Brian Carlson

Transitioning from a hardware-centric to a software-defined vehicle approach stems from the inability of flat E/E architectures to scale to the processing and data bandwidth requirements of connected, autonomous, shared, electric vehicles (CASE) mobility.

The software-defined EV motor leverages real-time, in-vehicle data and processing, along with the cloud, to improve over time using agile development.

The automotive industry is changing. How transport integrates into our lives has changed, with sharing becoming more important than ownership. Additionally, today’s consumers grew up with computers and smartphones—devices customizable to users’ needs. As a result, the balance of power in automotive is moving from the mechanical to the software engineers. Vehicles' design has to change to support software-defined vehicles, and this requires new types of automotive processors.

NXP's S32G3 processors are ideal for vehicle computer and safety processing applications, but they are versatile and are expected to be used in other high-performance automotive processing applications such as gateways and domain controllers, as well as being in adjacent markets such as transportation and industrial.

The fast-growing market for electric vehicles brings with it new opportunities and challenges. The traction converter plays a key role in this. In order to control this efficiently, NXP has developed a new family of microcontrollers with the S32K39 series.

This paper investigates the practical impact of migrating the secure boot flow on a Vehicle Network
Processor (S32G274A) towards Post-Quantum Cryptography (PCQ). We create a low-memory fault attack-resistant implementation of the Dilithium signature verification.
algorithm and evaluate its impact on the boot flow.

Connected vehicles and electric vehicles are key automotive growth areas that are usually discussed independently. However, synergy between them can substantially improve the capabilities and efficiency of electric vehicles. This article explores these new opportunities, provides insights into key technology enablers and describes an NXP system solution to enable the opportunities.

The vehicle data revolution is fully underway. More and more vehicles are connected. Some already have upwards of 40 sensors and autonomous vehicles will produce up to four terabytes of data an hour! The enormous amount of data poses both opportunities and challenges for vehicle makers.

Automobile manufacturers worldwide are working on autonomous driving technologies. Safety and protective functions are the fundamental cornerstones for customer acceptance and market success of driver assistance systems and autonomous driving systems. NXP describes why an architecture partitioned into modeling and planning is better suited to ensure system safety than end-to-end solutions.

An automotive gateway is a central hub that securely and reliably interconnects and processes data across a range of vehicle networks. It provides physical isolation and protocol translation to route data between data-sharing functional domains, enabling new features.

In this paper, we present IVA-HD, a true multistandard, programmable, full HD video coding engine which adopts optimal hardware-software partitioning to achieve the low-power and area requirements of the OMAP 4 processor.

TI has taken a “smart multicore” approach to offer industry-leading mobile user experiences with OMAP™ platforms since 2002, with each generation offering new processing cores to maximize performance and battery life.

This whitepaper focuses on some of the key new capabilities of the ARM Cortex-A15 processor that will help drive the transformation of mobile computing.

This webinar discusses mobile processor technologies and trends and their impact on mobile application processor architectures.

Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) has traditionally been used in PCs to extend performance. SMP is coming to mobile devices to provide a dramatic increase in on-demand processing performance along with power scalability.

Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) are taking the wireless world by storm. Classified as emerging products that combine wireless communication with computing, they promise a full range of features - including no-compromise Web browsing - and other outstanding opportunities.

Derived from generations of successful solutions for mobile phones, the OMAP™ 3 platform
represents the culmination of TI process and design expertise in obtaining the highest performance
from the least power so that MID users can enjoy advanced applications with the longest
possible battery life between charges. Compared to solutions scaled down from the PC market,
the OMAP 3 platform enables manufacturers to build products that are smaller, lighter in weight,
more affordable… Show more

Derived from generations of successful solutions for mobile phones, the OMAP™ 3 platform
represents the culmination of TI process and design expertise in obtaining the highest performance
from the least power so that MID users can enjoy advanced applications with the longest
possible battery life between charges. Compared to solutions scaled down from the PC market,
the OMAP 3 platform enables manufacturers to build products that are smaller, lighter in weight,
more affordable and capable of being used all day without recharging. System developers can
turn to OMAP 3 technology today for proven high-performance solutions that are ready to enable
the full range of emerging MID products. Show less

Managing power budgets for mobile devices requires an aggressive, holistic power
management approach. This approach starts with process technologies and moves upward
to hardware, system-on-a-chip (SOC) architectures and software.

The catalyst for future mobile gaming market growth will be integrating 3D graphics and visual realism into handsets to deliver an experience that rivals what consumers experience on consoles today.

This paper discusses how to address the challenge of reducing power consumption in mobile devices while continuing to enhance system performance.

This application note provides information on how to interface a daughterboard to the
TMS320C62x EVM, TMS320C62x McEVM, and TMS320C67x EVM. I designed these EVMs when I was at DNA Enterprises under contract to Texas Instruments.

Application report developed while at DNA Enterprises under contract to Texas Instruments.
Rev. A released in Aug 2001 by TI.

Lead blogger for Texas Instruments mobile business.