R-Car Cockpit ECU Reference Solution

Accelerated path to production

Kickstart your development with this all new reference solution from Renesas. Customers receive physical modules along with full hardware and software source collateral to aid in their own automotive designs.

The system is pre-configured to showcase all solution features as an out of the box development experience.

A true white-box solution designed for a wide array of integration and test situations including desktop, environmental, HiL, SiL, and vehicle platforms.

R-Car Cockpit ECU Hardware

The R-Car Cockpit ECU Hardware design is based on R-Car M3

The R-Car Cockpit ECU Reference Hardware jumpstarts your automotive development by shortcutting several difficult and time consuming challenges including high speed LPDDR4 layout, peripheral layout, design optimization and functionality testing.

Hardware deliverables include:

ECU
PCB schematic
PCB layout
HW parts library
Board bring up procedure and SW test utility
Highspeed memory simulation assets
Mechanical enclosure CAD model

R-Car Cockpit ECU Software

The R-Car Cockpit ECU Software package is delivered as a transparent mixture of FOSS and proprietary source code. Renesas proprietary code maybe modified, changed and distributed as the customer requires. This creates a full “white box” baseline solution. Software package includes:

BSP & Drivers
Virtualization with GHS Integrity safety content and Auto Grade Linux IVI content
Multiple display outputs (up to 3x)
Polished & flexible UI with Qt
Multimedia support of audio/video playback
Mapbox Auto Navigation support
Robust Bluetooth stack
System settings & user profile support
Connectivity interfaces: Automotive Ethernet, CAN/CAN FD
Telematics interfaces: WiFi, BT, LTE
Camera integration supporting surround view, backup camera