Renesas Electronics, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the launch of Renesas autonomy, a new advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving platform. As the first rollout under its groundbreaking 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 R-Car V3M SoC complies with the ISO26262 functional safety standard, delivers low-power hardware acceleration for vision processing, and is equipped with a built-in image signal processor (ISP), freeing up board space and reducing system manufacturers’ system costs.
Renesas will exhibit its first Renesas autonomy demonstrator developed based on the new R-Car V3M SoC at DevCon Japan to be held in Tokyo Japan on April 11, 2017.
About the Renesas autonomy Platform
Vehicles in the autonomous driving era will be required to sense the environment, control the vehicle, and conduct synchronized communications with cloud. Wide range of technologies are necessary to realize these functions and each technology need to maintain high reliability to synchronize without any flaw. At the same time, these technologies are continuously advancing, which is why there is a growing demand for a total end-to-end solution.
Renesas launched the new “Renesas autonomy” platform, leveraging its long-standing experience and expertise in the automotive market as the leading automotive semiconductor supplier. Renesas autonomy is an open, innovative and trusted platform for ADAS and automated driving, consisting of Renesas’ sustainable and scalable SoC and microcontroller (MCU) roadmaps. Renesas is the only automotive semiconductor supplier in the industry to cover end-to-end solutions from secure cloud connectivity and sensing to vehicle control. Renesas’ groundbreaking platform further extends its commitment to ADAS and automated driving. The platform also gives system manufacturers access to Renesas’ expanding ecosystem of partners for ADAS and automated driving technologies, thereby improving development efficiency and speeding their time to market.
