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Renesas Electronics and Green Hills Software Collaborate on Connected Cockpit Vehicle

Enables Safe, Secure and Immersive Software-Defined Automotive Cockpit for CES 2018

TOKYO, Japan and SANTA BARBARA, CA — December 21, 2017 — Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, and Green Hills Software, the global leader in high-assurance real-time operating systems and virtualization, today announced their collaboration for the Renesas Connected Cockpit Vehicle developed with a Dodge Ram truck. Stationed in both companies’ areas at CES® 2018, the Dodge Ram 1500 truck includes many new immersive technologies and integrates production-ready automotive-grade hardware, based on the Renesas R-Car H3automotive computing system-on-chip (SoC), and Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY® RTOS and INTEGRITY Multivisor™ secure virtualization, 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 virtualization and security systems.

“With the Renesas Connected Cockpit Vehicle, we are not only bringing virtualization and other next-generation 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 the INTEGRITY 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 system (OS) display sharing integration
  • Vehicle functions such as HVAC

In the Renesas Connected Cockpit Vehicle, the INTEGRITY RTOS and its Multivisor virtualization 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 center 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, January 9-12, 2018, in Las Vegas.

About Green Hills Software
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software is the largest independent software vendor for the Internet of Things (IoT). In 2008, the Green Hills INTEGRITY®-178 RTOS was the first and only operating system to be certified by NIAP (National Information Assurance Partnership comprised of NSA & NIST) to EAL 6+, High Robustness, the highest level of security ever achieved for any software product. Our open architecture integrated development solutions address deeply embedded, absolute security and high-reliability applications for the military/avionics, medical, industrial, automotive, networking, consumer and other markets that demand industry-certified solutions. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software atwww.ghs.com.

About Renesas Electronics Corporation
Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) delivers trusted embedded design innovation with complete semiconductor solutions that enable billions of connected, intelligent devices to enhance the way people work and live—securely and safely. A global leader in microcontrollers, analog, power, and SoC products and integrated platforms, Renesas provides the expertise, quality, and comprehensive solutions for a broad range of Automotive, Industrial, Home Electronics, Office Automation and Information Communication Technology applications to help shape a limitless future. Learn more atrenesas.com.

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