Renesas Electronics Introduces R-Car S4 Starter Kit for Rapid Software Development of Automotive Gateway Systems
【Lansheng Technology Information】 Renesas Electronics today announced the launch of a new development board for automotive gateway systems - R-Car S4 Starter Kit, as a low-cost and easy-to-use development board for Renesas R-Car Software development for the Car S4 System-on-Chip (SoC), which provides high computing performance and a range of communication functions for cloud communication and secure vehicle control. Compared to the existing R-Car S4 reference board, the new starter kit is a lower-cost and easier-to-use option that builds a complete development environment including the evaluation board and software. Engineers can use the new kit to easily start initial evaluation of applications such as automotive servers, internet gateways, connectivity modules, etc., enabling rapid application development.
Takeshi Fuse, Head of Marketing and Business Development, High Performance Computing, Analog & Power Solutions Group at Renesas said: "R-Car S4 SoC has been adopted by many customers as a gateway SoC supporting E/E architecture evolution. At the same time , customers need a low-cost development environment that can be widely used by their design teams, and this development board can meet customer needs. We believe it can help customers accelerate product development.”
R-Car S4 Starter Kit includes basic R-Car S4 interfaces such as Ethernet TSN switch and CAN FD, as well as 4GB (gigabytes) LPDDR4, 128GB UFS (universal flash memory) and 64MB (megabytes) Quad SPI flash memory etc. memory. In addition, users can easily expand peripheral functions by using expansion connectors and customize the hardware according to individual needs.
In addition, Renesas provides the R-Car S4 Whitebox SDK, an open-source automotive development environment for the R-Car S4, which can be used in conjunction with the R-Car S4 Starter Kit. The SDK consists of FoC (free of charge) software, which can be used easily without complex licensing agreements. The SDK includes sample software, test programs, resource monitoring tools for OTA (cloud download), and IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) and IDS (Intrusion Detection System) for network security, enabling various prototyping and evaluation. Users can develop their own applications based on the example software. The kit shortens the development cycle and reduces power consumption, thereby reducing environmental impact.
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