Flexibility and Reduced Cost for Next-Generation Automotive Designs
Green Hills Software, the largest independent software vendor for the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced the addition of virtualized, accelerated graphics support for Renesas R-Car H2 processors in its INTEGRITY® Multivisor™ virtualization solution, targeting next-generation graphics-intensive automotive applications, such as reconfigurable clusters, navigation systems, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and infotainment. The technology enables increased flexibility of design choices and reduced cost through hardware consolidation.
The update to INTEGRITY Multivisor leverages work performed by Green Hills Software, Renesas, and Imagination Technologies, enabling a powerful virtualization solution that includes top-end graphics performance as well as strong isolation between safety-critical and general purpose workloads. For example, INTEGRITY Multivisor on Renesas R-Car H2 enables a real-time ADAS subsystem and a Yocto Linux-based cluster subsystem to execute concurrently, both environments taking advantage of the high-end graphics performance of the H2’s integrated Imagination Technologies PowerVR G6400 GPU while ensuring Yocto cannot impact the ADAS functions executing natively on the INTEGRITY safety-certified microkernel.
“Next-generation automotive intelligence presents challenges and opportunities that demand powerful, flexible, scalable, cost-effective run-time software platforms,” commented Tim Reed, vice president and general manager, Advanced Products, Green Hills Software. “The combination of the Renesas R-Car H2 hardware platform, its virtualization-friendly IMG GPU, and the INTEGRITY Multivisor solution’s advanced real-time virtualization architecture and safety-certification pedigree provides designers with state-of-the-art automotive run-time platform technology.”
Key capabilities of Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY Multivisor for Renesas R-Car platforms include:
- Support for Yocto Linux and other guest operating systems
- High-performance, virtualized access to PowerVR G6400 GPU
- ISO 26262 safety-certifiable run-time platform for ADAS and other critical systems
- Virtualization optimized for ARM Virtualization Extensions included in R-Car H2’s Cortex A15-based cores
