Targeting the cost-sensitive car navigation and multimedia systems in high-end car radios, Renesas Electronics has added the R-Car E1 to its range of R-Car SoCs. They offer low power consumption, says the company, and are powered with a single ARM Cortex-A9 32bit RISC CPU core, enhanced with Neon extension. This runs at 533MHz, which achieves a maximum processing power of 1,330Dhrystone MIPS. It uses the PowerVR SGX531 from Imagination Technologies, which processes up to 14M triangles/s and can deliver up to 1.4Gflops, for accelerated graphics. With multiple channels of 10bit ADCs, customers can simplify the interface to gyroscopes and accelerometers. Two output displays are supported - one is a digital RGB interface for the main screen, and the second is an analogue output supporting PAL/NTSC formats, for back seat screens.
