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Renesas to Supply Chips for Toyota Self-Driving Cars
Tokyo-based Renesas Electronics will supply semiconductors and microcontrollers to Toyota and Denso for future Toyota vehicles with automated driving capabilities.
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Tokyo-based Renesas Electronics will supply semiconductors and microcontrollers to Toyota and Denso for future Toyota vehicles with automated driving capabilities.
Toyota currently is testing its “Highway Teammate” prototype car, which can autonomously accelerate, brake, steer, merge, pass and change lanes during highway driving. Production vehicles using the technology are due in 2020.
Renesas’ R-Car system-on-chip will serve as the electronic brain for Toyota’s infotainment and advanced driver-assistance systems. This will be teamed with the company’s RH850 microcontroller that will use data from the R-Car chip to control driving, steering and braking functions. R-Car also will be used in the Denso engine control unit planned for the Toyota automated vehicles.
Renesas says the combination optimizes performance and power consumption. The company, which is refocusing its automotive efforts on autonomous vehicles, also is supplying R-Car and RH850 to Nissan Motor Co.’s ProPilot Park system that will debut in the 2018 Leaf electric car.
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