Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe has announced that the MB86R12 ‘Emerald-P' graphics SoC will be produced to AEC-Q100. It is, says the company, the world's first SoC with an integrated APIX2 interface, the high-speed link for video and control in automotive applications. The SoC combines an ARM Cortex-A9 processor core integrated ARM-Neon-SIMD engine. There is also a programmable shader GPU, the company's image processor and the interface from Inova Semiconductor. The GPU supports OpenGL ES 2.0 and can run 2D- and 3D operations in parallel. Video-stream inputs can be pre-processed with the internal image processor, which enhances the visibility of details in over- and under-exposed video frames by intelligent contrast and brightness control. There are four video inputs that can run in parallel to support camera-based applications. The device enables a viewpoint-dependent, 360º wrap-around-view system by mapping the frames of the four video cameras onto a 3D mesh. The camera-based application assists with views of blind spots and multiple views of the car's immediate environment. Operating frequency is 530MHz and supports up to 1Gbyte of DDR2-800 and DDR3-1066 SDRAM; NAND, NOR and managed NAND (mNAND) flash memory. The 2D graphics engine supports fast rotation, blending, scaling and copy operations for cover flows, text and needles.
