Renesas selects ARM’s big.LITTLE processor for new automotive SoC

Capable of delivering more than 25,000DMI/s, the R-Car H2 is designed to provide high performance 3d graphics capabilities for high end multimedia and navigation automotive systems. The device is one of the first commercial chips to implement ARM's big.LITTLE processor configuration, which integrates a Cortex A-15 quad core configuration running an additional Cortex A-7 quad core processor. Media hardware accelerators enable features such as 4 x hd 1080p video en/decoding including Blu-Ray support at 60 frames per second, image/voice recognition and high resolution 3d graphics with almost no cpu load. The R-Car H2 also features a PowerVR Series6 G6400 gpu from Imagination Technologies. Its bus architecture includes dedicated cpu and IP caches to reduce ddr3 memory bandwidth consumption. Advanced automotive interfaces like Ethernet AVB, MOST-150 and CAN and mass storage interfaces such as SATA, USB3.0/2.0, SDcard and PCI Express are supported.