BlackBerry QNX and Renesas Electronics America Collaborate to Develop an Automotive-Grade Technology Platform for Autonomous Driving - Seite 2

"Autonomous vehicle development teams face significant challenges in transitioning from research and development to systems that meet automotive power, safety, and quality standards in a real-world environment," said Amrit Vivekanand, vice president of Automotive Business unit, Renesas Electronics America. "Through this collaboration on the self-driving prototype, Renesas and BlackBerry QNX are providing the teams access to an open laboratory and real-world environment, enabling them to accelerate autonomous driving production adaptation by providing low power, certified functional safety hardware and software solutions."

Built around the ARM® Cortex®-A57/A53 cores, the Renesas R-Car H3 SoC realizes powerful automotive computing performance that enables the processing of large amounts of information accurately in realtime. The R-Car H3 achieves 40,000 DMIPS (Dhrystone million instructions per second) processing performance for enhanced processor power, and features the on-chip IMP-X5 parallel programmable engine, which is optimized for interoperation with the CPU.

The R-Car H3 also features the PowerVR™ GX6650 as the 3D graphics engine with the power to run key algorithms and display information with low latency. With high performance and compliance to ISO 26262 (ASIL-B) standard for automotive functional safety, the R-Car H3 SoC can be used as an automotive computing platform that supports a wide range of applications, including advanced driving safety support systems and in-vehicle infotainment systems.

Supporting the vision of BlackBerry QNX's recently announced Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Centre (AVIC), the goal of this autonomous vehicle project is to enable the research community and industry partners to leverage the core software and hardware platform from BlackBerry QNX and Renesas, respectively, as the foundation to create a solution for automated and autonomous drive vehicles.

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