Cadence Expands Tensilica Vision Family with Radar Accelerator and New DSPs Optimized for Automotive Applications
28 Febbraio 2024 - 4:45PM
Business Wire
Highlights:
- Single DSPs for embedded vision, radar, lidar and AI processing
boost performance while providing significant area, power and cost
savings
- New radar accelerator provides a highly programmable hardware
solution for offloading 4D imaging radar workloads, increasing
performance
- Designed for sensor fusion processing in multi-sensor
automotive, drone, robotics and autonomous vehicle system
designs
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today expanded its
Tensilica IP portfolio to address the increasing computational
requirements associated with automotive sensor fusion applications.
The new high-performance Cadence® Tensilica® Vision 331 DSP and
Vision 341 DSP combine vision, radar, lidar and AI processing in a
single DSP for multi-modal, sensor-based system designs, delivering
the best energy efficiency in the smallest area. When paired with
the new Cadence Tensilica Vision 4DR Accelerator optimized for 4D
imaging radar applications, customers can achieve even greater
radar performance and higher energy efficiency. A major automotive
SoC provider and early access customer has selected the Vision 341
DSP for its next-generation automotive SoC, demonstrating customer
demand for these new solutions.
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Cadence expanded its Tensilica IP
portfolio with two new Vision DSPs and a radar accelerator to
address automotive sensor fusion applications. The new
high-performance Cadence Tensilica Vision 331 DSP and Vision 341
DSP combine vision, radar, lidar and AI processing in a single DSP
for multi-modal, sensor-based system designs, delivering the best
energy efficiency in the smallest area. (Graphic: Business
Wire)
“Automotive architectures continue to evolve with the current
focus on software-defined vehicles and the growing prevalence of
driver and occupancy monitoring systems,” said Raphaël Da Silva,
Technology and Market Analyst at Yole Group. “With the
automotive race towards eyes off, a mix of radars, cameras and
Lidars are necessary to ensure optimal safety performance in all
conditions. There are more than 40 sensors in a vehicle today, and
that number will only continue to grow. Having these capabilities
in a single, highly programmable DSP with a broad ecosystem is
advantageous, particularly as imaging and 4D radar are expected to
grow at a >40% CAGR from 2023 to 2028 and >131% for in-cabin
use as noted in the Yole Intelligence Radar for Automotive 2023
report.”
The new Vision 341 DSP and Vision 331 DSPs combine the proven
Tensilica ConnX and Vision instruction-set architectures to offer
SoC providers for automotive, drone, robotics and autonomous
vehicle systems a highly programmable, single-DSP solution for
image sensing, radar, lidar and AI workloads. Other features and
benefits include:
- The 1024-bit Vision 341 DSP provides 2X multiply-accumulate
(MAC) capability compared to the Vision 331 DSP while delivering
the best performance and energy efficiency compared to GPUs or
CPUs.
- For certain 4D imaging radar workloads, the 512-bit Vision 331
DSP offers up to 4X performance improvement over the Vision 230 DSP
in radar boost mode, while the Vision 341 DSP offers up to 6X
performance improvement compared to the Vision 230 DSP.
- When paired with the new DSPs for 4D imaging radar
applications, the Vision 4DR accelerator offers 3X greater
performance and up to 6X greater performance/area advantage
compared to a Vision 341 DSP alone and 5X greater performance
compared to a Vision 331 DSP alone.
- The new Vision DSPs deliver up to 2X computer vision
performance improvements for computer vision filter and NMS
algorithms, as well as AI improvements for quantization and
depthwise separable convolution.
The Vision 341 and Vision 331 DSPs support the Tensilica
Instruction Extension (TIE) language, allowing customers to
customize the instruction set. The Cadence NeuroWeave™ Software
Development Kit (SDK) provides neural network support for both
DSPs. In addition, the Vision 341 and Vision 331 DSPs support more
than 1700 OpenCV-based vision library functions, SLAM Library,
Point Cloud Library (PCL), Radar library, Nature DSP library,
OpenCL and the Halide compiler for computer vision, imaging, radar
and lidar applications. Both cores are automotive ready with ASIL-B
hardware random faults and ASIL-D systematic fault
certification.
“With the growing prevalence of vision transformers, automotive
SoC and systems companies need best-in-class performance for sensor
fusion applications. Increasingly, they are seeking a highly
flexible single-DSP solution for computer vision, radar and lidar
with AI processing,” said David Glasco, VP of R&D for the
Silicon Solutions Group at Cadence. “As the leading provider of
vision and radar DSP IP, we’re extremely well positioned to
capitalize on this growing need by offering our customers the best
of both worlds in a single DSP with optional radar acceleration for
emerging 4D radar applications.”
Customer Endorsements
“As a leading developer of SoCs for the ADAS
market, Dreamchip sees growing use of 4D imaging radar in the near
future. We continue to use Cadence Tensilica Vision DSPs in our
SoCs and welcome the new DSPs that can accommodate cameras, radar
and 4D radar acceleration while offering the highest performance in
the smallest area.” Jens Benndorf, Managing Director, CEO of
Dreamchip
“SemiDrive continues to develop innovative SoCs for the
infotainment market segments, and selecting an efficient processor
and flexible DSP is crucial to our success. We continue to use
Cadence Tensilica Vision DSPs in our products and welcome the new
DSPs that can accommodate both cameras and radar. Additionally,
Cadence’s extensive framework of software libraries and strong
partner ecosystem enable rapid deployment for fast time to market.”
Eugene Wang, General Manager, Global Automotive Business at
SemiDrive
Availability
Tensilica Vision DSPs support Cadence’s Intelligent System
Design™ strategy, enabling SoC design excellence. The new Vision
331 DSP and Vision 341 DSP are available now, while the Vision 4DR
accelerator will be in general availability in the second quarter
of 2024. For more information on the Vision 331 DSP and Vision 341
DSP, please visit: https://www.cadence.com/go/vision-331-pr or
https://www.cadence.com/go/vision-341-pr. More information on the
Vision 4DR accelerator can be found at
https://www.cadence.com/go/vision-4dr-accelerator-pr
About Cadence
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more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company
applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to
deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into
reality. Cadence customers are the world’s most innovative
companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips
to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications,
including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications,
automotive, mobile, aerospace, industrial and healthcare. For nine
years in a row, Fortune magazine has named Cadence one of the 100
Best Companies to Work For. Learn more at cadence.com.
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