Renesas takes Product of the Year Award for advanced ADAS SoC

摘要

The editorial team for Product of the Year discovered a number of products in the automotive ADAS arena that were interesting. In the end we chose two that were definitely leading the charge to this new mode of automotive safety. The Renesas R-Car V2H SoC, rated for 7,000 DMIPS, starts with a Cortex-A15 dual-core CPU and adds six IMR channels for viewpoint conversion processing, an IMP-X4 core with six programmable image processing accelerators for fourth-generation image recognition, and a 3D graphics core. Renesas began working to create an ADAS-focused SoC in 2012. The marketing and sales teams collected requirements globally from automotive customers, and this feedback drove many of the design decisions. From a hardware standpoint, the teams identified image processing accelerators, functional safety features, additional camera inputs, and Ethernet AVB, for additional sensor data, as key needs.