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Green Hills Software Extends Its Trusted Instrument Cluster Solutions to Renesas Electronics' R-Car D3 System-on-ChipNUREMBERG, Germany, Feb. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- embedded world, Hall 4, Stand 325 -- Green Hills Software, the global leader in high-assurance real-time operating systems and virtualization, announced today its safe and secure INTEGRITY® real-time operating system (RTOS) and supporting products/services portfolio for the R-Car D3 automotive system-on-chip (SoC) for graphical instrument clusters from Renesas Electronics. The highly integrated high-performance platform combines the trusted ASIL-certified INTEGRITY RTOS and development tools with the high-performance 64-bit R-Car D3 and its Open GL 3D graphics acceleration from the Power VR® Series 8XE graphics processing unit (GPU) from Imagination Technologies. Carmakers and their Tier 1 suppliers can now create rich and smooth graphics-intensive human machine interfaces (HMI) for automotive infotainment and instrument clusters on the safe and secure INTEGRITY run-time foundation. For more than two decades customers have relied on Green Hills Software's functional safety expertise at building high-performance, highly reliable and safe solutions. As the market and industry-leader in real-time operating systems for digital and reconfigurable instrument clusters, Green Hills continues to expand coverage for leading automotive embedded processors, including the complete Renesas R-Car Family of SoCs based on the 64-bit Arm®v8-A processor architecture. The INTEGRITY solution for the R-Car D3 builds on years of successful partnership with Renesas to enable customers with the most complete, most widely adopted, and fully certified functional safety solution for automotive infotainment and HMI available. The wide-ranging benefits of the Green Hills INTEGRITY solution include safe consolidation of multiple processors and accelerators, less expensive bill of materials, faster time-to-certification and trusted run-time determinism. The Renesas R-Car D3 includes a 3D graphics core that enables high-performance human-machine interface (HMI) and realizes significantly reduced system development cost equivalent to those of existing 2D cluster systems. "The increasing use of highly integrated, complex graphical systems in automotive demanded a high-performance solution with basic levels of functional safety," said Amrit Vivekanand, Vice President, Automotive Systems Business Division, Renesas Eectronics Corporation. "The combination of our R-Car D3 SoC with the Green Hills solution allows our customers to meet the stringent software requirements from automotive OEMs. The high quality of support from Green Hills to our customers facing functional safety requirements complements Renesas' own strengths in this area, ensuring our customers get to market faster and more seamlessly than with other solutions." Customers have a comprehensive set of Green Hills capabilities to build from with the Green Hills solution for the R-Car D3:
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