Renesas R-Car M1 system-on-chip series

Renesas has released the R-Car series of systems-on-chip, the M1 series, offering low power consumption for next-generation dashboard-mounted car navigation systems and supporting human machine interfaces.

The series is the first of the R-Car series, which represents the integration of the company’s SH-Navi series and EMMA Car series products.

The series shares integration of the dedicated circuitry for intelligent multimedia processing that saves about 92% of power in full 1920 x 1080-pixel high-definition video decoding relative to executing the same function in software; dedicated power supply IC for use in a voltage regulator that reduces power consumption by about 20%; the PowerVR SGX graphics core enhances 3D rendering performance, allowing designers to create realistic graphical user interfaces (GUIs, Note 3) and improved user operability; incorporation of ARM Cortex-A9 and Renesas Electronics SH-4A CPU cores operating at a maximum 800 MHz to deliver processing performance of up to 3.7 GIPS.

Key features of the series include: low power consumption while providing high-performance multimedia through the integration of dedicated circuits for processing 1080 HD video and audio; dedicated power supply IC for use in a voltage regulator enables low-power consumption.