Duo collaborate on connected cockpit vehicle

The truck is based on the Renesas R-Car H3 automotive computing system-on-chip (SoC), and Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY RTOS and INTEGRITY Multivisor secure virtualisation, and features safe and secure consolidation of ISO 26262-safety critical applications with Android infotainment and cockpit features. The R-Car H3 is 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 Renesas autonomy, Renesas aims to contribute to a safe and secure society in the autonomous driving era.

The Renesas Connected Cockpit Vehicle is a development platform designed to enable creation, integration, and testing of hardware and software components in a real vehicle under real-world constraints and conditions. Along with key partners such as Green Hills Software, Renesas will continue to integrate new software and hardware components into this platform, including the latest in virtualisation and security systems.

“With the Renesas Connected Cockpit Vehicle, we are not only bringing virtualisation and other next-gen features into a real-world setting, we are reducing the complexities and risks of connected cockpit design for the automotive ecosystem,” said Amrit Vivekanand, Vice President, Automotive Systems Business Division, at Renesas. “Our collaboration with Green Hills on this type of integrated development platform allows us to provide customers with truly unique value propositions as the automotive industry shifts from prototype to production ready.”

“Renesas and Green Hills have a long history together of helping customers build successful systems in many parts of the vehicle, and we are pleased with the collaboration around the Renesas Connected Cockpit Vehicle,” said Matthew Slager, Director of Business Development at Green Hills Software. “The vehicle is an excellent platform to demonstrate how INTEGRITY’s separation technology enables vehicle manufacturers to reduce the cost and complexity to build software-defined cockpits for a wide range of vehicle models.”

The Renesas Connected Cockpit Vehicle integrates both traditional and cutting-edge cockpit systems into a single drivable vehicle system, including: 

• Software defined radio
• Multimedia 
• Navigation 
• Driver facial recognition and preference application
• Seamless multi-operating OS system (OS) display sharing integration 
• Vehicle functions such as HVAC

In the Renesas Connected Cockpit Vehicle, the INTEGRITY RTOS and its Multivisor virtualisation extension are the trusted foundation of the software-defined cockpit, allowing ISO 26262-certified safety-critical application code to safely and securely coexist with general-purpose code or guest operating systems with freedom from interference on a single R-Car H3 SoC:

• As a guest OS of INTEGRITY Multivisor, the Android-based centre console display features touch-screen multimedia, climate control, navigation, and cloud-connected vehicle maintenance monitoring, and driver biometric profiles
• Multi-function ISO 26262-certified safety-critical instrument cluster powered by 3D GPU-accelerated OpenGL graphics, combining both INTEGRITY and guest OS content
• Safe and secure shared GPU and displays between Android apps and ISO 26262 safety-critical instrument cluster

Green Hills will demonstrate the Connected Cockpit Vehicle at its booth (LVCC North Hall, booth 3110). Renesas will demonstrate the Connected Cockpit Vehicle at the Renesas Advanced and Autonomous Test Track and Future Ready Solutions Showcase at CES 2018, 9th to 12th January 2018, in Las Vegas.