April 20, 2018, Beijing, China - The world's largest supplier of EDA software for chip design automation and the world's largest chip interface IP provider, Synopsys (NASDAQ: SNPS), the global leader in software quality and security solutions, Announced that it has successfully cooperated with Renesas Electronics to contribute to the development of Renesas Electronics' latest R-Car V3H System-on-Chip (SoC). The R-Car Series SoC is the core SoC family of Renesas Electronics autonomyTM platform. Open, innovative And the trusted Renesas Electronics autonomyTM platform provides a wide range of end-to-end automotive solutions, from secure cloud connectivity, sensors to vehicle control. Synopsys supports ultra-high-performance R-Car V3H SoC hardware accelerator development. The SoC hardware accelerator provides cutting-edge computer vision capabilities for smart cameras in 3- and 4-level self-driving cars.
Self-driving cars must be able to sense the environment, control the car body and communicate synchronously with the cloud. Implementing these functions requires multiple technologies, and each technology must remain highly reliable to be able to synchronize without any defects.
Synopsys offers the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of certified tools and process products, as well as downloadable feature safety suites that enable automotive OEMs, semiconductor and component suppliers to easily and quickly deploy their safety-related ASIL A to ASIL D design.
Renesas Electronics' R-Car V3H SoC includes a new, ultra-high-efficiency hardware accelerator for the acceleration of high-performance convolutional neural networks (CNN). Real-time detection of traffic signs, lanes, pedestrians, vehicles and other obstacles all require Extremely high performance. The front camera is mounted beside the windshield and in direct sunlight, so low power consumption is crucial to further reduce heat emission. Synopsys is clock data concurrency optimization (CCD), wire type data synthesis and Logic refactoring and other functions realize the entire process optimization, providing high performance for computer vision technology while ensuring low power consumption and high level of functional safety.
Masahiro Suzuki, director of automotive products and engineering at Renesas Electronics Automotive Solutions Division, said: 'We are very pleased to work with Synopsys to develop our R-Car SoC family of products. Synopsys helps us accelerate product development and time to market. By Synopsys Designing platforms to develop automotive-grade products, Renesas Electronics developed the SoC to achieve ultra-high performance with the lowest power consumption and the smallest mounting area. This cooperation also enabled our R-Car V3H SoC to successfully add innovative hardware accelerators. , To achieve ultra-low power CNN processing.
Michael Jackson, vice president of marketing and business development at Synopsys Design Group, said: 'Using an end-to-end solution from Renesas Electronics' own platform, automotive system manufacturers can achieve functional safety and development flexibility. By adopting our solutions to develop The industry-leading R-Car V3H, Renesas Electronics has improved their development efficiency and shortened the development time of its highly scalable SoC.