Mr. Masayasu
Yoshida of Renesas reports
RENESAS AND BLACKBERRY DELIVER R-CAR BASED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT INTEGRATING VIRTUALIZATION, FUNCTIONAL SAFETY, AND SECURITY
Renesas Electronics Corp., a premier supplier of
advanced semiconductor solutions, and BlackBerry Ltd. are expanding their partnership to offer an
integrated virtualization, functional safety and secure development
environment for the Renesas R-Car system-on-chip (SoC) devices. Using
BlackBerry's QNX software, it was developed as part of the companies'
continuing strategic relationship to advance autonomous and connected
driving technology.
Available today, the new development environment is an expansion of
Renesas's software
package lineup for the R-Car automotive computing platform. It
allows automotive cockpit system designers to quickly develop advanced
cockpit systems and improve the user experience.
The development environment features both the high reliability and rich
graphics functions required for integrated cockpit systems. It is based
on the Renesas R-Car family and features BlackBerry's
QNX software development platform 7.0 and QNX Hypervisor 2.0
virtualization software. It also provides access to the extensive set of
software products developed by BlackBerry, allowing designers to
leverage the multimedia and HMI-related (human machine interface) software for cockpit graphics
systems development.
The development environment takes full advantage of the virtualization
functions available in Renesas R-Car devices. This contributes to
building functionally safe digital cockpit systems by isolating
functions such as cluster and navigation, thereby ensuring that a fault
in one area cannot corrupt another. The QNX Hypervisor 2.0 allows
disparate guest operating systems such as Android and Linux to execute
independently on a single R-Car device.
"We are very proud to build upon our long-standing relationship with
Renesas to provide a leading safety-certified development environment
solution for the Renesas R-Car system-on-chip (SoC) devices with
BlackBerry QNX software," said John Wall, senior vice-president and head
of QNX at BlackBerry. "Together, BlackBerry and Renesas are
enabling our customers to rapidly introduce safe and secure,
high performance cockpit systems."
"The combination of BlackBerry and Renesas technology is used in many
volume production programs globally. This speaks directly to the quality
of the relationship between our companies," said
Masayasu
Yoshida, senior director of the automotive technical customer engagement
division at Renesas. "BlackBerry QNX software is always highly
reliable. For Renesas, a company that strives to provide safe and secure
solutions, BlackBerry is the best-possible partner and we plan to
continue our joint development efforts moving forward."
The demand for highly reliable, fully integrated hardware and software
is rapidly increasing in markets like China, where there is a need for
the fastest-possible development velocity in connected transportation.
Moving forward, Renesas and BlackBerry will continue to accelerate their
development of integrated cockpit systems and connected car systems,
while strengthening their joint efforts for advanced driver assistance
systems (ADAS) and full-scale electronic control unit (ECU) integration.
About BlackBerry
Ltd.
BlackBerry is an enterprise software and services company focused on
securing and managing IoT (Internet of things) end points. The company does this with
BlackBerry Secure, an end-to-end enterprise of things platform,
comprising its enterprise communication and collaboration software and
safety-certified embedded solutions. Based in Waterloo, Ont., the
company was founded in 1984 and operates in North America, Europe, Asia,
Australia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa.
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