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Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Renesas Technology Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 11 November 2004
Initiative for car infotainment and
telematics
Renesas Technology Europe has launched Comet consortium aimed at bringing integrated systems solutions to the car infotainment and telematics market.
Renesas Technology Europe has launched comet (Community Enabling Telematics), the company's US-founded consortium aimed at bringing integrated systems solutions to the car infotainment and telematics market The group helps its members to jump-start development projects, maximising the resources and time needed to implement products
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Several new companies have recently joined the organisation, including 3Soft, Acapela, Altia, Navigon and MPC Data, taking the total membership to 24.
Comet was formed in October 2002 to accelerate the proliferation of car infotainment system (CIS) and telematics products based on SuperH (SH-4 series) RISC processors and chipsets.
The consortium enables Renesas Technology and member companies to offer customers comprehensive systems solutions by utilising a readily available and optimised pool of application software.
This includes Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS), speech recognition algorithms, Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) and noise suppression software, Bluetooth application stacks and GPS software.
As a result of the Comet initiative, system engineers in automotive equipment manufacturers can now easily evaluate multiple software and middleware products running concurrently on the SDK7780 and "Biscayne" platforms for the respective SuperH-based microprocessors, SH7780 (SH-4A) and SH7760 (SH-4).
Renesas Technology and Comet members have also set up and debugged key development system configurations for various telematics and CIS applications, enabling entire solutions rather than just individual software and middleware pieces to be rapidly and accurately analysed.
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