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Description
Software development for car information systems is increasing in scale and complexity in recent years, in order to accelerate the development of autonomous driving and to develop new functionality to attractively differentiate vehicles. As more companies are starting automotive software development, there is an urgent need to secure skilled and specialized engineers as well as the development environment required for automotive applications. Renesas has developed R-Car starter kits for supporting automotive software development. These kits enable users to easily build automotive Linux platforms that are standardized by the Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) and GENIVI®open source communities and that are highly extensible and can be used for wide variety of applications.
Since the hardware used has high computing capabilities for automotive and the latest open source software can be used, by having one kit on hand per engineer from the professional community, the engineer can concentrate on advanced development of specialized software allowing for the realization of new automotive computing systems quickly.
The premier R-Car starter kit supports best-in-class computing performance for automotive and offers a powerful computing library to provide the ultimate automotive computing environment.
Features
- Simplifies setup of open-source automotive Linux environments
- Cost-effective starter kit ideal for individual developers and teams
- Supports advanced HMI, cognitive computing, and the QNX® real-time OS
- Well suited for automotive software development and open-source projects
- Extensive automotive interfaces and a 440-pin expansion port for added flexibility
- Scalable for applications ranging from computer vision to integrated cockpit prototyping
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EOL Notification of the R-Car H3 model Starter Kit Premier and R-Car M3 model Starter Kit Pro:
Production of R-Car H3 model and M3 model Starter Kit are discontinued, and SK series are integrated into only R-Car H3e-2G model Starter Kit Premier. After EOL, SW support for R-Car H3 model and M3 model Starter Kit continue.
eLinux Site
R-Car Starter Kit board information and Yocto Linux/Android BSP are available from the eLinux site. See Resources section below.
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Knowledge Base
- Which Yocto BSP version supports H3e-2G Starter Kit(RTP8J779M1ASKB0SK0SA003)?
Yocto v5.1.0 or later supports it.Note: On Yocto v5.1.0, CA57 core doesn't run at 2GHz frequency. It's recommended to use Yocto v5.5.0 or later.
Jan 7, 2022 - What is difference between H3 v3 Starter Kit(RTP0RC77951SKBX010SA03) and H3e-2G Starter Kit(RTP8J779M1ASKB0SK0SA003) except for SoC?
There is no difference except for SoC.
Jan 7, 2022 - How to operate H3-2G Starter Kit(RTP8J779M1ASKB0SK0SA003) at CA57 2GHz?
If you use H3-2G Starter Kit, please use Yocto v5.5.0 or later.https://elinux.org/R-Car/Boards/Yocto-Gen3 1. Use r8a779m1-ulcb.dtb2. CA57 is automatically set to 2GHz during boot. You can confirm it below root@h3ulcb:~# cat ...
Jan 7, 2022
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