Western Digital’s Automotive Grade Storage Solutions Verified Compatible with Renesas’ R-Car Automotive System-on-Chips
May 30 2019 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Western Digital’s iNAND Automotive Grade
e.MMC 5.1 EFDs Work with Renesas’ R-Car Automotive SoCs to Enable
High Performance and Wide Operating-temperature Storage
Solutions
Story Highlights
- Western Digital’s Automotive Grade
iNAND e.MMC 5.1 storage solutions verified compatible with Renesas’
R-Car automotive systems-on-chips
- Western Digital positioned iNAND e.MMC
solutions lead in endurance, reliability and advanced features for
data-intensive applications
Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ:
WDC), a leading data infrastructure company, announced that the
company’s Automotive Grade iNAND e.MMC 5.1 EFD storage solution was
verified compatible with Renesas’ R-Car automotive system-on-chips
(SoCs) to enable automotive applications that require high
endurance, high reliability and a wide operating temperature range.
Designed to perform with low power and across a long lifecycle, the
iNAND Automotive Grade e.MMC 5.1 EFD storage solution is featured
in Renesas’ R-Car Starter Kit Premier.
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Western Digital’s iNAND e.MMC 5.1
embedded flash drive has been verified compatible with Renesas
R-CAR SoCs (systems-on-chips), enabling it to be used in Renasas'
computing platforms for data-intensive applications. (Graphic:
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Driven by data, a growing number of automotive solutions are
using advanced human-machine interfaces (HMI), cognitive computing
and computer vision, which require high-resolution graphics, image
processing, video sensing and other advanced features. These
applications require durable and reliable storage solutions that
can work in harsh automotive environments with elevated
temperatures, humidity and vibration for prolonged periods of
time.
“As a valued partner, Western Digital delivers a wide breadth of
storage solutions for customers developing high-end, highly
demanding, data-intensive automotive applications,” said Naoki
Yoshida, vice president, Automotive Technical Customer Engagement
Division, Automotive Solution Business Unit, Renesas. “The
combination of the R-Car family of automotive SoCs and Western
Digital’s iNAND Automotive Grade storage solutions give customers a
powerful and reliable solution for automotive environments.”
“Verifying the compatibility of Western Digital’s iNAND
Automotive Grade e.MMC 5.1 EFD solutions as part of the R-Car
Starter Kit will take the guesswork out of the design process and
enable our mutual customers to achieve faster time-to-market for a
wide range of automotive applications,” said Oded Sagee, senior
director, Devices Group, Western Digital.
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preserve, access and transform an ever-increasing diversity of
data. Everywhere data lives, from advanced data centers to mobile
sensors to personal devices, our industry-leading solutions deliver
the possibilities of data. Western Digital® data-centric solutions
are comprised of the Western Digital®, G-Technology™, SanDisk®,
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