Renesas Electronics's high-performance R-Car V3M SoC and HELLA Aglaia open applications help differentiate products and shorten time-to-market
HELLA Aglaia, the world's leading developer of semiconductor solutions and a leading developer of intelligent vision sensor systems, today announced the availability of a scalable front-end for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autopilot Camera solution that incorporates Renesas' high-performance, low-power image recognition system-on-chip (SoC) R-Car V3M and HELLA's proven camera software to meet the new SAE International J30162 standard for partial automation of level 2 and conditional automation of level 3. The solution is designed to increase the scalability so that system designers can build multiple front-facing cameras and a new car evaluation plan for up to three levels of application NCAP, Note 1).
In the next few years, Vision Sensor is expected to become one of the main requirements of NCAP, Renesas Electronics and HELLA Aglaia's strong cooperation will help open up the front camera application market.Stanau Analytics Analytics autonomous driving car service director Ian Riches said, 'In the next five years, demand for front-facing cameras is expected to exceed 200 million units driven by strong market demand for NCAP safety functions such as automatic emergency braking, lane departure warnings and traffic sign recognition. Vendors are looking for performance-based and cost-effective, open and proven solutions that allow for the freedom to configure a front-facing camera with its own features.
Jean-Francois Chouteau, Vice President of Renesas Electronics Global ADAS Center, said: "The NCAP front camera application market is growing rapidly and customers are in urgent need of an open and proven solution. To better respond to our customers' needs, we have decided to extend the HELLA Aglaia Sophisticated camera software in combination with the Renesas autonomyTM Platform, enabling customers to deploy differentiated market selling points in their applications to reduce risk and reduce time-to-market with new solutions.
Kay Talmi, Managing Director, HELLA Aglaia, said: "With the Renesas autonomy Platform, Renesas Electronics offers an open, scalable platform that matches our open and proven software to help OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers develop low-end-to- High-end applications add value with their own software The R-Car V3M is optimized for front-facing cameras and works perfectly with our applications for NCAP applications. '
The Renesas Electronics R-Car V3M SoC implements an innovative, energy-efficient computer vision platform using different accelerators, including the Multipurpose Data Transfer Pipeline Engine (IMP) and Computer Vision Engine (CVE), enabling the R-Car V3M to run the Convolutional Nerve Networking, object classification and algorithms for managing optical flow and object detection, etc. The R-Car V3M also has an integrated ISP and a single DDR3L memory channel to further reduce costs. R-Car V3M is a Renesas Electronics product for ADAS and autopilot development Part of a breakthrough platform, the Renesas autonomy Platform, which offers a complete end-to-end solution from the cloud to sensing and vehicle control.
HELLA Aglaia's software solutions will reduce development time and process risk for the next wave of front-facing camera customers HELLA Aglaia offers a flexible and portable platform as a second-tier provider of industry-proven level 2 and 3 auto-driving camera software Software that can be combined with Tier 1 suppliers or OEM software IP to enable customers to focus on developing a unique selling point (USP) that extends from low-cost NCAP to 3-level autopilot camera applications.
Availability The Renesas R-Car V3M is available now. The application software delivered by HELLA Aglaia is scheduled to be available in the first quarter of 2018.
(Note 1) NCAP (New Car Assessment Program): A government-implemented car safety program to assess the performance of new car designs in response to various safety threats.2 The new SAE International Standard J3016: Road Motor Vehicles Auto Driving system terminology classification and definition, providing a uniform classification system and the corresponding definition, to determine the six levels of automated driving from 'non-automated' to 'fully automated'.