Renesas Technology has unveiled a dual-core processor fabricated on a 65nm process. The target application for the 1,920 million instructions per second (MIPS) dual-core is in-car multimedia equipment and the processor has the performance for 3D graphics and image recognition.

Renesas already developed the 90nm SH7786 dual-core processor now the 65nm process version realises lower power consumption by finer process and ultra-high-speed data transfer by incorporating DDR3-SDRAM memory interface.

According to Renesas, multimedia systems, such as car navigation systems, incorporate more functions and demand higher performance from the processor sub-system. Examples include map rendering using 2-D and 3-D graphics and also navigation systems with their own entertainment features such as audio and video functionality.

“In future there will be an increase in sophisticated information processing capabilities related to safety, such as image recognition, and even more high-level multimedia capabilities will be implemented as part of these products’ new role as the core of an in-vehicle integrated information system,” said the company.

The SH7786 incorporates dual SH-4A high-performance 32-bit RISC CPU cores, each with a processing performance of 960 MIPS at 533 MHz, and achieves a maximum processing performance of 1,920 MIPS.

A version of the E10A-USB on-chip debugging emulator with multi-core support is available as a development environment for the SH7786. 

The SH7786 is fully supported by QNX Neutrino RTOS and the QNX Momentics development suite.
 
The device will be available in 2009.
 
Renesas Technology’s multi-core technology experience has also included the development of a prototype chip with four SH-4A CPU cores and a maximum processing performance of 4,320MIPS (when operating at 600MHz). The company also developed a prototype chip with eight SH-4A CPU cores which achieved a maximum processing performance of 8,640MIPS (when operating at 600MHz) and low power technology for multi-core LSI.