S32V234 Vision and Sensor Fusion Processor

NXP Semiconductors S32V234 Vision and Sensor Fusion Processor is designed to support computation-intensive applications for image processing. The S32V234 Processor Series offers an Embedded Image Sensor Processor (ISP), powerful 3D GPU, dual APEX-2 vision accelerators, and integrated security. Part of the NXP SafeAssure™ Program, the S32V234 Processor targets ISO 26262 ASIL B Advanced Driver-Assistance System (ADAS) applications, such as pedestrian detection, object detection, lane departure warning, smart head beam control, and traffic sign recognition. The S32V234 Processor is engineered for automotive-grade reliability, functional safety and security measures to support vehicle and industrial automation.

The S32V234 Processor Series brings a platform approach to safety critical design by deploying a heterogeneous mix of CPU, GPU, and image processors. The CPU core platform includes a quad-core 1GHz ARM® Cortex®-A53 along with an ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller. The ARM Cortex-A53 CPU is a 64-bit (ARMv8) core that offers balanced performance along with low power and cost-effective die area. To support reliability requirements, the processors all have error correcting codes (ECC) to protect data and instructions to the processor caches, the internal 4MB scratchpad memory, and the DRAM memory.

The S32V234 also includes a crypto processor to speed security transaction as security is fast becoming a critical function to protect internal IP as well as protect against external intrusion attacks. The on-chip Image Signal Processor (ISP) is used for camera image pre-processing. The ISP is optimized for functions like dead pixel processing, correction of geometric distortions, High Dynamic Range (HDR) processing, image scaling, and color correction. The ISP has a programmable architecture and can adjust to any kind of image sensor.

The S32V234 Processor Series has a complete enablement platform supported by S32 Design Studio IDE for Vision which includes a compiler, debugger, Vision SDK, Linux BSP, and graph tools.

• Quad Arm Cortex-A53 cores running up to 1GHz, Plus M4 core up to 133MHz
• Dual APEX-2 vision accelerator cores enabled by OpenCL™, APEX-CV and APEX graph tool
• Supports ISO 26262 functional safety up to ASIL-C, IEC 61508 and DO 178 applications
• 3D GPU (GC3000) with OpenCL 1.2 EP 2.0, OpenGL ES 3.0, OpenVG 1.1
• Hardware security encryption on CSE2
• Embedded Image Sensor Processing (ISP) for HDR, color conversion, tone mapping, etc. enabled by ISP graph tool
• MIPI CSI2 and parallel image sensor interfaces
• 4MB on chip system RAM with end to end ECC on all memories
• DRAM controller support for DDR3 / DDR3L / LPDDR2
• -40°C to 125°C (junction temperature) operation
• 621 FC-BGA 17mm x 17mm, 0.65mm pitch

• Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
• Avionics
• Robotics
• Machine Learning
• Sensor fusion computing in communication with a radar MCU