systems and security systems for the next generation of autonomous vehicles."

Key features of the new R-Car Starter Kit: (1) Simplify the process of setting up an open source automotive Linux environment

As a leader in the automotive semiconductor industry, Renesas Electronics is working hard to promote the standardization of automotive open source software and actively promote the activities of AGL and GENIVI. The software has been chosen by both organizations as its standard development environment and is widely supported in the open source community. The new R-Car Starter Kit is designed to simplify the task of building an automotive Linux environment for engineers unfamiliar with automotive software development. The price of these kits is extremely competitive, so every developer can have their own kit.

The Starter Kit provides a powerful computing library that supports advanced HMI software such as Wayland and OpenCL as well as cognitive computing (Note 3). The starter kit also supports QNX® real-time OS and has a good track record in the automotive field. With this powerful environment, the new R-Car Starter Kit is ideally suited as a development platform for highly specialized open source developers to develop automotive software.

(2) Highly scalable for a wide range of automotive computing applications

The new R-Car Starter Kit features the main peripheral interfaces necessary for automotive computing development, including Ethernet, audio input/output, display output, USB and JTAG. There is also a 440-pin expansion port for easy access to all peripheral pins of the R-Car system-on-chip. The expansion connector, when used with an expansion board with peripheral functions, meets development requirements and applications, making the starter kit available for a wide range of computing applications, from simple advanced machine vision development environments to large-scale applications such as integrated cockpits System prototype. In addition, multiple R-Car starter kits can be combined to create a large computing environment, for example, combining multiple R-Car H3 starter kits to develop a software platform for autonomous vehicles, reducing the time required for hardware development while Maintain a high degree of software portability and reusability.

(3) Highly easy to use kit that allows system engineers to start development work anytime, anywhere

In addition to purchasing from Renesas Electronics sales and agents, the R-Car Starter Kit is also easily available from Avnet and Marutsu Elec. In order to comply with the larger and global development trend of automotive software development, we can also accept hundreds of sets of bulk orders. The R-Car Starter Kit enables engineers to easily start development work anytime, anywhere.

(4) New R-Car M3 system-on-chip optimized for high-capacity automotive computing systems

The R-Car M3 system-on-chip integrated in the R-Car Starter Kit Pro has optimized features and performance for high-capacity infotainment and 3D digital instrumentation applications. This means that the R-Car M3 can be used to meet a wide range of user requirements for a wide range of automotive computing devices. It is also compatible with existing high-end R-Car H3 system-on-chip software. Therefore, the same software can be used with two new R-Car starter kits. The R-Car M3 comes in a single-chip version and a SiP module version with DDR memory. As the connection speed between the system-on-chip and DDR memory continues to increase, and the number of signal connections increases, connection-related designs become more difficult. The introduction of the SiP module reduces the amount of design work for customers.

The new R-Car Starter Kit is part of Renesas Electronics' commitment to the automotive community for global collaboration and rapid software development. Renesas Electronics has been working with more than 180 partner companies in the R-Car Alliance to provide solutions for in-vehicle infotainment systems and advanced driving safety support systems.

Pricing and availability

Samples of the R-Car M3 system-on-chip are now available. The R-Car Starter Kit Pro (M3) and the Starter Kit Premier (H3) are expected to be available by the end of October 2016. The R-Car Starter Kit Pro is priced at $499 and the R-Car Starter Kit Premier is priced at $799. In addition to being purchased from Renesas Electronics sales companies and agents, these two products can also be purchased from a variety of online retailers. (Prices and availability are subject to change without notice.)

For the main specifications of the R-Car H3 and R-Car M3 Starter Kits, please refer to the separate Spec Sheet 1 (PDF: 197 KB); for the main specifications of the R-Car M3 System-on-Chip, please refer to Spec Sheet 2 (PDF: 330) KB).

(Note 1) The open source community is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development, improvement, and dissemination of open source software information. Open source software is a freely available source code.

(Note 2) Automotive-specific Linux (AGL) and GENIVI are organizations dedicated to the development and promotion of open-source Linux-based in-vehicle infotainment system software.

(Note 3) Cognitive computing requires precise processing of a large amount of information input from sensors such as car cameras in real time.

About Renesas Electronics Co., Ltd.

Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) provides customers with professional and trusted innovative embedded designs and complete semiconductor solutions designed to safely and reliably improve people's work and use billions of connected smart devices using their products. lifestyle. As the world's leading supplier of microcontrollers, analog power devices and SoC products, Renesas Electronics offers a wide range of applications for automotive, industrial, automotive (HE), office automation (OA), and information and communication technologies (ICT). Professional technical support, quality assurance and comprehensive solutions, look forward to working with you to create an infinite future. For more information, please visit renesas.com.

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