Automotive: Continental chooses Renesas' advanced SoC for Body Computer High-Performance platform

For an automotive computing platform that provides centralized control of vehicle systems, Continental has adopted Renesas' high-performance R-Car M3 system-on-chip (SoC)

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For the first generation of Body Computer High-Performance (HPC), an automotive computing platform that provides centralized control of vehicle systems and has secure gateway capabilities to enable cloud service connectivity, Continental has adopted the high-performance R-Car M3 system-on-chip (SoC) from Renesas.
Renesas' SoC supports over-the-air (OTA) software updates with the highest level of safety and functional safety, making it possible to centrally control automotive software updates. R-Car M3 also contributes to the new concept of electrical/electronic (E/E) architecturethat helps improve vehicle performance, safety and reliability while reducing vehicle weight. Performing software updates individually on dozens of electronic control units (ECUs) installed in a vehicle is indeed very difficult: the current move towards a new E/E architecture that uses a central vehicle computer to implement centralized software updates will address this challenge.
"Thanks to the new server architecture, vehicles will be updated easier and faster than today. We are making the vehicle an integral part of the Internet of Everything, contributing to the increased functionality and comfort of the vehicle itself," said Johann Hiebl, head of the Connected Car Networking business unit at Continental. "The first generation of Continental's high-performance body computer using the high-performance R-Car SoC is already in production at a global vehicle manufacturer."
"Renesas is focused on achieving an optimal balance of performance and energy efficiency for our automotive customers, with a view to device adoption in high-volume manufactured vehicles," said Shingo Yamamoto, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Renesas' Automotive Solution Business Unit.
Renesas' automotive computing platforms and cross-domain controllers that coordinate multiple ECUs are driving the acceleration of vehicle development strategies. Moving forward, Renesas will continue to develop products with a balance of performance and energy efficiency that make them suitable for adoption in high-demand vehicles and that contribute to the realization of a secure mobility-based society.

The Renesas R-Car offering

The versatile R-Car portfolio offers the scalability to meet the requirements of a variety of vehicles and is ideal as an overall automotive computing platform. It ranges from high-end devices such as the R-Car H3, built around eight 64-bit Arm® CPUs with superior performance of up to 45,000 DMIPS, to the R-Car E3 with performance of 7,500 DMIPS.
R-Car's virtualization capability allows the software that connects to external cloud services to be isolated from the software that controls the vehicle, allowing them to operate completely independently. This robust separation on a single chip allows R-Car to serve as a safe and secure vehicle gateway. R-Car devices also integrate several hardware security features, including secure boot and secure network communications via Ethernet to the domain controller. They are also equipped with high-speed Gigabit Ethernet to provide the data throughput required for rapid software updates and increasing amounts of sensor information to support ADAS functions.
In addition, R-Car can be combined with Renesas' RH850/U2A cross-domain microcontroller(MCU) that supports functional safety up to ASIL D level, and the company's rich portfolio of automotive power management and timing solutions to form a complete solution for vehicle servers.

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