Vendor: Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Category: DSP Core

Tensilica ConnX 120 DSP

Compact and low energy consumption to provide the performance you need in radar, lidar, and communications processing at ultra-lo…

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Overview

Compact and low energy consumption to provide the performance you need in radar, lidar, and communications processing at ultra-low area and energy cost

The Cadence Tensilica ConnX 120 DSP provides ultra-low power and a small footprint, balanced with high performance for radar and lidar processing. The extensibility and configurability of the ConnX 120 DSP, combined with the built-in accelerations, are optimized for imaging radar and lidar sensing. The ConnX 120 DSP is certified as ISO 26262:2018 ASIL-compliant and is suitable for use in safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications.

Key features

  • Certified ISO 26262:2018 ASIL-compliant
  • VLIW parallelism issuing multiple concurrent operations per cycle
  • 256-bit SIMD
  • Up to 64 MAC
  • Built-in accelerations for radar, lidar and communications processing
  • Support for real and complex, fixed- and floating-point, scalar and vector data types
  • Performance-enhanced complex data processing
  • IEEE 754 vector floating-point (HP, SP, DP)
  • TIE for easy extension and further performance enhancement
  • Optimized libraries and application examples for easy software development

Block Diagram

ConnX 120 block diagram

Benefits

  • ISO 26262:2018 Compliant: Certified for ASIL-compliant and equipped with both hardware and software safety mechanisms
  • Scalability: ISA-compatible with high-performance ConnX 120 DSP and Vision DSPs
  • Software Portability: Easy software migration and DSP scalability with easy software migration and DSP scalability with Vision DSP family
  • Ultra Small and Low Power: High performance with low area and power cost
  • Extensible and Configurable: Customizable instruction set promotes differentiation and performance enhancement

Applications

  • Automotive,
  • Communications,
  • Consumer Electronics,
  • Data Processing,
  • Industrial and Medical,
  • Military/Civil Aerospace,
  • Others

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Specifications

Identity

Part Number
ConnX 120
Vendor
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Type
Silicon IP

Provider

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
HQ: USA
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