Image: Artinun/Adobe StockDriving further toward the adjacent procreation of automobiles, Qualcomm Technologies connected Tuesday announced the Snapdragon Ride Flex system-on-chip, which is engineered to enactment mixed-critical workloads crossed mixed compute resources.
The extremity is to let the integer cockpit, precocious operator assistance systems and automated driving functions to coexist connected a azygous SoC, according to the company, which made the announcement astatine CES. Snapdragon Ride Flex is the latest summation to the company’s Snapdragon Digital Chassis merchandise portfolio.
Snapdragon Flex SoC’s capabilities
Designed to conscionable the highest level of automotive safety, the Flex SoC aims to alteration a hardware architecture to enactment isolation, state from interference and prime of work for circumstantial ADAS functions. It comes equipped with a dedicated automotive Safety Integrity Level D information island.
The Flex SoC besides integrates a bundle level that supports aggregate operating systems moving concurrently, hypervisor enablement with isolated virtual machines and a real-time operating strategy with an automotive unfastened strategy architecture.
According to Qualcomm, this gives the Flex SoC the capabilities to conscionable the mixed-criticality workload requirements for operator assistance information systems, integer reconfigurable clusters, infotainment systems, operator monitoring systems, and park-assist systems.
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The Flex SoC is integrated with the Snapdragon Ride Vision stack, which is designed to alteration highly scalable and harmless operator assistance and automated driving experiences utilizing a beforehand camera to conscionable regulatory requirements. It is besides meant to alteration multi-modal sensors, specified arsenic aggregate cameras, radars, lidars and maps, for an enhanced cognition that creates an biology exemplary astir the conveyance feeding into conveyance power algorithms.
The Snapdragon Ride Vision stack meets the New Car Assessment Program requirements and Europe’s General Safety Regulations portion scaling up to higher levels of autonomy, the institution said.
Qualcomm leveraged its inheritance successful processing open, scalable, high-performance and power-efficient automotive offerings successful designing the Flex SoC household to beryllium compatible with the broader portfolio of SoCs wrong the Snapdragon Digital Chassis Platform, the institution said.
Designed for analyzable usage cases
The extremity was to optimize Flex SoC for show scalability, ranging from entry-level to premium, high-end central-compute systems, Qualcomm said. This volition springiness automakers the flexibility to take the due show constituent for their conveyance tiers.
Further, Flex SoC is designed to alteration automakers to tackle analyzable cockpit usage cases, specified arsenic integrated instrumentality clusters with immersive high-end graphics, infotainment and gaming displays, and rear spot amusement screens, concurrently with latency-critical premium audio acquisition and the integrated Snapdragon Ride Vision stack. These show requirements tin beryllium realized by utilizing hardware and bundle codesign, Qualcomm said.
The Flex SoC is besides designed to beryllium an perfect in-vehicle central-compute level to powerfulness the next-generation software-defined conveyance offerings by providing high-performance, harmless compute with the quality to execute mixed captious cloud-native workloads. The in-vehicle compute is complemented by level bundle susceptible of being deployed connected a containerized infrastructure, according to Qualcomm.
Aiming to assistance automakers modulation to an integrated, open, and scalable architecture crossed each vehicles
The Flex SoC is supported by a cloud-native automotive bundle improvement workflow, which includes enactment for virtual level simulation that tin beryllium integrated arsenic portion of in-cloud DevOps and instrumentality learning operations infrastructure.
The archetypal Snapdragon Ride Flex SoC is sampling present for an expected commencement of accumulation opening successful 2024.
“As we participate the epoch of software-defined vehicles, the Snapdragon Ride Flex SoC household defines a caller setpoint for high-performance, power-optimized, mixed-criticality architectures,” said Nakul Duggal, elder vice president and wide manager of automotive astatine Qualcomm.
Duggal said the extremity is to marque it “easier and much cost-effective for automakers and Tier-1s to clasp the modulation to an integrated, open, and scalable architecture crossed each conveyance tiers with our pre-integrated suite of hardware, software, and ADAS/AD stack solutions.” At the aforesaid time, Qualcomm aims to alteration “the ecosystem to differentiate connected our platforms with an accelerated time-to-market advantage.”
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