Real-time surround view supporting SOC for automotive ADAS

The path to develop self driving cars is developing what is called advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). ADAS includes improved vision to the driver and also image recognition. Renesas, the world's number one microcontroller and SOC chip maker for automotive electronics has unveiled SOC chip for a high-resolution surround view monitoring with high graphic processing abilities. The R-Car V2H can accept video signal from multiple cameras supporting advanced point-of-view switching which includes rear-view and surround-view capabilities. Renesas claims R-Car V2H offers high quality and reliable performance at low power consumption. The key highlights of this SOC includes: IMR and IMP-X4, graphic processing cores inside this SOC supports ADAS requirements on vehicles targeting new government regulations and insurance safety ratings. The R-Car V2H is said to optimized to reduce memory bandwidth usage and overall latency. These codes offer real-time image processing performance so that camera video outputs are delivered separately in high-resolution or a combined surround view image. The 3-D graphics core supports identification of hazards and is optimized to support texture mapping from the camera feeds. A power cutoff function for the integrated cores, and a DDR3-SDRAM power backup function is also featured in this SOC so that the power consumption is kept ...