R-Car S4 Reference Board/Spider
This solution provides a complete development environment with hardware and software for automotive gateway applications to support the new E/E architecture.
Overview
Description
R-Car S4 enables to launch Car Server/CoGW with high performance, high-speed networking, high security and high functional safety levels that are required as E/E architectures evolve into domains and zones. The R-Car S4 solution allows designers to re-use up to 88 percent of software code developed for 3rd generation R-Car SoCs and RH850 MCU applications. The software package supports the real-time cores with various drivers and basic software such as Linux BSP and hypervisors.
Features
- Eight 1.2 GHz Cortex A55 cores, one 1.0 GHz Cortex® R52 dual core (lock-step) and two 400 MHz RH850 G4MH dual cores (lock-step) deliver up to 45 kDMIPS application performance plus greater than 9 kDMIPS real-time performance
- Abundant automotive interfaces including 16x CAN FD, 16x LIN, 8x SENT, 1x FlexRay, 2x 2-lane PCIe 4.0 allow a wide range of connectivity inside the vehicle
- Integrated 3-port Ethernet TSN switch offers bandwidth of 3 x 2.5 Gbps to deliver fast and low-latency communication in the vehicle backbone and to the outside world
- Incorporated 8MB SRAM to execute code on the RH850 G4MH core with low latency
- Multiple hardware security modules (HSMs) and firewall IP provide enhanced security protection against cyber attacks
- R-Car S4 is compliant to ISO-26262 and supports functional safety according to ASIL B and ASIL D
Comparison
Applications
Applications
- Vehicle computers
- Communication gateways
- Domain servers
- Application servers
Design & Development
Software & Tools
Important Note
Please refer to R-Car S4 SDK download guide material (PDF) to download the right packages that fit your needs.
Please refer to R-Car S4 SDK download guide material (PDF) to download the right packages that fit your needs.
Software & Tools
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| Multi-Core Debug and Trace Tool Multiple heterogeneous processor cores (Arm core/ RH850 core) integrated in R-Car S4 can be debugged and traced simultaneously. This allows for shorter time to identify the cause and analyze problems in systems where multiple cores work together to achieve a function.
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IDE and Coding Tool | Renesas |
| Virtual Turnkey Platform The virtual turnkey platform is a software development kit (R-Car SDK) with pretested software libraries and sample code on the virtual development environment R-Car Virtual Platform (VPF).
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Solution Toolkit | Renesas |
| RoX Virtual Platform The RoX Virtual Platform accelerates in-vehicle software development for next-generation vehicles by allowing users to start development activities prior to hardware availability.
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Simulator | Renesas |
| e² studio for R-Car Integrated Software Development Environment. Innovative and Open Development Environment in order to ease SW Development for Computer Vision and Deep Learning Algorithms.
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IDE and Coding Tool | Renesas |
| AosEdge Platform - Distribution Management Platform for Connected Car AosEdge is a V2C (Vehicle to Cloud) platform that can deliver and run software that provides a new UX (user experience) for connected cars.
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Software Package | EPAM Systems, Inc. |
| Renesas MCAL Renesas' MCAL (Microcontroller Abstraction Layer) software drivers can be obtained as a stand-alone software package.
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Software Package | Renesas |
| Debug and Trace Tools for Multi-Devices These tools facilitate the analysis and identification of the causes of problems that occur in the software that operates cooperatively on the CPUs of multiple devices.
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IDE and Coding Tool | Renesas |
| Co-Simulation Environment for Multi-Devices This is a multi-device operation simulation environment that integrates a group of simulators such as the R-Car Virtual Platform that are provided for the individual devices to enable coordinated operation.
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Simulator | MathWorks, Australian Semiconductor Technology Company, Synopsys |
| High-Speed Simulator for Software Development A high-speed simulation environment based on QEMU.
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Simulator | Renesas |
| Distributed Processing Software for Multi-Devices This software maximizes the performance of hardware by distributing the functions of the application to multiple SoCs or CPUs and HWIPs inside the microcontroller.
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Solution Toolkit | Renesas |
| R-Car S4 Whitebox SDK The R-Car S4 Whitebox SDK is an integrated development platform that accelerates the development of connected services applications. All software is provided as an all-in-one package under a Free of Charge (FoC) license.
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Software Package | Renesas |
| Model-Based Development Environment for RH850, R-Car Family [Embedded Target for Virtual Platform] Embedded Target for RH850 Virtual Platform is a development environment that generates peripheral code for target devices from Simulink® models and enables cooperative verification as Virtual Hardware In the Loop Simulation (vHILS) in a virtual environment with Simulink.
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Model-Based Development | Renesas |
| RoX Software Development Kit The RoX SDK is an easy-to-start & easy-to-use development framework for the R-Car SoCs.
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Software Package | Renesas |
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Sample Code
Boards & Kits
R-Car S4 Starter Kit
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...
Featured Documents:
Vehicle Computer Generation 4
The VC4 is based on a complete Renesas chipset. The centerpiece is the R-Car S4 with 8x Cortex®A55 cores, 1x Cortex® R52 core 2x RH850 G4MH delivering up to 27K DMIPS...
Featured Documents:
Videos & Training
e²studio for R-Car - RAM/IO Monitoring with the Real-Time Performance Monitor View
This video shows you how to set up a simple project to debug and monitor its memories using the RPM RAM I/O monitor feature in Real-time Performance Monitor view on e² studio for R-Car.
Video List
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