[Synopsys IP Resources] Automotive SoCs will be reshaped, and IP will usher in new changes

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[Synopsys IP Resources] Automotive SoCs will be reshaped, and IP will usher in new changes [Copy link]

With the advent of the era of new energy vehicles and self-driving cars, new applications such as ADAS/AD, car connectivity and V2X have emerged, which have brought new application directions to the automotive architecture. As the architecture evolves, new requirements have also been put forward for automotive SoCs. Now the industry believes that a new architecture will reshape the layout of automotive SoCs. In such a major change, what role will automotive-grade IP play?

Zonal architecture for cars emerges, and car IP may provide support
Nowadays, cars need more and more sensors, including imaging, lidar, infrared and other sensors. Last year, Google's Waymo used 29 cameras. In addition, these new applications have greatly increased the functional safety requirements for SoC level. Moreover, more and more artificial intelligence is being applied to the automotive field, such as BEV/HEV power system SoC with artificial intelligence, and new smart sensors have also increased the difficulty and complexity of sensor SoC design. As the number of sensors increases and the integration becomes higher, higher computing and processing capabilities are required.

At the same time, the automotive architecture has also ushered in new application directions, mainly in three major areas: one is ADAS; the second is in-vehicle entertainment and car interconnection; the third is the automotive gateway. The application focuses of these aspects are also different. ADAS has high requirements for the number of sensors, AI reasoning capabilities, image processing and other performance, so both the process and specification requirements are very high. For example, some automotive processors have begun to transition from 16nm to 7nm and 5nm. In-vehicle entertainment needs to carry smooth user operations and display interactions, and the performance requirements are also increasing. Even more AI processing is gradually being introduced, resulting in that under certain conditions, in-vehicle entertainment chips can even replace some ADAS chips. The automotive gateway does not have as high requirements for performance and processing as ADAS, and focuses more on the aggregation and distribution of network data, and has high requirements for priority and real-time performance.

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