Renesas Electronics a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the R-Car V3M Starter Kit to simplify and speed up the development of New Car Assessment Program front camera applications, surround view systems and LiDARs. The new starter kit is based on the R-Car V3M image recognition system-on-chip (SoC), delivering a combination of low power consumption and high performance for the growing NCAP front camera market. By combining the R-Car V3M starter kit with supporting software and tools, system developers can easily develop front camera applications, contributing to reduced development efforts and faster time-to-market.

Renesas also announced an enhancement to the R-Car V3M by integrating a new, highly power-efficient hardware accelerator for high-performance convolutional neural networks which enables features such as road detection or object classification that is increasingly used in automotive applications. The R-Car V3M’s innovative hardware accelerator enables CNN’s to execute at ultra-low power consumption levels that cannot be reached when CNN’s are running on CPUs or GPUs.