Virtual development environment for fast automotive application software development

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Renesas has launched a virtual development environment that enables advance development and operational evaluation of automotive application software to support the latest requirements of electrical/electronic architecture (E/E architecture).

www.newelectronics.co.uk, Apr. 13, 2022 – 

The new environment includes a Virtual Turnkey Platform, which will allow engineers to develop application software before devices or evaluation boards are available. Additionally, the environment offers a Multicore Debug and Trace Tool, which enables users to analyse and evaluate the operation of their software as if it were running on an actual chip.

These tools will allow customers to kick-start development and get to market faster with leading-edge software.

"With the evolution of E/E architecture, there is an increasing demand for software design that can maximise performance at a system level. At the same time, the increasing time and cost associated with software development have become a big challenge," said Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Vice President, Automotive Software Development Division at Renesas. "Our integrated software development environment that can be used across gateway systems, ADAS, and xEV development, enables customers to benefit from the scalability of Renesas products such as R-Car and the RH850 family for both software and hardware development."

The Virtual Turnkey platform consists of the R-Car Virtual Platform (R-Car VPF) development environment and a software development kit (R-Car SDK) that includes pre-tested software libraries and sample code. The R-Car VPF is based on Virtualizer Development Kits (VDKs) from Synopsys, and integrates virtual models of intellectual property (IP) specific to R-Car to customize for R-Car devices.

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