SoC ARM for cars with 8 cores and 5G

What started out as something as simple as an electronic mechanism for raising and lowering the window has evolved over time and today many cars are nothing more than computers with wheels whose experience is different. than that of a conventional car. This is why APU or SoC manufacturers no longer design only for PCs and mobiles, but also for cars, as is the case with the new Samsung Exynos Auto V7.

The Internet of Things is based on the fact that all devices are connected to each other and the vast majority to the Internet, this includes cars which in recent years have integrated on-board computers with advanced hardware and connectivity. Internet. Well, Samsung has just presented its new communication solutions for cars, Exynos Auto T5123

, and more importantly, its new SoC as the main processor for vehicles, the Exynos Auto V7.

Samsung Exynos Auto V7

One of the functions of a smart car is what is called infotainment, which is to integrate the functions of a PostPC device in the vehicle and is also the central processor of the on-board computer in the car. And what does the Samsung Exynos V7 bring inside? Good to start 8 Cortex A76 cores a 1.5 GHz and an ARM Mali G76 11-core GPU, which is responsible for transmitting the image to the various screens apart from the main panel, up to a total of four. Regarding the number of supported cameras in the car, this SoC supports up to 12 of them.

Since we are talking about an SoC for a car, it must have unique functions for them, the image signal processor supports technologies such as bad pixel correction, dynamic range compression and geometric distortion correction to convert the images captured by the cameras into images without noise or distortion of the environment around the car. And if you’re one of those people who like to thunder inside the car, Samsung has included 3 HiFi 4 audio processors

for excellent sound quality. All accompanied by 32 GB of LPDDR4X with a bandwidth of 68 GB / s.

We also cannot forget about security, which is the key to these SoCs, which is why the Exynos Auto V7 has a security processor isolated from other components for operations with sensitive data, where the master key is programmed only once at the factory and to which systems have been added to prevent it from being copied to an external device.

The first 5G modem for cars

In this case, we find a communication module, which is composed of an SoC whose task is to grant 5G connectivity

to our vehicle, which will allow us to access this network from anywhere and have the benefits. With its speed of 5.1 gigabits per second, this is enough to offer passengers services such as video on demand, videoconference calls from anywhere and even have traffic information updated in real time.

The SoC is made up of Cortex-A55 cores, uses memory LPDDR4X, communicates with the main processor of the on-board computer via a PCI Express interface and has an integrated global satellite navigation system. Its availability? At the moment it’s in production, but according to Samsung, this will be the first time we’ll see 5G in cars.

The third chip presented by Samsung is the S2CPS01, which is a chip that manages the energy in the on-board computer and with which Samsung obtained the ISO 26262 of 2019 and the ASIL-B certification of 2021. That is to say that it is a PMIC and it is that it should be borne in mind that energy management is an electric car is a very important element.