(iTers News) -Texas Instruments Inc., or TI stakes out car electronics as a next bread basket. As car dashboard system is going digital coming built with dozens of silicon contents like CPU, GPUs, and DSPs, TI has more than others to supply the market.

Ford’s SYNC in-vehicle communications and entertainment system is a prime example of how TI has addressed the car electronics market with a wealth of its chip solutions.

The newly-built Ford Sync 3 is built with TI’s flagship OMAP 5 processor, WiLink8Q wireless combo chip platform, power management chips, and FPD-Link III serializer/deserializer wired connected solutions. 

TI demonstrated three more chips -Jacinto 6X and TDA2x and TDA3X SoC solutions- at CES 2015 to show how these powerful video processors power a new generation of in-vehicle car infotainment system and ADAS, or advanced drivers assistant system.

Jacinto 6X is a high-end version of the Jacinto 6 family that comes integrated with a vision processing DSP chip for ADAS.

Designed to work as an engine for a new generation of in-vehicle car infotainment system, the Jacinto 6X is built around its flagship OMPA 5 processor, but on top of that, it comes embedded with a DSP engine to power ADAS as well an embedded vision code.

For example, TI demonstrated how the Jacinto 6X processor not only process video inputs from ADAS’ four surround view cameras ad one front-facing camera and but also render them on three display screen on an in-vehicle car infotainment system, a head mounted display and a digital instrumental meter cluster.

“This chip had an infotainment processor and DSP ADAS process cram on a single piece of silicon. This system can process 5 cameras -4 one megapixel 720 p SD cameras for surround view and one front-facing camera for ADAS. This system will perform pedestrian detection as well as traffic sign recognition,” Mahmut Cifcti systems and software architecture automotive infotainment with TI.

TI plans to start volume production of the Jacinto 6X processor sometime this year.

The TDA2x and TDA3x chips are designed to power ADAS and surround view systems. The TDA2X is an engine to power high-end ADAS system, while the TDA3X aims at low-end system.

The TDA2X chip comes built with two ARM Cortex-A15 processors, two C66x DSP co-processors, 1080p video coprocessor, two SGX544 3D GPU, an EVA, or embedded vision engine, and two ARM Cortex-M4 IPU, or image processor unit. The chip processes video inputs from four surround view cameras and one front camera and mix them into one image.    

“Each of two DSP cores run surround view algorithm and on top of that TDA2X, we run Lotus algorithm using a fifth camera which is a front camera looking for pedestrian detection and traffic sign recognition. We have also an EVE, embedded vision engine which accelerate vision applications,” said Martin Mueller, systems engineer member, technical staff perception & analytical lab with TI.

“On Top of that surround view system, we have also an ultra-sonic sensor integration, a 3D perception technology that helps drivers to safely park their car telling them there is an object, “ he added.

According to him,  the cameras on the surround view system detects what is on the back, and an ultrasonic sensor can take distance to and from the objects and show it on top of the surround view system by converting it into the image.