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Renesas Electronics Unveils the Renesas Autonomy™ Platform

April 2017 by Emmanuelle Lamandé

Renesas Electronics announced the launch of Renesas autonomy™, a new advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving platform. As the first rollout under its Renesas autonomy Platform, Renesas released the R-Car V3M high-performance image recognition system-on-chip (SoC) optimized primarily for use in smart camera applications, as well as surround view systems or even lidars.

The new "Renesas autonomy” platform is an open and trusted platform for ADAS and automated driving, consisting of Renesas’ sustainable and scalable SoC and microcontroller (MCU) roadmaps. The platform also gives system manufacturers access to Renesas’ expanding ecosystem of partners for ADAS and automated driving technologies.

Key solutions of the Renesas autonomy Platform:
 1) The Renesas autonomy Platform enables automotive system manufacturers to build a full range of ADAS and automated driving systems. System manufacturers can make the best use of the sustained, scalable roadmaps to develop solutions from entry to premium, re-use development efforts, and shorten time to market, benefiting from Renesas’ proven solutions and long-term commitment to the automotive market.
 2) For the implementation of demanding algorithms, Renesas autonomy Platform provides system manufacturers the option to select the most suitable IP cores, including hardware accelerators, offering functional safety and flexibility within an architecture capable of the highest performance at the lowest power consumption. In addition, system manufacturers can leverage Renesas’ expertise in integrating different IPs and in low-power design to reduce their bill of materials (BOM).
To address the requirements for high-level functional safety for ADAS and automated driving applications, Renesas supports several ASIL levels with its latest generation high-performance SoC and MCU devices. In addition to ASIL-C support with the new R-Car V3M SoC, Renesas provides a wide range of ASIL-B SoCs (R-Car M3 and R-Car H3) and ASIL-D MCUs (RH850/P1X Series) that meet the requirements of the latest ADAS applications.
 3) Renesas has 195 key technology suppliers worldwide in its R-Car Consortium and is continuously adding partners from the ADAS and automated driving areas to support the Renesas autonomy Platform. The development platform is open, allowing system manufacturers to choose where to enter, either building directly on Renesas innovations or working with ecosystem partners. System manufacturers can choose to maximize the creation of value in-house, or significantly reduce their design efforts and shorten time to market by working with Renesas’ R-Car Consortium.

The R-Car V3M is the latest SoC from the new Renesas autonomy Platform – a functionally safe, low-power device, primarily aiming at smart camera applications, but also surround view systems or even lidars.

Key Features of the R-Car V3M solution:
 1) The R-Car V3M SoC implements a top-notch performance computer vision platform using different accelerators, including a versatile pipeline engine (IMP) and a computer vision engine (CVE), allowing the R-Car V3M to manage algorithms like optical flow, object detection and classification and convolutional neural networks. The R-Car V3M integrates a dual ARM® Cortex® A53 for application programming and dual Cortex R7 lockstep cores to run AUTOSAR. The R-Car V3M achieves the hardware architectural metrics recommended for systems that require ASIL-B and higher functional safety levels to act as a real-time core “safety island.”
 2) The R-Car V3M includes an integrated ISP that enhances the raw image quality from the camera sensor and makes the image ready for computer vision. The integration eliminates the need for an external ISP component in the front camera or in the sensor itself.
 3) The R-Car V3M follows the principal of the Renesas autonomy Platform and is supported by Renesas and its ecosystem of partners with complementary hardware such as sensors, operating systems, computer vision expertise and applications. This allows system manufacturers to maximize the creation of value in-house or shorten time to market by working with partners – a new freedom in the front camera market.

Availability

Samples of the R-Car V3M SoC will be available from December 2017. Mass production is scheduled to begin in June 2019.


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