TDA2x

TDA2x superset block diagram including 4x EVE from ADAS Applications Processor TDA2x System-on-Chip Technical Brief, OCTOBER 2013:

Relative programming flexibility and computation performance of the included cores:

publications

TI’s new TDA2x SoC family of devices, complete with a heterogeneous scalable architecture, provides the optimal solution. The custom Vision AccelerationPac leverages the purpose built Embedded Vision Engines (EVEs), working in tandem with industry leading DSP and ARM® cores. Each Embedded Vision Engine in the Vision AccelerationPac can provide more than 8x compute performance at the same power budget for advanced vision analytics in a more costeffective footprint, bringing to life the broadest and most advanced portfolio of ADAS applications. Source: Driving the Future TI’s Automotive Perspectives 2013, OCTOBER 2013

In November 2014 TI publicly showcased TDA2x at their booth on "electronica 2014" in Munich. There was a PCB with a TDA2x along with a camera interface board and 5 cameras built into a model vehicle that was put onto the model of a parking lot and attached to flat screen display. It demonstrated surround view with 4 of the cameras and also demonstrated LD, PD & TSR with the remaining camera. The staff told people that they have 10 processor cores in the SoC and that there are 6 camera inputs from which they are using only 5 for that demo. The display showed nice object detection and surround view. It further showed labeled load graphs for the processors with only about a DSP load of 160% (2 DSPs) and 1 EVE mostly loaded. Along with this demonstration there was a Jacinto labeled demo with a similar model vehicle but seemingly that item was meant do demonstrate surround view only.

• TDA2x
  • TDA2x product page
  • TDA2x is described on the TI pages; http://www.ti.com/ww/en/TDA2x-ADAS/?DCMP=pro-ap-tda2x-131016&HQS=pro-ap-tda2x-b-lp
  • There is a sample system with TDA2x presented by TI on facebook; https://www.facebook.com/texasinstruments/posts/10151903239901358
  • There is a white paper on TDA2x; TDA2x ADAS System-on-Chip - OCTOBER 2013
  • There is a product preview paper on TDA2x; 595-ADAS Applications Processor TDA2x System-on-Chip Technical Brief – OCTOBER 2013
  • There is an evaluation board for TDA2x; (misc sources, e.g. TDA2x ADAS System-on-Chip)
  • The Advanced Driver Assistance (ADAS) Solutions Guide describes TDA2x Vision 28 on page 5 and 6, e.g. with labeling it as a device using a 28 nm semiconductor structure size.
  • TI Gives Sight to Vision-Enabled Automotive Technologies - OCTOBER 2013
• TDA2x software
  • TI Vision SDK, Optimized Vision Libraries for ADAS Systems - APRIL 2014

• ADAS Processors

• ADAS Processor Videos (as an integral part of the TI web pages)

• There are videos on YouTube and on the TI domain:
  • TDA2x SoC for ADAS - Surround View Application; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWbcN9Y-Lnw
  • Introducing the TDA2x SoC for ADAS; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzknClJKpBg
  • TDA2x SoC for ADAS - Front Camera Application; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_ochsyVuUA
  • TDA2x Evaluation Platform Tour; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI5X5ndTZN0 ; http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/video/Portal.tsp?entryid=0_00ag9mtw&lang=en&DCMP=pro-ap-tda2x-131016&HQS=pro-ap-tda2x-pr-v2
  • TDAx Scalability: TDA2x Surround View with Front Camera Analytics and TDA3x Surround View