Renesas Electronics has launched its SDV development platform, R-Car Open Access, RoX.
This platform integrates essential hardware, operating systems, software, and tools for automotive developers to rapidly develop next-generation vehicles with secure and continuous software updates.
Designed for the Renesas R-Car family of system on chips and microcontrollers, the platform includes comprehensive tools for seamless deployment of AI applications. By pre-integrating all fundamental layers required to develop SDVs, RoX reportedly reduces complexities for car OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, saving time and money.
The advent of SDVs represents a major step forward in automotive technology – accelerating toward more driving autonomy, electrification, and connected experiences. Cars need to be aware of their 360-degree surroundings with ASIL D levels of sensing, processing, and control to deliver safety and autonomy applications. The in-cabin experiences for drivers and passengers are being revolutionized. As a result, modern electrical/electronics architecture depends on software to control vehicle functions, manage real-time data networks across different ECU zones, and provide customer differentiation. It has become more difficult to maintain and upgrade these complex software stacks while ensuring the highest levels of safety.
Renesas reports that its customizable solution addresses these challenges by offering a cloud-native development environment along with a simulation platform supporting the software-first approach as well as parallel hardware/software development.
The flexible RoX SDV platform is available in two versions:
+ “RoX Whitebox” is an open-accessible package including royalty-free OS such as Android Automotive OS, FreeRTOS, Linux Xen Zephyr RTOS alongside reference applications designed for specific domain systems.
+ “RoX Licensed” relies on industry-proven commercial solutions like QNX Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System AUTOSAR-compliant SAFERTOS®. Pre-integrated tested running Renesas’ R-Car SoCs/MCUs including validated stacks from STRADVISION ADAS Candera CGI Studio IVI among others easily productizable/customizable depending upon OEM needs.
Operating System/Hypervisor Partners:
+ QNX
+ Red Hat
+ Vector AUTOSAR
+ WITTENSTEIN SAFERTOS®
Software Stack Partners:
+ Candera CGI Studio
+ EPAM AosEdge
+ Excelfore eSync
+ MM Solutions
+ STRADVISION SVNet Nullmax
Development Tools Partners:
+ ASTC VLAB Works
+ Synopsys Virtualizer Development Kit
Cloud Partners
+ AWS Microsoft Azure
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