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Vendor:
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Category:
DSP Core
ConnX 120 DSP
Compact and low energy consumption to provide the performance you need in radar, lidar, and communications processing at ultra-low area and energy cost
Overview
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
Specifications
Identity
Part Number
ConnX 120
Vendor
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Type
Silicon IP
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Provider
HQ:
USA
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