NXP Announces New Automotive Processing Platform that Brings Future Vehicles to Market Faster
October 16 2017 - 2:00AM
8 of the top 15 car makers have already adopted NXP S32 platform
for upcoming models
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI), the world’s largest supplier
of automotive semiconductors3, has announced an all new control and
compute concept for connected, electric and autonomous cars. The
NXP S32 platform is the world’s first fully-scalable automotive
computing architecture.4 Soon to be adopted by both premium and
volume automotive brands, it offers a unified architecture of
microcontrollers/microprocessors (MCU/MPU) and an identical
software environment across application platforms. The NXP S32
architecture addresses the challenges of future car development
with a host of architectural innovations designed to allow
carmakers to bring rich in-vehicle experiences and automated
driving functions to market much faster than before.
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Modern cars are a complex mixture of applications and disparate
software approaches that present significant integration challenges
to the carmaker. Automotive industry estimates reveal there are
more lines of code in an advanced vehicle than a modern passenger
aircraft.5 This complexity places carmakers and automotive
suppliers under tremendous pressure to satisfy market expectations
for higher electronic functionality within tightening
time-to-market constraints.
NXP’s new S32 platform addresses these challenges with the
highest performance MCU6 in the industry, a smooth transition to
MPU performance and an identical software development environment
across vehicle applications. The new software development
environment allows developers to reuse costly research and
development work7 and therefore respond quicker to changing vehicle
architectures and intense time-to-market demands. The platform is
developed to deliver automotive quality, reliability and ASIL D
performance across multiple application spaces.
“Traditional and disruptive automakers, even more than Tier 1s,
seek a standardized way of working across vehicle domains, segments
and regions to meet increasing performance demands while
contemporarily ensuring fast time to market and control over
skyrocketing development costs,” said Luca DeAmbroggi, senior
principal analyst, Automotive Electronics & Semiconductors at
IHS Markit. “A common architecture and a scalable approach can cut
development time for critical applications in domains like ADAS,
autonomous driving or connectivity from both the HW and the SW
perspective.”
How the NXP S32 Architecture Changes Car
Development
- Scalability across products – The S32 platform
encompasses broadest-in-industry range of performance from small
low power Arm® Cortex®-M, Real Time optimized Cortex-R and highest
performance Cortex-A class performance classes, with ASIL D
capability at each performance level.
- Over-the-Air Updates – The S32 platform allows
zero downtime OTA capability with full roll back options to any S32
enabled car domains via a secure gateway and common domain
architecture.
- Security – The S32 platform brings the
best of NXP’s core security concepts across new SoCs launched in
the S32 family, offering scalable solutions that are the benchmark
for the automotive industry.
- A common IP set provides a consistent
development environment via the S32 SDK. This allows development
efforts to be shared across domains and eliminates duplication of
multiple software modules.
- Application-specific IP on each
microcontroller gives tailored hardware support for key
domain requirements like secure gateway, radar, powertrain and
motor control.
- A unique technology independent
architecture – The complete redesign of NXP IP across
the microcontroller families has forged common functionality across
technology nodes and consistent hardware and software
behavior.
- Artificial Intelligence – The S32
platform will support a range of AI accelerators targeting ADAS
applications. These will accelerate algorithms to support
functions, such as object detection and classification in the areas
of vision, radar and sensor fusion.
Quotes
“Our insight into the future of automotive caused us to
re-evaluate the interrelationship between hardware and software,”
said Matt Johnson, senior vice president and general manager -
Product Lines and Software, Auto MCU and Processors at NXP
Semiconductors. “We saw that to build the software of tomorrow, the
software behind future vehicles, we had to reinvent the hardware.
We built our hardware to enable an identical software development
environment across products and applications, thereby significantly
reducing software development effort and shortening time to market.
Our customers see it the same way.”
Availability
Leading OEMs are now using pre-silicon emulation and development
tools available from NXP’s key third party partners. Further
announcements from NXP partners related to these capabilities are
expected soon.
Notes
1 Based on publicly available competitor roadmap performance
statements.2 Based on analysis of existing NXP software code in
existing customers’ applications, NXP expects that software reuse
will be significant both within domains and across vehicle domains
at up to 90 and more than 40 percent respectively.3 Source:
Strategy Analytics 20164 Hardware and software scalability from 512
KB embedded in NVM with M-Class processor up to 1 GHz A-Class
processor running with DDR memory.5 Source:
Informationisbeautiful.net6 NXP is high performing at 6000
ASIL-DMIPS, the closest competitor is 3000 ASIL-DMIPS based on
publicly available information.7 S32 software compatibility
provides customers with the ability to reuse the same software
across multiple product lines.
About NXP
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI) enables secure connections
and infrastructure for a smarter world, advancing solutions that
make lives easier, better and safer. As the world leader in secure
connectivity solutions for embedded applications, NXP is driving
innovation in the secure connected vehicle, end-to-end security
&privacy and smart connected solutions markets. Built on more
than 60 years of combined experience and expertise, the company has
31,000 employees in more than 33 countries and posted revenue of
$9.5 billion in 2016. Find out more at www.nxp.com.
For more information, please contact:
Europe / U.S.
Jason DealTel: +44 7715228414Email: jason.deal@nxp.com
Greater China / Asia
Esther ChangTel: +886 2 8170 9990Email: esther.chang@nxp.com
Japan
Kiyomi Masuda (増田 清美)Tel: +81-70-3627-6472Email:
kiyomi.masuda@nxp.com
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