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For those of you who missed the NetSpeed Systems, Imagination Technologies webinar, “Alexa, can you help me build a better SoC”, you’ll be happy to hear that the session was recorded and can still be viewed (see link at the bottom of this page). I’ll warn you now however, that this was a high-bandwidth session packed with information, so much so that I had to listen through it several times to absorb everything. Here’s a condensed version for those looking for the salient points.

SoCs for autonomous automotive applications are some of the most complex ICs designed on the planet. These designs must fuse data from multiple sensors (RADAR, LIDAR, ultra-sonic, video, cameras) in real time, while also dealing with ultra-high functional safety and security requirements. Real-time processing of multiple different data streams implies a heterogeneous mixture of CPUs, DSPs, GPUs, ISPs, and dedicated specialty hardware accelerators all communicating with each other using a sophisticated network-on-chip (NoC) capable of handling coherent memory and coherent I/O access.

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