Renesas and Green Hills drive automotive microcontrollers forward
Industry's Flash and optimised development tools combine to create the best-of-class
Renesas Electronics and Green Hills Software have aligned to develop Renesas's new RH850 family of automotive microcontrollers (MCU).
Green Hills Software's MULTI multicore debugger, optimising compiler, Time Machine suite and processor probes will target the new RH850core, including its high-speed floating-point unit (FPU), enhancedperipherals, and multicore debug and high-speed processor traceinterfaces.
Today's automotive MCU developers are increasingly looking to satisfy functional safety requirements from ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Level) A to ASIL D together with lower power consumption requirements in a high-performance package.
Renesas' RH850 family will include multiple application-tailored product series including advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), supportedby Green Hills Software's optimising tool chain and debugger,allowing customers to select the product that matches their specific requirements. The RH850 family will extend from single core tomulticore with dual core lockstep allowing for flexible functional safety capabilities. Developers require a correspondingly reliable and highly capable set of development tools.
"Renesas' new RH850 family of MCU addresses major trends of the changingautomotive market across all car segments," said HisashiTakahashi, general manager, MCU Software division, RenesasElectronics Corporation. "Our collaboration with Green Hills Software allows us to provide our automotive customers with anoptimised development suite that emphasises the strengths of our newRH850."
Past collaboration between Renesas and Green Hills Software has produced optimising compilers that offer tailored optimisation for the RH850family of MCUs.
The Green Hills Software tools employ thousands of processor-independent and processor-dependent optimisations, including advanced techniques such as an advance dual-issue pipeline scheduler, inter-procedural optimizations, link-time automatic addressing mode optimization and code factoring.
The result is technology that generates the fastest and smallest code for the RH850 family.
