Renesas Electronics and TTTech to collaborate on new ADAS-ECU development platform with high computing performance and state of the art functional safety

Renesas Electronics and TTTech Computertechnik AG (“TTTech”), announce their agreement to collaborate on a development of a new automotive platform solution, aimed at providing a future proof, high-performance advanced electronic control unit (ECU) development platform for driver assistance systems (ADAS). The automotive platform solution will integrate Renesas’ automotive control microcontroller (MCU), the RH850/P1x, and high-performance R-Car system-on-chips (SoCs) with TTTech’s TTIntegration, a software platform, to enable highly complex automotive solutions including highly automated driving. Additionally to the physical integration, the development platform achieves parallel, multi-vendor development and integration of individual software components.

Currently, expectations towards autonomous vehicles are growing and there is a demand for realizing highly automated functions at low power consumption. The increasing abundance of image sensor information, its assessment and resulting actions require hardware and software implementations that have high performance and safety standards. Furthermore, the assembly of a variety of sensors and functions means new challenges for the implementation of software. This is due to the fact that technologies from different suppliers must be developed in parallel and integrated together as smoothly as possible. These different software packages have to share the resources of available CPUs, hardware accelerators and communication networks in operation, without interrupting other applications by blocking shared resources.

The collaboration between Renesas and TTTech is designed to respond to these software implementation challenges. The flexibility during development and product definition will continue to grow as the software components are no longer tied to individual semiconductors, but can run on different MCUs, SoCs, and on one or more ECUs. In order to ensure the necessary safety during operation, various Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) levels (Note 1) on a common automotive open system architecture (AUTOSAR) interface will be made available.

Video link: www.renesas.com/adas-ecu-reference-platform