Overview
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.
R-Car H3e-2G Starter Kit Premier (RTP8J779M1ASKB0SK0SA003)
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.
Older Starter Kit Series (EOL)
See Support section.
Features
- Simplifies the process of establishing open-source automotive Linux environments.
- The R-Car starter kits are designed to simplify the task of setting up automotive Linux environments for engineers who are new to the development of automotive software, and are competitively priced so that each developer can be provided with their own kit.
- Powerful computing libraries are provided with support for cutting-edge HMI software and cognitive computing. They also support the QNXR real-time OS with its proven track record in the automotive field. With this robust environment, the R-Car starter kits are well suited as development platforms for automotive software created by highly specialized professional communities of open-source developers.
- High level of extensibility for use with a wide range of automotive computing applications.
- The primary peripheral interfaces essential to automotive computing development are provided. There is also a 440-pin expansion port that enables use of all the peripheral pins of the R-Car SoC, enabling the kits to be employed for a wide range of computing applications, from a simple advanced computer vision development environments to prototyping of large-scale systems such as integrated cockpits.
Specifications
- CPU
- R-Car Starter Kit Premier (employing the R-Car H3):
- Arm CA57 (Armv8) 1.5GHz quad core, with NEON/VFPv4, L1 cache I/D 48K/32K, L2 cache 2MB
- Arm CA53 (Armv8) 1.2GHz quad core, with NEON/VFPv4, L1 cache I/D 32K/32K, L2 cache 512K
- Memory controller for LPDDR4 4GB in 2 channels, each 64-bit wide
- R-Car Starter Kit Premier (employing the R-Car H3e-2G):
- Arm Cortex-A57 (Armv8) 2.0 GHz quad core, with NEON/VFPv4, L1 cache I/D 48K/32K, L2 cache 2MB
- Arm Cortex-A53 (Armv8) 1.2GHz quad core, with NEON/VFPv4, L1 cache I/D 32K/32K, L2 cache 512K
- Memory controller for LPDDR4 4GB in 2 channels, each 64-bit wide
- R-Car Starter Kit Pro (employing the R-Car M3):
- Arm CA57 (Armv8) 1.7GHz dual core, with NEON/VFPv4, L1 cache I/D 48K/32K, L2 cache 2MB
- Arm CA53 (Armv8) 1.3GHz quad core, with NEON/VFPv4, L1 cache I/D 32K/32K, L2 cache 512K
- Memory controller for LPDDR4 2GB in 2 channels, each 32-bit wide
- Three-dimensional graphics engine
- Video processing unit
- 3 channels display output
- 6 channels video input
- SD Card host interface
- USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 interfaces
- CAN interface
- Ethernet AVB
- PCI Express interface
- R-Car Starter Kit Premier (employing the R-Car H3):
- Memory
- Internal 384KB system RAM
- 64MB HyperFlash™
- 16MB QSPI flash
- 8/32/64/128 GB eMMC
- microSD card slot
- Connectors
- CN1 expansion connector 440-pin
- CN2 QSPI flash module
- CN3 debug JTAG
- CN4 HDMI
- CN5 USB 2.0
- CN6 push-pull microSD card socket
- CN7 Ethernet connector RJ45
- CN8 LINE out
- CN9 MIC input
- CN10 debug serial
- CN11 CPLD programming JTAG
- CN12 debug serial
- CN13 main power supply input (5V DC)
- CN14 CPU fan
- Board Specifications
- Dimensions: 100mm × 100mm
- Height: 57mm (with fan)
- External power supply 5V/4A-8A, ripple and noise (Vp-p) full load 200mV
Applications
Design & Development
News & Blog Posts
Support
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.
Buy or Sample
Support Communities
- How to unable USB networking to enable internet connection
Hi, I am using kingfisher board with 8 GB of memory (RTP8J779M1ASKB0SK0SA003). I have folllowed all the yocto building details and able to build the image successfully. I cant connect the ethernet directly to board due to some network issue. So i wanted to get internet connection through USB dongle ...
May 14, 2024 - RE:GPU RAM
What is the gpu ram size of He3-2G SK RTP8J779M1ASKB0SK0SA003 and how to check GPU is working or not ? is Rcar H3e-2g using PowerVR Series6XT GX6650 GPU?
Jan 13, 2023 - related to user led registers
we are trying to write led drivers for R-car h3e 2G sk (RTP8J779M1ASKB0SK0SA003) . what are all registers used for user leds(led4,led5,led6) and what are its gpio pins has any wrote leds drivers for R-car in QNX
Nov 16, 2022
Knowledge Base
- 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 - 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
Support Communities
