ECU platform brings automated driving faster to series production
With the automotive market moving rapidly to make autonomous driving a reality for consumers by 2020, the on-board computing platforms must be able to handle increasing data amounts from sensors. The assessment of these data and and resulting actions require hardware and implementations of software that have high performance and comply with highest safety standards. Furthermore, the broad range of sensors and functions means new challenges for the implementation and integration of software.
The new Highly Automated driving Platform (HADP) is the first outcome of the collaboration between TTTech and Renesas announced in January 2016, and is an extended version of the HAD solution kit released in October 2016. It is based on dual R-Car H3 system-on-chips (SoCs) and the RH850/P1H-C microcontroller (MCU).
The HADP supports an efficient integration process for complex automated driving systems. The platform can be used by Tier 1s and OEMs to immediately prototype their functions in an embedded automotive ECU. It shortens time to market by enabling system developers to verify and integrate software easily on the prototype ECU designed to deliver a faster track to mass production vehicles.
The ECU has been developed for automotive sample grade quality following requirements on thermal design and shock resistance. It is provided in an aluminum casing targeting IP51 level protection against dust and humidity for mounting in the passenger cabin or luggage compartment. The HADP comes with cabling and guidelines for easy adaption inside a vehicle.
The related software, TTIntegration provides the services to run several safety critical applications in parallel on multiple SoCs. A sophisticated partitioning concept ensures that safety related applications cannot be impacted by other applications running at the same time.
Due to a co-simulation environment on standard PC it is possible to develop functions on the embedded HADP platform side-by-side with applications running on a PC. They all can share the same data and services as if it would be a single domain ECU. Seamless integration and testing of all applications are faster and more efficient in comparison to the usual step-by-step solutions.
More information: https://www.renesas.com/en-eu/media/about/press-center/news/2017/news20170105/20170105-hadp-specs.pdf
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