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Renesas Electronics Accelerates NCAP Front Camera Application Development for Entry and Mid-Range Cars With Comprehensive R-Car V3M-Based SolutionRenesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the R-Car V3M Starter Kit to simplify and speed up the development of New Car Assessment Program (NCAP, Note 1) front camera applications, surround view systems, and LiDARs. The new starter kit is based on the R-Car V3M image recognition system-on-chip (SoC), delivering a combination of low power consumption and high performance for the growing NCAP front camera market. By combining the R-Car V3M starter kit with supporting software and tools, system developers can easily develop front camera applications, contributing to reduced development efforts and faster time-to-market. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171221005269/en/ Renesas R-Car V3M Starter Kit for automotive front camera, surround view and LiDAR development (Graphic: Business Wire) Renesas also announced an enhancement to the R-Car V3M by integrating a new, highly power-efficient hardware accelerator for high-performance convolutional neural networks (CNNs, Note 2), which enables features such as road detection or object classification that are increasingly used in automotive applications. The R-Car V3M's innovative hardware accelerator enables CNNs to execute at ultra-low power consumption levels that cannot be reached when CNNs are running on CPUs or GPUs. The new R-Car V3M Starter Kit, the R-Car V3M SoC, and supporting software and tools including Renesas' open-source e2 studio IDE integrated development environment (IDE), are part of Renesas' open, innovative, and trusted Renesas autonomy™ Platform for ADAS and automated driving that delivers total end-to-end solutions scaling from cloud to sensing and vehicle control. "With the R-Car V3M Starter Kit, Renesas significantly reduces development efforts and accelerates time-to-market for the rapidly growing market of NCAP cameras," said Jean-Francois Chouteau, Vice President, Renesas Electronics Corporation. "Following our announcements on the R-Car V3M SoC and our partnership with HELLA Aglaia for front camera application software, the starter kit completes the offering to develop state-of-the-art front camera solutions." Key features of the R-Car V3M Starter Kit
In addition to the R-Car V3M Starter Kit, Renesas has enabled ultra-low power consumption for CNNs, which achieve image recognition and image classification, on the R-Car V3M SoC. The R-Car V3M allows the implementation of high-performance, low power consumption CNN networks in NCAP cameras that cannot be realized with traditional high power consuming CPU or GPU architectures. Renesas complements the IMP-X5, a subsystem for computer vision processing that is composed of an image processor and the programmable CV engine, with a new, innovative CNN hardware accelerator developed in house, that allows the implementation of high-performance CNNs at ultra-low low power. With this new IP, Renesas enables system developers to choose between the IMP-X5 or the new hardware accelerator to deploy CNNs. This heterogeneous approach allows system developers to choose the most efficient architecture, depending on required programming flexibility, performance, and power consumption. Availability The Renesas R-Car V3M is available now. The R-Car V3M Starter Kit with a Linux BSP will be available in Q1 2018 initially in limited quantities. A complete offering with an extended software solution is scheduled for Q3 2018. Please refer to the separate sheet for product specifications of the R-Car V3M Starter Kit.
(Note 1) New Car Assessment Program (NCAP): (Note 2) Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), are deep, feed-forward artificial neural networks that have been successfully applied for analyzing visual imagery and are increasingly used in automotive for applications like road detection or object classification. (Note 3) An embedded multi-media controller (eMMC) onboard memory allows to boot the operating system from the starter kit. This is much faster than booting via network. For more information about Renesas, follow Renesas Electronics America at @RenesasAmerica on Twitter (News - Alert) and https://www.facebook.com/RenesasAmericas/. About Renesas Electronics Corporation Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) delivers trusted embedded design innovation with complete semiconductor solutions that enable billions of connected, intelligent devices to enhance the way people work and live-securely and safely. A global leader in microcontrollers, analog, power and SoC products, Renesas provides the expertise, quality, and comprehensive solutions for a broad range of Automotive, Industrial, Home Electronics (HE), Office Automation (OA) and Information Communication Technology (ICT) applications to help shape a limitless future. Learn more at renesas.com. (Remarks) Renesas autonomy is a trademark of Renesas Electronics Corporation. SYCL is the trademark of the Khronos Group Inc. OpenCL and the OpenCL logo are trademarks of Apple (News - Alert) Inc. used by permission of the Khronos Group™. All names of products or services mentioned in this press release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171221005269/en/ |