RTOS now supports Renesas’ R-Car E2 SoCs

24th February 2015

Nat Bowers

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Green Hills Software has announced that its INTEGRITY RTOS now supports Renesas Electronics’ R-Car E2 SoC devices. By targeting the Integrated Cockpit with the addition of the R-Car E2, Green Hills Software continues its commitment to support Renesas’ entire R-Car series of processors.

In cooperation with Renesas, Green Hills is proud to continue its commitment to create an ‘INTEGRITY for R-Car’ support package for all of the R-Car series of SoCs. The addition of support for the recently released R-Car E2 device continues that cooperation. By utilising INTEGRITY, the R-Car E2 platform enables automotive OEMs and Tier 1s to easily construct an integrated cockpit solution, combining multiple streams of information from multiple devices into a single high quality and informative experience for the modern driver.

Masayasu Yoshida, Department Manager, Automotive Information Strategy, Automotive Information Systems, Renesas, comments: “Renesas is pleased to see Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY RTOS supporting the R-Car E2 product line. Combining Green Hills leadership in the automotive industry for RTOS and functional safety and security requirements with our leadership as the world’s number one automotive semiconductor supplier allows us to provide automotive manufacturers with the industry’s best platform to satisfy the functional safety and security, reliability and high-performance requirements demanded by the industry.”

Key capabilities of Green Hills Software’s solution for the R-Car E2 include: hardware accelerated 3D graphics running natively on INTEGRITY; industry-leading performance and proven support for the Cortex-A7 processor; Green Hills Software's FIPS 140-2 and NSA Suite B cryptographic library optimised for ARM architecture; and complete ISO 26262 certification and lifecycle support for both development tools and RTOS.

“Our ongoing partnership with Renesas continues to allow both our companies to deliver the most advanced and safest automotive solutions on the market. By supporting the industry's most trusted real-time operating system - INTEGRITY - and its award winning security architecture, the R-Car family of processors is an ideal platform for the high-performance integrated automotive cockpit OEMs expect to deliver to customers while meeting the industry’s high standard of security and functional safety," added Tim Reed, Vice President, Advanced Products, Green Hills Software.

INTEGRITY releases supporting the R-Car series of devices are available from Green Hills now.