Open Access Platform Accelerates Software-Defined Vehicle Development
Combining hardware, software, and cloud-native AI for ADAS, IVI, and gateway systems, Renesas Electronics' R-Car Open Access (RoX) development platform for software-defined vehicles (SDVs) enables automotive developers to create next-generation vehicles with secure and continuous software updates. Designed for the Renesas R-Car family of SoCs and microcontrollers, the SDV platform includes tools to deploy AI applications.
The RoX Whitebox is an open software package that includes royalty-free OS and hypervisor software such as Android Automotive OS, FreeRTOS, Linux, Xen, and Zephyr RTOS, as well as reference applications. The RoX Licensed version is based on commercial software solutions such as QNX and Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System, as well as AUTOSAR-compliant software and SAFERTOS.
Pre-integrated and tested to run on Renesas’ R-Car SoCs and MCUs, it includes pre-validated software stacks from STRADVISION for ADAS and Candera CGI Studio for in-vehicle infotainment. The RoX SDV platform’s cloud environment and virtual development platform lets developers design, debug in simulation, and verify their software before deploying on live SoCs and MCUs. The platform includes the Renesas Fast Simulator as well as partner solutions such as the ASTC VLAB VDM and Synopsys Virtualizer Development Kit to provide broad coverage of simulation speed, features, and use cases.
RoX offers the AI Workbench to enable developers to validate and optimize their models and test their AI applications all in the cloud, either on the virtual development platform or on Renesas board farms. The RoX SDV platform also supports Amazon Web Services Cloud computing services. And with the Renesas R-Car SDK in the AWS cloud environment, developers can simulate and test hardware and software combinations and deploy AI applications that seamlessly run on R-Car devices.
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R-Car Gen 5 MCU/SoC Family
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