Automotive Communication Gateway Platform

This solution provides a complete reference design with hardware and software for automotive gateway applications to support the electrical/electronic (E/E) architecture. It provides an integrated system that controls an ever-increasing number of vehicle functions in all areas of vehicle control.

System Benefits​:

• Reduces the board size and BOM costs through MCU core integration into the system-on-chip (SoC) and uses a single board to control both the MCU domain and application SoC domain, which previously required separate devices.​
• The reference board consists of a CPU board with a core SoC, power management IC (PMIC) and memory, and an interface board, enabling support for a variety of networks.
  • Supports 16 channels of CAN FD (can be used as 16 channels of local interconnect network (LIN) and 8 channels of single edge nibble transmission (SENT) by multi-function), 2 channels of FlexRay, 2 channels of PCIe v4.0 x2 lanes, and 3 channels of 5G-USXGMII for Ethernet.​
• The core system is realized by installing the R-Car S4 automotive SoC, LPDDR4x-3200 memory, and HyperFlash™ memory on the CPU board.
• Flexible clock generator capable of generating 12 outputs, PCIe Gen 1-4 clocks for automotive applications, and Universal Flash Storage (UFS) clocks to support multiple channels in a single device.