Continued from Ph1960oz above....February 17, 2021TOKYO, Japan ―...

Continued from Ph1960oz above....

February 17, 2021
TOKYO, Japan ― Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the development of processor technologies for automotive systems-on-chip (SoCs) used in applications such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD) systems that aim to optimize both performance and power efficiency while supporting a high level of functional safety.
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The newly-developed technologies used in the R-Car V3U SoC are described below.

1. Development of high-performance CNN hardware accelerator with superior power efficiency.
As the number of sensors utilized in next-generation ADAS and AD systems increases, more powerful CNN processing performance is required. In addition, there is a need to reduce the heat generated by power consumption to make possible electronics control units (ECUs) that are air-cooled, which brings advantages in weight and cost. Renesas has developed a CNN hardware accelerator core with superior deep learning performance and implemented three such cores, in a high-density configuration, on the R-Car V3U. In addition, the R-Car V3U has 2 megabytes (MB) of dedicated memory per CNN accelerator core, for a total of 6 MB of memory. This reduces data transfers between external DRAM and the CNN accelerator by more than 90 percent and successfully achieved a high CNN processing performance of 60.4 TOPS with best-in-class power efficiency of 13.8 TOPS/W (Note 1).

Is this development significant to BRN, in light of BRN's relationship with Renesas, the signing of the IP agreement with Renesas on December 23, 2020?
Does the Renesas CNN hardware accelerator core sound something similar to the Akida NSoC?

https://www.renesas.com/us/en/about/press-room/renesas-develops-automotive-soc-functional-safety-technologies-cnn-accelerator-cores-and-asil-d