Renesas and BlackBerry Deliver R-Car Based Development Environment Integrating Virtualization, Functional Safety, and Security
October 23 2018 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Companies Expand Partnership To Enable
Leading-Edge Automotive Systems
Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723), a premier supplier
of advanced semiconductor solutions, and BlackBerry Limited (NYSE:
BB; TSX: BB) today announced they are expanding their partnership
to offer an integrated virtualization, functional safety and secure
development environment for the Renesas R-Car system-on-chip (SoC)
devices. Using BlackBerry’s QNX software, it was developed as part
of the companies’ ongoing strategic relationship to advance
autonomous and connected driving technology.
Available today, the new development environment is an expansion
of Renesas’ software package lineup for the R-Car automotive
computing platform. It allows automotive cockpit system designers
to quickly develop advanced cockpit systems and improve the user
experience.
The development environment features both the high reliability
and rich graphics functions required for integrated cockpit
systems. It is based on the Renesas R-Car family, and features
BlackBerry's QNX Software Development Platform 7.0 and QNX
Hypervisor 2.0 virtualization software. It also provides access to
the extensive set of software products developed by BlackBerry,
allowing designers to leverage the multimedia and HMI-related
software for cockpit graphics systems development.
The development environment takes full advantage of the
virtualization functions available in Renesas R-Car devices. This
contributes to building functionally safe digital cockpit systems
by isolating functions such as cluster and navigation, thereby
ensuring that a fault in one area cannot corrupt another. The QNX
Hypervisor 2.0 allows disparate guest operating systems such as
Android and Linux to execute independently on a single R-Car
device.
“We are very proud to build upon our long-standing relationship
with Renesas to provide a leading safety-certified development
environment solution for the Renesas R-Car system-on-chip (SoC)
devices with BlackBerry QNX software,” said John Wall, Senior Vice
President and Head of QNX at BlackBerry. “Together,
BlackBerry and Renesas are enabling our customers to rapidly
introduce safe and secure, high-performance cockpit systems.”
“The combination of BlackBerry and Renesas technology is used in
many volume production programs globally. This speaks directly to
the quality of the relationship between our companies,” said
Masayasu Yoshida, Senior Director of Automotive Technical Customer
Engagement Division at Renesas. “BlackBerry QNX software is
always highly reliable. For Renesas, a company that strives to
provide safe and secure solutions, BlackBerry is the best possible
partner and we plan to continue our joint development efforts
moving forward.”
The demand for highly reliable, fully integrated hardware and
software is rapidly increasing in markets like China, where there
is a need for the fastest possible development velocity in
connected transportation. Moving forward, Renesas and BlackBerry
will continue to accelerate their development of integrated cockpit
systems and connected car systems, while strengthening their joint
efforts for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and
full-scale Electronic Control Unit (ECU) integration.
About Renesas Electronics Corporation
Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) delivers trusted
embedded design innovation with complete semiconductor solutions
that enable billions of connected, intelligent devices to enhance
the way people work and live—securely and safely. A global leader
in microcontrollers, analog, power, SoC products and integrated
platforms, Renesas provides the expertise, quality, and
comprehensive solutions for a broad range of Automotive,
Industrial, Home Electronics, Office Automation and Information
Communication Technology applications to help shape a limitless
future. Learn more at renesas.com.
About BlackBerry
BlackBerry is an enterprise software and services company
focused on securing and managing IoT endpoints. The company does
this with BlackBerry® Secure™, an end-to-end Enterprise of Things
platform, comprised of its enterprise communication and
collaboration software and safety-certified embedded solutions.
Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company was founded in 1984 and
operates in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Middle East,
Latin America and Africa. The Company trades under the ticker
symbol “BB” on the Toronto Stock Exchange and New York Stock
Exchange. For more information, visit www.BlackBerry.com.
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