Collecting information for the planning of a shared development platform
...to develop software code that advances the chosen topics of the Android Automotive SIG home.
What is a "development platform"?
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- Supported: R-Car H3 Starter Kit with Kingfisher board
- Starter Kit
- Starter Kits are an automotive orientated compact board series with expansion connectors for connections not on-board and which is aimed at community use.
- 4GB and 8GByte DDR Starter Kit variants available with eMMC to meet Google GAS requirements
- Price approx 950 Euro (TBC)
- Available direct from Renesas.
- Kingfisher
- Kingfisher acts as an add-on base board for the Starter Kit adding numerous automotive connectors and on-board peripherals.
- Kingfisher can be further expanded by dedicated camera boards for GMSL and FPD Link cameras
- Available from the mfr Shimafuji or Renesas.
- Boards, documentation and Yocto BSP available without NDA
- Starter Kit
- Also likely to work: R-Car H3/M3 Salvator-XS board
- Salvator-XS is the R-Car customer reference board.
- More expensive than Starter Kit, but mentioned here as some participants will have them in-house and Android is available for it.
- Boards available direct from Renesas.
- R-Car is officially supported within Genivi GDP, AGL and Adaptive Autosar FT-DI/FT-SI teams.
- Renesas maintains support for the Genivi Yocto Baseline and are contributing knowledge and a board farm towards the Genivi Automated Test system.
NXP
- i.MX8 Automotive development board, using the Multi-sensory-enablement Kit, MEK, board.
(GENIVI lab will use MCIMX8QM-CPU for i.MX 8QuadMax processor, other variants might work)
Qualcomm Snapdragon
- Not supported out of the box. Community input is welcome.
- Proposal: Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ S820Am v2 Automotive Development Platform
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