Andes Technology and IAR collaborate to help ILI accelerate development of its ISO 26262-compliant TDDI SoC ILI6600A

Andes Technology and IAR collaborate to help ILI accelerate development of its ISO 26262-compliant TDDI SoC ILI6600A

Through the integrated functional safety solution of Andes and IAR, ELION Technology will develop its high-performance touch and display driver integration (TDDI) chip

Uppsala, Sweden – March 16, 2023 – Andes Andes Technology and IAR have announced that ILITEK’s touch and display driver integration (TDDI) chip, the ILI6600A, uses Andes’ ISO 26262 certified V5 RISC-V CPU core, the N25F-SE, and IAR’s certified Embedded Workbench for RISC-V toolchain to support automotive functional safety (FuSa) in its most advanced chips . The ILI6600A consists of a highly integrated amorphous/LTPS (low temperature polysilicon)/oxide TFT (thin film transistor) LCD (liquid crystal display) driver and an embedded touch controller. The integrated solution provided by Andes Andes and IAR with a robust ISO 26262 design methodology can shorten the stringent certification process for automotive products and accelerate customer product time to market.

ILI6600A's LCD driver supports up to 3 chips in cascade and provides up to 16.7M colors. Its IIE (True Color Image Enhancement) function enables high-quality display and visual experience. ILI6600A's touch panel controller uses a 32-bit high-performance single-cycle instruction set MCU, and its built-in high-speed and high-performance hardware acceleration computing module provides excellent data processing capabilities. With ILI Technology's driving technology and algorithms, the touch controller brings users an excellent performance experience, strong noise immunity and high signal-to-noise ratio.

The ILI6600A uses the AndesCore™ N25F-SE , the world's first RISC-V CPU that fully complies with the ISO 26262 standard. As an enhanced safety version of the popular N25F series, the N25F-SE is designed for automotive functional safety (FuSa) to prevent systematic failures and random hardware failures. IAR Embedded Workbench for RISC-V is a certified integrated development environment that includes a powerful IAR C/C++ compiler and debugger. The joint solutions and expertise of the two companies provide customers with best-in-class performance and safety for automotive applications.

"ILI6600A is our first product to meet the ISO 26262 ASIL B standard, providing powerful, real-time, certified fault detection capabilities. Its high signal-to-noise ratio enables excellent touch screen performance and a first-class user experience. At the same time, our engineering resources will provide timely on-site services. In addition, ILI6600A also has a remote AI tuning tool developed based on our experience in TDDI projects. We are very happy to work with Andes Technology and IAR to develop our automotive TDDI SoC solution to meet the growing demand for in-vehicle display devices with higher resolutions," said Luen Wey, CEO of IAR Technology. ILI6600A AFE can scan up to 960ch touch sensors and supports both LongV and LongH scanning methods. In addition, ILI6600A also supports virtual touch keys and knob functions. As the most important part in automotive applications, ILI6600A has passed automotive ESD, EMI and EMS tests and will soon become AEC-Q100 Grade 2 compliant products. Andes Technology's RISC-V With its high performance, low power consumption, and necessary safety features, the N25F-SE is the ideal processor to help the ILI6600A achieve its design goals.”

“We are pleased to work with IAR to support the development of IAR’s automotive TDDI SoC products. With the N25F-SE, we can ensure that our customers use our ISO 26262 certified CPU IP and safety package solutions during their product certification process. IAR has licensed many of Andes’ own third-generation architecture V3 CPUs. Their continued licensing of Andes’ latest CPU IP and designing it into their own SoCs fully demonstrates IAR’s recognition of Andes’ CPU quality over multiple generations.” said Dr. Hongmeng Su, General Manager and CTO of Andes . “Andes is the first RISC-V CPU IP company to obtain ISO 26262 certification. Our automotive processor core development process has met the ASIL D level requirements of the ISO 26262 standard. With the certified development process in place, we have officially launched the ISO 26262 functional safety series product roadmap to support the development of the automotive industry supply chain.”

“IAR is pleased to work with Andes Technology to help IAR ensure the functional safety of its TDDI products,” said Anders Holmberg, CTO of IAR . “RISC-V technology continues to advance rapidly, opening up new horizons for innovation. We will continue to drive change in the industry by supporting the ecosystem and customers with professional development tools.”

The functional safety version of IAR Embedded Workbench for RISC-V is certified by TÜV SÜD and meets the requirements of 10 different standards, including ISO 26262. In addition to the powerful technology, IAR also provides guaranteed support for the sold versions, including long-term customer support contracts, validation service packages and regular reporting of known vulnerabilities and issues.