R-Car Automotive System-on-Chips (SoCs)

Transforming Intelligent & Automated Driving Vehicles

Renesas R-Car System-on-Chips (SoCs) integrate advanced AI technology to deliver exceptional TOPS-per-Watt efficiency, balancing high performance with optimized power consumption for demanding, high-speed AI processing. The scalable R-Car family supports a wide range of automotive applications, including advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), Navigate by Autopilot (NAO), automated driving up to Level 5, AI assistants powered by large language models (LLM) and visual language models (VLM), in-vehicle infotainment with peer-to-peer displays, and cross-domain solutions that combine ADAS and IVI. Built for safety-critical environments, R-Car SoCs comply with ISO 26262 standards and support up to ASIL-D, ensuring the highest level of functional safety for automotive operations.

The R-Car platform offers hardware scalability and software flexibility, serving vehicles from entry-level to premium. It simplifies integration through support for open-source tools, compatible plug-ins, virtual platforms, and digital twins—accelerating development, enhancing adaptability, and streamlining implementation.

R-Car for Every Segment

R-Car Open Access (RoX) Software-Defined Vehicle Platform

Accelerate and simplify reliable automotive development with our leading-edge and FAST R-Car Open Access (RoX) development platform, including diverse development tools, software libraries, sample software, reference boards, and starter kits provided by both Renesas and our partners for software-defined vehicles (SDV).

Flexible: OSS-based and commercial SW
Agile: Seamless development and deployment
Scalable: Common platform across SoCs and MCUs
Tooling: Integrated DevOps platform

Diagram of renesas R‑Car RoX software‑defined vehicle platform showing its layered architecture of hardware, operating systems, software stacks, and development tools for SDV applications. — R-Car Open Access (RoX) Software-Defined Vehicle Platform Diagram

Get Started with R-Car

Explore our comprehensive hardware and software ecosystem designed to accelerate your journey into software-defined vehicles.

RoX Virtual Platform

The RoX Virtual Platform (VPF) accelerates software development by enabling early simulation of R-Car functions before hardware is available. It ensures a smooth transition to physical hardware, reducing rework and speeding up time-to-market.

RoX Virtual Platform

RoX Software Development Kit

The RoX SDK is an intuitive development framework for R-Car SoCs, featuring open-source tools and commercial software solutions. It provides a seamless path to development and deployment with "MP-ready" options from Renesas and partners.

RoX Software Development Kit

RoX AI Studio

The RoX AI Workbench enables cloud-based development for fine-tuning AI models and building applications on the R-Car platform. Compatible with Azure and AWS, it supports seamless validation via simulators or evaluation boards.

RoX AI Studio

Evaluation Board

The White Hawk evaluation board for R-Car V4H streamlines system evaluation and development of OS, drivers, and applications. With multi-camera 4K input/output, audio, networking, and PCIe Gen4, it accelerates product development and reduces turnaround time.

R-Car V4H System Evaluation Board Set/White Hawk

Partners

The R-Car Consortium brings together system integrators, middleware/application developers, and operating system and tools vendors who are developing solutions for the car information system (CIS) market.

R-Car Consortium