Renesas Electronics Supplies R-Car H3, Very first SoC from the Third-Generation R-Car Automotive Computing Platform for the Autonomous-Driving Era
SANTA CLARA, Calif., December Two, two thousand fifteen — Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today unveiled the third-generation R-Car, an automotive computing platform solution for driving safety support systems and in-vehicle infotainment systems. The fresh R-Car H3 System-on-Chip (SoC), the very first member of the third-generation R-Car, supplies CPU spectacle, pic recognition processing, ISO twenty six thousand two hundred sixty two (ASIL-B) compliance, and a system in package (SiP) with outer memory to enable a broad range of automotive applications.
The R-Car H3 realizes powerful automotive computing spectacle exceeding that of the predecessor R-Car H2. This enables system manufacturers to utilize the fresh R-Car H3 as an automotive computing platform to play a key role in the autonomous-driving era.
To make the fresh device ideal for driving safety support systems, the R-Car H3 provides cognitive computing capabilities, an enhanced computing spectacle that can process large volumes of information from vehicle sensors accurately in real-time, and enables system manufacturers to run applications that require complicated processing, such as obstacle detection, driver status recognition, hazard prediction, and hazard avoidance. To further accelerate the driving safety support systems, the R-Car H3 also conforms to the ISO twenty six thousand two hundred sixty two (ASIL-B) functionality safety for automotive.
Furthermore, in in-vehicle infotainment systems, the need for connectivity inbetween various systems and services such as smartphones and cloud services is growing. These have led to a significant increase in the volume of data transmitted from outside the system. Therefore, there is a request for human-machine interface (HMI) computing to process these large amounts of data accurately in real-time. The outstanding spectacle power of the R-Car H3 makes excellent graphics design possible to realize advanced applications and rich HMI.
The R-Car H3 is an automotive computing platform ideal for the autonomous-driving era with significantly improved cognitive computing and HMI computing capabilities for advanced driving support systems as well as in-vehicle infotainment systems.
Key features of the fresh R-Car H3:
(1) Support for a broad range of applications as an automotive computing platform
To enable system manufacturers to utilize the R-Car H3 as an automotive computing platform, the fresh device realizes powerful automotive computing spectacle exceeding that of the predecessor R-Car H2.To process large amounts of information accurately in real-time, the R-Car H3 is built around the ARM® Cortex®-A57/A53 cores, employing the newest 64-bit CPU core architecture from ARM. It achieves processing spectacle of 40,000 DMIPS (Dhrystone million instructions per 2nd (Note 1)) for enhanced processing power. The R-Car H3 also features the PowerVR™ GX6650 as the 3-D graphics engine to supply reliable information to drivers at the right timing. Based on the latest architecture from Imagination Technologies, it supplies approximately three times the shader calculation (Note Two) processing spectacle of the R-Car H2.
The on-chip IMP-X5 parallel programmable engine offers advanced picture recognition technology in addition to the CPU and GPU. Off the hook to Renesas, the IMP-X5 is a recognition engine that is optimized for interoperation with the CPU. It supplies four times the recognition spectacle of the earlier IMP-X4 picture recognition engine, embedded in the second-generation R-Car family.
The R-Car H3 is the very first automotive SoC in the world to adopt the 16nm process. By realizing this high spectacle as well as compliance with the ISO26262 (ASIL-B) standard for automotive functional safety, the R-Car H3 can be used as an automotive computing platform that supports a broad range of applications, including advanced driving safety support systems and in-vehicle infotainment systems.
(Two) Improved system level spectacle based on the results of rich in-vehicle infotainment systems
As the market leader (Note Trio) for worldwide in-vehicle infotainment SoC, Renesas has a surpassing system spectacle based on passed results. Especially by optimizing the internal bus architecture of the SoC, and improving the bandwidth of the DDR memory, the R-Car H3 realizes four times the memory bandwidth compared to the R-Car H2, which enables the system manufacturer to run numerous applications.
Addressing the request for higher resolution movie playback on numerous displays, the R-Car H3 incorporates movie codec engine special to Renesas that supports fresh movie compression formats and achieves two times the movie playback spectacle of the R-Car H2.
The R-Car H3 also incorporates enhanced security functions for a more sturdy boot protection process as well as protection against outward cyber-attacks.
The R-Car H3 produces drastically improved functionality and system level spectacle, making it possible to utilize the R-Car H3 for a long period of time.
(Trio) Availability of SiP modules with outward memory to reduce the design workload
SiP modules support high-speed outward DDR memory interface design with the R-Car H3. As the connection speed inbetween the SoC and DDR memory rises, and the number of signal lines increases, burdens and complexities of PCB design increase. These have become significant issues for system manufacturers. By developing modules with an SoC connected to DDR memory, Renesas is reducing the cargo as well as the PCB costs and complexities associated with the design. In addition to the SoC and DDR memory, the modules include serial flash memory required for initial boot-up. This means the design tasks from boot-up through DDR memory operation can be eliminated and system manufacturers adopting the R-Car H3 can reduce their design tasks and risks.
The fresh R-Car H3 maintains a high level of software compatibility with the other SoCs in the R-Car Family already available: the R-Car H2, R-Car M2, and R-Car E2. The R-Car H3 will maintain high level software scalability for the third-generation R-Car Family.
“The R-Car H3 SoC has the all-round sensing, efficiency and safety characteristics that are essential in connected car technologies,” said James McNiven, general manager, CPU group, ARM. “Alongside the inclusion of the high spectacle ARM® Cortex®-R7 real-time processor, the SoC also capitalizes on the ARM Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 cores in an ARM big.LITTLE™ configuration. This has permitted Renesas to produce advanced vision and detection capabilities while controlling power and achieving the stability that safety-critical electronics request.”
“Imagination is delighted to see the introduction of the R-Car H3 which includes or our high spectacle PowerVR GX6650 graphics engine,” said Tony King-Smith, Imagination Technologies EVP marketing. “GX6650 supplies premium graphics spectacle and features to enable future cockpit practices, as well as comprehensive GPGPU capabilities.”
“We are pleased to playmate with Renesas to provide QNX® software support for the fresh R-Car H3 SoC,” said John Wall, Senior Vice President and Head of QNX Software Systems, a subsidiary of BlackBerry. “Through this collaboration, we can help accelerate the delivery of next-generation infotainment and ADAS systems that combine the spectacle of Renesas’ R-Car H3 SoCs with the proven reliability and scalability of QNX OS technology.”
“Next-generation automotive electronics must be designed with security and safety as the top priority,” said Tim Reed, Vice President of Advanced Products, Green Hills Software. “By suggesting our proven INTEGRITY real-time operating system and Multivisor secure virtualization solutions with the R-Car’s safe and reliable technologies, automotive OEMs and Tier 1’s can be certain in realizing this significant design objective.”
Availability
Samples of the R-Car H3 are available now. Mass production is scheduled to begin in March two thousand eighteen and is expected to reach a volume of 100,000 units per month in March 2019. (Availability is subject to switch without notice.)