Overview

Description

The R-Car E3e is an upscale to the R-Car D3e SoC for 3D graphics clusters, that brings enhanced 3D graphics rendering performance. As part of the Renesas R-Car family, this SoC also offers the functional safety and security functions that are essential for connected cars as the role of the human-machine interface (HMI) becomes more important. With these features, the R-Car E3e simplifies the task of developing robust systems capable of dealing safely with both malfunctions and cyberattacks
The single-chip design enables the integration of a variety of systems, significantly reducing overall system development costs and achieving substantial space savings. The R-Car E3e shares the scalability of the R-Car H3e and R-Car M3e for integrated cockpits as well as the R-Car D3e for instrument clusters, establishing the highest level of software reuse. Renesas partner companies with extensive experience in the instrument cluster field are ready to provide operating systems (OS) and HMI tools in addition to system integration support. This greatly reduces the development burden, extending software support to a wide range of vehicles.

Features

  • Suitable solution for large panel full graphics cluster system
  • Performance and functions optimized for entry-level integrated cockpit systems
  • Compatibility with previous products enables use of existing ecosystem and access to over 250* R-Car Consortium partners (*as of Oct, 2018)

Specifications

  • Product No: R-Car E3e (R8A779M6)
  • Power supply voltage: 3.3/1.8V (IO), 2.5V (Ether), 1.35V (DDR3L), 1.03V (core)
  • CPU core
    • Arm® Cortex®-A53 Dual
    • Arm® Cortex®-R7 Dual Lock-Step
  • Cache memory
    • Arm® Cortex®-A53 Dual
      • L1 Instruction cache: 32KB
      • L1 Operand cache: 32KB
      • L2 cache: 256KB
    • Arm® Cortex®-R7 Dual Lock-Step
      • L1 Instruction cache: 32KB
      • L1 Operand cache: 32KB
  • External memory
    • DDR3L-SDRAM
    • Approved standards: DDR3L-1866
    • Data bus width: 32 bits x 1 ch
  • Graphics
    • 3D Graphics Processing Unit
    • Imagination Technologies' PowerVR® Series 8XE GE8300
    • 2D Graphics Processing Unit
  • Video
    • Display Out x 2 ch (LVDS x 2 or LVDS + Digital RGB)
    • Video Input x 2 ch (MIPI CSI2, Digital RGB)
    • Up and down scaling, 1-D LUT/3D-LUT/1D-Histogram/2D-Histgram, color conversion, I/P conversion, super resolution, rotate, ordered dithering, sharpness, lossless compression/decompression, lossy compression
    • Distortion compensation module (IMR-LX4)
  • Video output check
    • Display Output Compare Unit (DISCOM)
    • Video-Output-Checker (VOC)
  • Audio
    • Audio DSP
    • Sampling rate converter × 10 ch
    • Serial sound interface × 10 ch
  • Storage interfaces
    • USB 3.0 host interface (DRD) × 1 port (wPHY)
    • USB 2.0 host/function interface × 1 port (wPHY)
    • SD host interface × 3 ch (SDR104)
    • Multimedia card interface × 1 ch
    • PCI Express (1 lane) x 1 ch
    • Raw NAND Flash memory interface x 1 ch
  • In-car network and automotive peripherals
    • Media local bus (MLB) interface × 1 ch (3-pin interface)
    • Controller area network (CAN-FD support) interface × 2ch
    • Ethernet AVB 1.0-compatible MAC built in
    • Interface: RGMII
    • Ethernet AVB (802.1BA)
      • IEEE802.1BA
      • IEEE802.1AS
      • IEEE802.1Qav
      • IEEE1722
  • Security
    • Crypto engine (AES, DES, Hash, RSA)
    • SystemRAM
  • Other peripherals
    • SYS-DMAC x 48 ch, Realtime-DMAC x 16 ch, Audio-DMAC x 16 ch, Audio(peripheral)-DMAC x 29 ch
    • 32-bit timer x 26 ch
    • PWM timer × 7 ch
    • I2C bus interface × 9 ch
    • Serial communication interface (SCIF) × 11 ch
    • SPI multi I/O bus controller (RPC) × 2 ch (HyperFlash™/QSPI support)
    • Clock-synchronized serial interface (MSIOF) × 4 ch (SPI/IIS)
    • Digital radio interface (DRIF) × 4 ch
  • Low power mode
    • Dynamic Power Shutdown
    • DFS (Dynamic Frequency Scaling), DDR-SDRAM power supply backup mode
  • Package: 552-pin Flip chip BGA (21 mm x 21 mm, 0.8 mm pitch)
  • Development environment: ICE for Arm CPU available from tool vendors
  • Evaluation board: A user system development reference platform with the following features is also available to enable the users to carry out efficient system development.
    • Incorporates car information system-oriented peripheral circuits, providing users with an actual device verification environment.
    • Can be used as a software development tool for application software, etc.
    • Allows easy implementation of custom user functions.
  • Software Platform
    • Supported OS: Linux, QNX® Neutrino® RTOS, Integrity® etc.
    • OpenGL ES3.1 3D graphics library, Wide variety of H.265, H.264, MPEG-4 and VC-1 for video compliant with OpenMAX IL I/F in addition to BSPs compliant with OSs standard API are available to realize complete system concept.

Arm and Cortex are registered trademarks of Arm Limited.
PowerVR is a trademark of Imagination Technologies Limited.
QNX, neutrino and Blackberry are trademarks from BlackBerry Limited, and are used with permission from QNX Software System Limited.
Green Hills Software and INTEGRITY are trademarks or registered trademarks of Green Hills Software, Inc. in the U.S. and/or internationally.
HyperFlash is a trademark of Spansion LLC in the United States and other countries.
All names of other products or services mentioned in this press release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Comparison

Applications

Applications

  • Digital instrument cluster
  • Display audio system
  • Driver Monitoring System
  • LED matrix light

Documentation

Design & Development

Software & Tools

Software Downloads

Type Title Date
Software & Tools - Software Log in to Download ZIP 185.76 MB
Software & Tools - Evaluation Software Log in to Download ZIP 219.86 MB
Software & Tools - Other Log in to Download ZIP 162 KB
Software & Tools - Other Log in to Download ZIP 428.12 MB
Software & Tools - Other Log in to Download ZIP 3.37 MB
Software & Tools - Evaluation Software Log in to Download ZIP 2.35 MB
Software & Tools - Other Log in to Download ZIP 2.45 MB
Software & Tools - Other Log in to Download ZIP 8.87 MB
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