By: Sooner Heath
Car makers can now get set up fast on Renesas digital cockpit hardware with Mapbox pre-integrated. Renesas has just launched the Renesas Cockpit Reference Solution, built with Mapbox Navigation, to help their OEM partners accelerate the design and development work.
The customizable infotainment module facilitates the creation of all major components in an integrated cockpit solution including vehicle interfaces, physical packaging of the white-box module, system-on-a-chip and supporting electrical subsystems, operating system, middleware, and user interface.
As part of the solution, Renesas used Mapbox SDKs for Linux to integrate cloud-based navigation into the platform. Our navigation provides turn-by-turn route guidance based on real-time road conditions, even in disconnected or semi-connected areas. The map is fully interactive, users can zoom and pan at 60 frames per second with multi-touch gestures. As a user zooms, points of interest like charging stations and restaurants appear seamlessly, users can save favorite locations and search using a virtual keyboard.
The navigation UI has multiple form factors, including one for the instrument cluster and one for a full-screen infotainment display. The home screen form factor is easily visible concurrently with critical driving information on gauges and telltales. The full-screen form factor is designed for search, map exploration, and navigation option configuration.
Mapbox’s customizable map styles give Renesas’s partners the flexibility to build their navigation UX tailored to their vehicle lineup. Using Mapbox Studio, car makers can design the maps to align with their brand and UI and can control all aspects of the map content, including adding in proprietary data to build a differentiated experience for their customers.
See the Renesas Cockpit Reference Solution in action at TU Auto Detroit, June 4–6, both Renesas and Mapbox teams will be there. Drop us a line to meet up or visit mapbox.com/automotive to learn more about Mapbox for Automotive.
Sooner Heath - Solutions Engineering, Automotive - Mapbox | LinkedIn
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