Ambarella, Inc Announces During CES the Latest Additions to Its CV3-AD Family of Automotive Ai Domain Controllers, The CV3-AD635 and Cv3-AD655 Systems-On-Chip
January 09, 2024 at 05:00 am EST
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Ambarella, Inc. announced during CES the latest additions to its CV3-AD family of automotive AI domain controllers?the CV3-AD635 and CV3-AD655 systems-on-chip (SoCs). The new CV3-AD635 supports a sensing suite that includes multiple cameras and radars to enable mainstream L2+ feature sets, such as highway autopilot and automated parking, in addition to meeting the GSR2 and NCAP standards. Additionally, the CV3-AD655 enables advanced L2+ (also called L2++) with urban autopilot, as well as support for additional cameras, radars and other sensors. With the previously announced CV3-AD685 SoC, which targets L3/L4 systems?along with the China-focused CV72AQ SoC?the CV3-AD family now covers the full range of AD and ADAS solutions, from mainstream to premium passenger vehicles. Additionally, this is the automotive industry?s broadest performance range for any software-compatible AI domain control family, spanning an 18x AI performance increase from the CV72AQ to the CV3-AD685. All SoCs in the CV3-AD family feature Ambarella?s CVflow® 3.0 AI accelerator. This highly efficient, proprietary AI engine combines neural network acceleration?including support for the latest NN architectures such as transformers and bird?s-eye-view (BEV) networks?along with general vector processing capabilities for traditional computer vision and efficient radar processing. The CVflow?s high AI processing performance and power efficiency enable CV3-AD customers to design vehicles with rich feature sets based on safe and reliable AD and ADAS capabilities, while reducing thermal-management cost and complexity. That significantly lower power consumption also allows customers to deploy electric vehicles with smaller batteries, reducing cost and weight; or to alternatively increase the EV range using the same battery. As with the rest of this family, the CV3-AD635 and CV3-AD655 are fabricated in Samsung?s advanced 5nm automotive process technology. Ambarella?s CV3-AD SoC portfolio meets the processing requirements for automotive OEMs? entire catalogs, from mainstream to premium models, by scaling the performance of each members? compute engines. For example, the CV3-AD655 offers double, and CV3-AD685 six times, the NN processing performance of the CV3-AD635. Likewise, the CV3-AD635 integrates four Arm Cortex A78AE CPU cores, and the CV3-AD655 eight cores. A dual-core, lockstep pair of Cortex-R52 CPUs is also included in both the CV3-AD635 and CV3-AD655. Additionally, these SoCs target ASIL-B at the chip level, via an ASIL-D safety island. Also integrated on-chip is a GPU to render 3D surround views.Easy portability across the entire CV3-AD family is achieved by sharing the same architectural approach, SDK and tools. Additionally, Ambarella?s full software stack for autonomous and semi-autonomous driving is optimized for all CV3-AD family members, as the stack and SoCs were designed in conjunction. This allows automotive OEMs and tier-1s to leverage engineering investments across their full vehicle line-ups, while achieving high AI performance that supports the latest NNs architectures along with best-in-class power efficiency.
The CV3-AD family?s on-chip image signal processor provides outstanding imaging in low-light conditions, including high-dynamic-range processing to extract maximum image detail in high-contrast scenes. These features enhance the SoCs? AI and computer vision capabilities, while delivering clear video for human viewing. All CV3-AD family members also provide high-resolution video recording and streaming at very low bit rates with efficient H.264 video encoding.
Ambarella, Inc. is a developer of low-power system-on-a-chip (SoC) semiconductors that provide artificial intelligence processing, image signal processing and video compression. The Company serves human-viewing applications with video and image processors for enterprise, public infrastructure and home applications, such as Internet protocol, security cameras, sports cameras, wearables, aerial drones, and aftermarket automotive video recorders. It is focused on creating AI technology that enables edge devices to visually perceive the environment and make decisions based on the data collected from cameras and, other types of sensors. Its CVflow-architecture supports a range of computer vision algorithms, including object detection, classification and tracking, semantic and instance segmentation, image processing, stereo object detection, terrain mapping, and face recognition. Its CVflow processes other sensor modalities, including lidar, radar, time of flight, thermal and near-infrared.
Ambarella, Inc Announces During CES the Latest Additions to Its CV3-AD Family of Automotive Ai Domain Controllers, The CV3-AD635 and Cv3-AD655 Systems-On-Chip