STMicroelectronics is licensing the the Cortex-R5 to build (system on chips) SoCs for the automotive market.
ARM
on Tuesday announced the release of a new chip, called the Cortex-R5, that's
designed for real-time embedded systems with critical safety needs, such as
autonomous driving or surgical automation.
STMicroelectronics
is the first ARM partner to announce it's licensing the new processor to build
highly integrated SoCs for the automotive market.
The
new chip was developed to meet the requirements of the most stringent
industrial safety standards (IEC 61508 SIL 3) and automotive safety standards
(ISO 26262 ASIL D), making it easy to adopt. It also uses hardware to simplify
its integration into complex real-time software environments, as well as to
separate software tasks to protect and isolate safety-critical code. This
allows the hardware to be managed by a software hypervisor.
"The
Cortex-R52 supports our Smart Driving vision by enabling a new range of
high-performance, power-efficient SoCs for any in-vehicle application demanding
real-time operation and the highest levels of functional safety, including
powertrain, chassis and ADAS," Fabio Marchiò, Automotive Digital Division
General Manager of STMicroelectronics, said in a statement. "The
Cortex-R52's ability to compartmentalize software provides our users with the
best solution for safety without loss of determinism. Its virtualization
support simplifies the consolidation of applications and functions into a
single processor, delivering a shorter integration time."
The
new processor, the first built on the ARMv8-R architecture, comes a couple
weeks after Softbank finalized its acquisition of ARM with the intent of
pushing into the Internet of Things.
