Renesas R-Car H1 Automotive SoC

Renesas announced the R-Car H1, their new automotice SoC with 4 Cortex-A9 cores clocked at 1GHz and Imagination Technologies’ SGX-543-MP2 graphics processing unit (GPU) aimed at high-end navigation systems. It also features a Renesas SH-4A high-reliability real-time processing CPU core acting as a multimedia engine (MME) .

The R-Car H1 SoC can also powered with Renesas’ IMP-X3 core (optional), a real-time image processing unit that enables developers to implement augmented reality application such as  360-degree camera views (Thanks to up to four independent input camera channels) and sign recognition.

Renesas Automotive System on Chip Block Diagram
Renesas R-Car H1 Block Diagram

Here’s an excerpt of the press release:

Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) and its subsidiary, Renesas Mobile Corporation, today announced a new member of the R-Car series of automotive systems-on-chip (SoCs), the R-Car H1, capable of delivering up to 11,650 Dhrystone MIPS (DMIPS), and ideal for the high-end car navigation market. The R-Car H1 SoC offers an innovative architecture where the application domain is powered by an ARM® Cortex™A-9 quad-core configuration running at 1 gigahertz (GHz), while the real-time domain is powered by a dedicated multimedia engine (MME) based on Renesas’ SH4A core. The R-Car’s architecture allows customers to implement features such as quick-boot, backup camera support, and media processing using the MME, while the application domain cores can be allocated to run advanced operating systems such as Linux, Windows® Automotive Embedded or QNX®.

You can read the complete press release on Renesas website.

Here are the R-Car H1 specifications provided by Renesas:

Function Specification
Product number R-Car H1 (R8A77790)
Power supply voltage 3.3 V (IO), 1.5 V (DDR3), 1.2 V (Core), 2.5 V (PCIe, MLB), 1.8 V (SDIF UHS-I)
CPU core ARM® Cortex™-A9 Quad (with NEON™) SH-4A core
Maximum operating frequency 1000 MHz 800 MHz
Processing performance 10000 DMIPS 1760 DMIPS, 5600 MFLOPS
Cache memory Instruction cache: 32 KB
Operand cache: 32 KB
Instruction cache: 32 KB
Operand cache: 32 KB
External memory DDR3-SDRAM (DDR)
Maximum operating frequency: 500 MHz
Data bus width: 32 bits × 2 channel (4 GB/s × 2 ch)
Expansion bus Flash ROM and SRAM,
Data bus width: 8 or 16 bits
PCI Express 2.0 (1 lane)
Graphics PowerVR SGX543MP2 (3D)
Renesas graphics processor (2D)
Video Display out × 2 ch (RGB888)
Video input x 2 ch
Video decode processor (H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, VC-1)
Media RAM
JPEG acceralator
TS interface
Video image processing (color conversion, image expansion, reduction, filter processing)
Distortion compensation module (image renderer) × 4 ch
Image recognition processor
Audio Sound processing unit × 2 ch
Sampling rate converter × 10 ch
Sound serial interface × 10 ch
MOST DTCP
Storage interfaces USB 2.0 host interface × 3 ports (w/ PHY)
SD host interface × 4 ch
Multimedia card interface
Serial ATA interface
In-car network automotive peripherals Media local bus (MLB) interface × 1 ch (6-pin / 3-pin interface selectable)
CAN Interface × 2 ch
IEBus interface
GPS baseband module
Security Crypto engine (AES, DES, Hash, RSA)
Secure RAM
Other peripherals DMA controller
LBSC DMAC: 3 ch / SuperHyway-DMAC: 4 ch / HPB DMAC: 39 ch
32-bit timer × 9 ch
PWM timer × 7ch
I2C bus interface × 4 ch
Serial communication interface (SCIF) × 8 ch
Serial peripheral interface (HSPI) × 3 ch
Ethernet controller (IEEE802.3u, RMII, without PHY)
Interrupt controller (INTC)
Clock generator (CPG) with built-in PLL
On-chip debugger interface
Low power mode DPS/VS (CPU core, PowerVR SGX543MP2, VPU, IMP)
AVS (adaptive voltage scaling) function
DDR-SDRAM power supply backup mode
Package 832-pin FCBGA (27 × 27 mm)
Development environment ICE for ARM CPU available from different vendors
Evaluation board A user system development reference platform offering the following features is also available, enabling the users to carry out efficient system development.
(1) Includes car information system-oriented peripheral circuits, providing users with an actual device verification environment.
(2) Can be used as a software development tool for application software, etc.
(3) Allows easy implementation of custom user functions.
Middleware Wide variety of middleware such as H.264, MPEG-4 and VC-1 for video is available to realize complete system concept.

Renesas R-Car H1 will be supported by several operating systems including Linux, Windows Automotive Embedded and QNX. It will also probably be supported by Montavista Genini-compliant Automotive Technology Platform as R-Car M1 (previous version of automotive SoC) is already supported.

Samples of Renesas’ R-Car H1 SoC will be available starting in November 2011. Mass production is scheduled to begin in December 2012 and Renesas expects it to reach a cumulative 100,000 units per month by December 2013.

You can find more information on Renesas R-Car H1 page.

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