A Virtual Turnkey Platform application software development environment.

The virtual turnkey platform is a software development kit (R-Car SDK) with pretested software libraries and sample code on the virtual development environment R-Car Virtual Platform (VPF). The R-Car VPF is based on Synopsys Virtualizer Development Kits (VDK) and is customized for R-Car by adding virtual models of the R-Car-specific intellectual property (IP). This, along with the R-Car SDK, enables immediate virtual development of application software. Since this platform reproduces the actual chip with a high degree of accuracy, users don t need to set up a development environment using an actual board, and multiple users can develop software simultaneously on their own PCs or servers.