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Overview

The R-Car S4 Starter Kit is a low-cost, readily available development board for building software using the Renesas R-Car S4 system on chip (SoC). The SoC delivers high computing performance and an array of communication features for both cloud communication and safe vehicle control. The new starter kit is a less-expensive and readily-available option compared to the existing R-Car S4 Development Board, which provides a full-scale development environment including an evaluation board and software. Engineers can take advantage of the new kit to easily start their initial evaluation of car servers, connected gateways, connectivity modules and more, for rapid application development.

Features

  • Simplifies the process of establishing open-source automotive Linux environments
  • Designed to help engineers new to automotive software quickly set up automotive Linux environments, with cost-effective pricing that enables one kit per developer
  • 8x 1.2 GHz Cortex A55 cores, 1x 1.0 GHz Cortex® R52 dual core (lock-step), and 2x 400MHz RH850 G4MH dual cores (lock-step) delivering up to 27kDMIPS application performance plus greater than 5.3kDMIPS real-time performance
  • 2x Ethernet TSN
  • 2x CAN FD, 1x LIN
  • 128GiB UFS
  • 64MiB quad SPI flash memory

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Add-on Hardware

Additional boards that work with this platform. Some may be required for full functionality or to evaluate specific features.

Vehicle Computer Generation 4

VC4 Active
Evaluate next‑generation automotive E/E architectures using a high‑performance vehicle computer built around R‑Car S4.
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R-Car S4 Development Board/Spider

Develop next-generation automotive gateway applications using the R-Car S4 Spider board. The platform supports modern E/E architectures with a complete hardware and software environment.

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eLinux Site

R-Car S4 Starter Kit board information and Yocto Linux BSP/Hypervisor Xen BSP are available from the eLinux site. See Resources and Software & Tools section.

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Knowledge Base

  1. Where can I find the R-Car S4 device manual?

    Download the "R-Car S4 User's Manual (Overview)" below.https://www.renesas.com/us/en/products/automotive-products/automotive-system-chips-socs/y-ask-rcar-s4-1000base-t-r-car-s4-starter-kit#document

    Nov 14, 2023
  2. Where can I find the R-Car S4 Starter Kit board manual and schematic?

    Download the "R-Car S4 Starter Kit Hardware Manual" below. The Schematic is bundled with the Hardware Manual.https://www.renesas.com/us/en/products/automotive-products/automotive-system-chips-socs/y-ask-rcar-s4-1000base-t-r-car-s4-starter-kit ...

    Nov 14, 2023
  3. Where can I find register information for FPGA?

    Download the "R-Car S4 Starter Kit Hardware Manual" below. The register information is bundled with the Hardware Manual.https://www.renesas.com/us/en/products/automotive-products/automotive-system-chips-socs/y-ask-rcar-s4-1000base-t-r-car-s4-starter ...

    Nov 14, 2023
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